The Signal
Child struck near Sulphur Springs
Multiple parents have voiced concerns about safety issues when crossing the street near a Canyon Country elementary school after a young girl was hit by a car and went underneath it on Monday afternoon during school pickup. The area in question is set...
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Special Olympics hosts Santa Clarita Spring Games at Hart High
The Hart High School football field and gymnasium were transformed into a hub of basketball and bocce on Saturday for the Santa Clarita Spring Games hosted by the Special Olympics of Southern California. Teams from across Southern California,...
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West Ranch High hosts ‘Run with Dogs’
The West Ranch High School track and field team’s fourth annual Run With Dogs event was in full swing on Sunday morning at the Santa Clarita Valley Animal Care Center with some dogs getting the opportunity to be socialized and get some exercise. The...
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Slithery handling
The Southern Pacific rattlesnake, once set in the center of the semi-circle of Young Marines, didn’t strike, just as its handler had predicted — but its rattler was in overdrive. In fact, the snake rattled for several minutes while Cary Quashen, CEO...
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LASD: Two arrested in e-bike assault on sheriff’s deputy
Two teens riding dirt e-bikes have been arrested following what L.A. County Sheriff’s Department officials are calling an intentional assault on a peace officer, in which one suspect veered into a motorcycle deputy, causing a collision on Thursday...
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State: Bear with us, again
A bear was spotted hanging out in a tree in the backyard of a home near Lost Canyon Road and Sand Canyon Road a few blocks from Sulphur Springs Community School on Thursday afternoon. The bear — which is tagged and has made news before, as recently as...
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City bus in 4-vehicle crash
A Santa Clarita city bus, a gravel truck and two white sedans were involved in a collision at Centre Pointe Parkway and Golden Valley Road, injuring more than a dozen people, one of them critically, on Wednesday morning, according to an official with...
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Teacher Tribute turns 42
Continuing a decades-old Santa Clarita Valley tradition, the SCV Education Foundation welcomed educators and aspiring teachers Friday evening to celebrate local education under one roof during the 42nd annual Teacher Tribute. Representatives of all...
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False bomb threat delays theme park opening
Six Flags Magic Mountain was placed on a shutdown after receiving bomb threats around 8:07 a.m. on Monday, according to an official with the California Highway Patrol Newhall-area Office. There was no evidence found that the threat was authentic, and...
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Early starts for water safety
At the Santa Clarita Aquatic Center’s Water Safety Day, many of the kids who attended were so young, they didn’t yet know how to swim — and organizers say that early start is what makes it so important. Recreation Coordinator Jacob Acosta said that...
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Calarts celebrates creativity
Embracing the creative chaos, California Institute of the Arts hosted its second annual “MAYhem” festival on campus on Saturday. Through three days of performances, exhibitions and lectures from Friday to Sunday, Calarts students, families and the...
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City brings ‘the Force’ at ‘Star Wars Day’
The city of Santa Clarita hosted a screening of “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” to celebrate Star Wars Day at Central Park on Monday evening. The crowd was filled with Princess Leias, Darth Vaders, and Jedi to celebrate the franchise and its...
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The Relay continues on
When the booths went up at Relay for Life Saturday, most of Santa Clarita’s Relay community knew the drill. Saturday marked the 28th Relay for Life of Santa Clarita, and this year, with one of its most ambitious fundraising targets yet — at $375,000 —...
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Child & Family hosts annual fundrasier
Wine, music, food and community were just some of the main ingredients for a fun-filled afternoon at the Child & Family Center’s 37th annual “Taste of the Town” fundraiser. With a crowd of over 1,000 attendees over the age of 21, about 30 booths each...
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City celebrates Dia de los Niños
Libros, música, cultura, comunidad, y celebración was at the forefront of the city of Santa Clarita’s Dia de los Niños/ Dia de los Libros event last Saturday at the Canyon Country Jo Anne Darcy Library branch. In celebration with the nationwide...
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State of the Hart District
In celebration of 80 years of local education, the William S. Hart Union High School District held its State of the District event on Wednesday at Canyon High School, highlighting achievements and the district’s Strategic Plan to ensure student success...
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SCV Senior Center shines on, at Gala
The Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center’s Bella Vida ballroom was possibly the shiniest it’s ever been Saturday. The Senior Center’s 50th anniversary Golden Gala, a reimagined version of its annual Celebrity Waiter fundraiser, let attendees interpret...
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Fine art, fine wine at Le Chêne
The courtyard of Le Chêne French Cuisine was bursting with artistry and creativity at the 12th annual Santa Clarita Artists Association’s art show on Sunday. Attendees enjoyed the day as they walked through the courtyard and visited different artists’...
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Saugus Cafe battle back to county
A federal judge ruled that a family claiming it’s getting cheated out of its restaurant business can pursue its lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court, in a motion issued Friday. An ongoing dispute between the Mercado family and the late Harry Arklin’s...
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City updates big-budget goals
Santa Clarita City Manager Ken Striplin shared updates on several capital improvement projects and the city’s spending plan Tuesday in a meeting of the city’s Budget Committee. Striplin said the city is about six months into the process, which usually...
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Henry Mayo honors donors
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital raised its flag late Thursday morning for an honor that spurred a crowd of hospital employees to its front lawn: National Donate Life Month. The ceremony honoring organ donors featured brief speeches from HMNH leadership,...
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Walking in nature’s footsteps
Judy Mcclure became a docent at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center in 2003 following her husband’s footsteps. “He spent so much time here that I decided to become a docent so I could see him once in a while,” she said with a light chuckle during a...
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The Relay Rally to rely on
In the courtyard between Old Town Newhall’s parking structure and some of the area’s main attractions, like the Laemmle Theater, purple Relay for Life booths were strategically positioned as a dragnet for reeling in passersby Saturday. It wasn’t...
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30th annual Cowboy Festival
The western edge of the U.S. continent was the site of a slow-moving cultural and political explosion that lasted hundreds of years. These days, we call that moment in history the Wild West, and if Santa Clarita’s Cowboy Festival is anything to go by,...
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The cowboys are coming to town
The city of Santa Clarita’s Senses Block Party returned for the 2026 season on Thursday night with this month’s theme titled “On the Ranch” as a pre celebration to the 30th annual Cowboy Festival set for this weekend. Throughout Main Street, the free...
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A celebration of legacy at COC
The College of the Canyons culinary program is all about giving the students driven by initiative exactly what they need to succeed as working chefs, bakers and sommeliers. That’s according to Gary Cusumano, whose $1 million donation to the college’s...
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City of Hope’s Friendly Valley chapter celebrates 50 years
It’s tradition for cancer patients finishing their final round of chemotherapy treatment to ring a brass bell before they leave the hospital. Kelly Folliott, a member of the Friendly Valley Senior Living Community — and a member of the Friendly Valley...
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A jolly ol’ celebration
Crossing the pond from cities like Liverpool and London, the city of Santa Clarita welcomed the “Celebrate” series back with England at the Canyon Country Community Center on Friday. Minding the gap between various
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‘Tree-rific’ time in the city
April is often a month of celebrating environmental conservation and sustainability, and holidays such as Arbor Day help reinforce those efforts. Arbor Day, which falls on April 24 this year, is the observance of planting and appreciating
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History in the making
The William S. Hart Park Museum is a centuryold Spanish colonial revival home at the top of a hill overlooking all of Newhall. At one time, everything in it belonged to the silent film star cowboy whose name pops up in various places
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Goslings’ morning commute
Traffic briefly stopped along a major Santa Clarita roadway on Tuesday after a family of geese attempted to cross all six
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Hart district leader honored for student wellness supports
Adolescents face a number of challenges when navigating life in high school. There’s the pressure of achieving high grades, while simultaneously filling up their afternoons with sports or other extracurricular activities to have a better chance of...
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Truck route closed to clear debris
The northbound truck route connector between Interstate 5 and State Route 14 remained closed Tuesday morning as crews cleared the roadway from an early-morning crash, according to a California Highway Patrol traffic management official. The CHP...
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City hosts Splash ’N Dash
It was chaos at the Santa Clarita Aquatics Center on Saturday morning, but in a good way. There was a line of people wrapped around the main entrance of the pool gate, waiting to be let in as the day grew
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Crown Fire burns up near Acton
Firefighters were called to a second-alarm brush fire that broke out at the 6800 block of Soledad Canyon Road in Acton, dubbed the Crown Fire, and quickly grew to over 280 acres as evacuation orders were issued on
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Hazmat responds to electric vehicle fire at Audi dealership
An electric vehicle located at the Audi Valencia dealership caught fire and prompted shelterin-place orders while the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s HAZMAT team responded to the scene on Wednesday evening. First responders were dispatched to the...
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A flood of furry friends
Castaic’s Los Angeles Countyrun animal shelter has accepted several dogs from county-run shelters in Lancaster and Palmdale to help them make way for
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Preliminary list of congressional candidates released
Santa Clarita is made up of volunteers who continuously make an effort in being at the forefront of the community, and on Saturday the Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley saluted volunteers representing 23 nonprofit organizations from throughout the...
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Animal Care to the rescue
.The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control rescued 400 dogs and 300 cats from a property in Lake Hughes Friday morning, according to a news release from the
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Resilience and style
Standing in the events courtyard at the top of Blomgren Ranch on a hot March evening last week, the Met Gala Santa Clarita Valley’s annual fundraiser guests were Victorian Steampunk personified – absurd, regally elegant, or both. Met Gala SCV has...
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LASD seeks public help with investigation into B&G Club employee charged with sexual assault
Detectives with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Bureau took an additional step Wednesday in asking for the public’s help with their investigation into allegations of a sexual assault of a minor by an employee of the Santa Clarita...
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‘Heart and unity’
Special education students throughout the William S. Hart Union High School District joined together for the 14th annual Hart Games at Valencia High School on Monday morning. The energy was high and the heart and unity were felt throughout Valencia...
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Lessons at ‘The Lucky Cup’
Samantha Nuñez has been a part of the Transitional Learning Center at Hart High School for about four years. The program has helped her navigate life after high school. It’s taught her how to find jobs, manage a budget and learn other skills needed for
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Bouquet Canyon’s battle for survival
Up Bouquet Canyon Road, a little past Central Park, a pair of business parks have proprietors saying their businesses are struggling to survive, thanks to an 11-month closure of Bouquet Canyon Road. The closure, part of a plan approved by the Santa...
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SCV Historical Society celebrates 50 years
The Santa Clarita Valley’s Historical Society celebrated 50 years of preserving local history with its “SCVHS50: Live from Santa Clarita, It’s Saturday Night!” gala on Saturday at the Canyon Country Community Center. Approximately 250 people,...
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Bicyclist dies in crash with bus
A bicyclist was killed in a collision with a city of Santa Clarita Transit bus in Castaic early Wednesday morning, according to an official with the California Highway Patrol Newhall-area Office. The man was approximately 57 years old, according to...
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Community celebrates Holi
Castaic Lake, a place where people typically go to cool off during hot summer days, was instead filled with multicolored powders in celebration of Holi on Saturday, a Hindu festival of colors that marks the arrival of spring. As members of the...
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Students get real talk about the future
Bowman High School got an opportunity to learn about adulthood during JCI Santa Clarita’s seventh “Get Real: Adulting 101” financial literacy event at Child & Family Center on Wednesday morning. About 70 students were able to walk around 12 booths and...
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WISH upon a few Hart stars
Whether it was a vocal performance or a dance number, or playing the guitar or saxophone, this year’s Hart District’s Got Talent, hosted by the WISH Education Foundation, saw the highest number of performers since the event’s inception. The Saugus...
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‘Hearts for Heroes’
Carousel Ranch returned with its annual Open House and Pancake breakfast with this year’s theme “Hearts for Heroes” on Saturday. The event, which was expected to draw about 75 people, invited guests to enjoy fresh flapjacks made by students in the...
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Armed standoff in Saugus
A report of gunfire near an elementary school in Saugus led to a barricaded situation involving a mental health crisis and a soft lockdown of that school and others on Wednesday morning. At about 11 a.m. — two hours after the initial incident — a man...
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A growing tradition
Saugus High School’s Lunar New Year Festival is only three years old, but for some students, it’s already become an event that’s helped to define their high school experience. That’s because the festival – a showcase of song and dance performances by...
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2 killed in crash with county truck
A collision involving a car and a public works truck killed two men on Newhall Avenue and Sierra Highway in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. Los Angeles County Medical Examiner...
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The buzz around campus
College of the Canyons became the only Southern California community college affiliated with Bee Campus USA last week, pledging to become a better place for pollinators of all stripes. The Bee Campus USA program is run by the Xerces Society, an...
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Hats on for soup
Bridge to Home’s 2026 Soup for the Soul Gala set a high bar for dress with its “Off to the races” theme, and guests delivered in spades. Around 250 attendees in high, flowering derby hats and straw boaters packed the Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center...
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Festival of lights, camera, action
There were no million-dollar outfits, or thousands of screaming fans waiting to catch a glimpse of their favorite movie stars on the red carpet like at the Academy Awards. But the applause inside Valencia High School’s theater on Friday was just as...
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County lawyers file lawsuit targeting game company
Lawyers for L.A. County have filed suit alleging Roblox, a billion-dollar gaming company claiming to be the nation’s largest for kids, is failing to protect children from online predators, according to county officials Thursday. The move follows a...
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The Signal gets special visit from wolf
The Signal had a special visit by a furry friend on Thursday morning. However, the furry friend was a wolf named Wahkan. His owners, Colette and Paul Pondella from Shadowland Foundation, a wolf rescue near Lake Hughes, brought him in for his...
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A celebration of unity
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, historian and author, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Eleven years later, “Negro History Week,” coined by Woodson, was founded in a week that entailed both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick...
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Old traditions, new place
The inaugural Lunar New Year Gala hosted by the Santa Clarita Valley Chinese Culture Association was in full swing at the Newhall Family Theatre on Sunday evening. People who attended were greeted by a small market with various booths including a...
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Yelling, screaming then stabbing
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his stepfather after the stepfather’s body was found with multiple stab wounds at a home on the 32700 block of Ridge Top Lane in Castaic on Saturday afternoon, according to a Nixle alert from the Los...
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Kings & Queens
The William S. Hart Union High School District hosted its firstever Superbowl of Chess tournament last weekend at Castaic High School. A total of 62 students ranging from junior high to high school participated in a friendly competition for a chance...
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An Epicurean experience
The gods were smiling on Canyon Springs Community School Friday afternoon. After hours of preparation, beginning bright and early at 8:30 a.m. — following months of preparation that’d begun back in the fall — the school’s sixth-grade class had created...
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Classrooms where it all adds up
The William S. Hart Union High School District saw a gain in mathematics for the 2025 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress where student performance improved at every grade level tested. Canyon High School and Academy of the...
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Students against ICE
Hundreds of Canyon High School students walked out of campus in a demonstration to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday morning. Students held posters with messages and multicolored flags representing Latin America, as they walked...
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LASD reports juvenile suspect arrested after crash in Valencia leaves 2 dead
A local couple was killed in a three-vehicle traffic collision Friday evening at Bouquet Canyon Road and Newhall Ranch Road, according to officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. The two people were married and were with their adult...
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Newhall district sees student progress in midyear review
The Newhall School District governing board received a presentation on the Local Control Accountability Plan’s midyear review during last week’s board meeting. The LCAP is implemented into all state schools that receive public funding to help increase...
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What it means to ‘never forget’
“Never forget” so that it “never happens again.” That’s the message of the drama “Never Forget,” according to the cohort of young students, selected by eighth-grade author Charlie Seigel, starring alongside Seigel in the 40-minute collection of...
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Triumph over their tragedy
When the Santa Clarita Flyers 12-and-under girls’ hockey team arrived at The Cube Wednesday night — their home rink — many rituals honoring their return awaited. There were the fellow hockey players flanking their entrance with raised sticks, the...
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Teaching lessons that last
Students usually doze off during the last few minutes of class before they’re dismissed for the day. Or they may engage in side conversations with other classmates, paying semi-attention to the instructions a teacher is giving. But during a recent...
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