Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger announced Tuesday she has raised $715,000 for her 2024 re-election campaign for Fifth District County Supervisor which represents the Santa Clarita Valley, far outpacing all other candidates. The announcement comes at the mid-year reporting deadline. “I truly appreciate the support I have received across the board from our Fifth District community,” Barger said. “Many ...

Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth awarded the Child and Family Center over $500,000 to continue helping people in the Santa Clarita Valley. The Child & Family Center was one of several agencies that received funding from AB102, authored by Schiavo. “I am especially pleased to announce that with the enactment of AB102, I was able to secure more than $20 million ...

Earlier this month, the budget approved by Governor Gavin Newsom and accompanying trailer bill language directs $82.5 million toward reducing health care deductibles and co-pays for Covered California participants.  Championed by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo D-Chatsworth, the funds make use of fines collected through the individual mandate penalty that were always intended to go toward reducing healthcare costs for low-income Californians. ...

On Thursday, Congressman Mike Garcia’s, R-Santa Clarita, Fire Weather Development Act passed through the Committee on Science, Space and Technology on a bipartisan basis.  “This bill will strengthen our nation’s fire weather capabilities across the board,” said Garcia. “The human-to-wildland interface is growing, especially in North L.A. suburbs such as the ones in CA-27. It’s critical that we invest in ...

The motion for Shadowbox Studios was passed on Tuesday night to build a filming studio in Newhall during the Planning Commission meeting.  On Tuesday night during the Planning Commission meeting, the committee passed the motion to grant Shadowbox a 1.3 million-square-foot film and television studio campus.  “When we first met in April, we presented to the commission why we think ...

Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, introduced a bill Thursday that would allow veterans, military spouses and people with disabilities to be given preference when hiring election workers. The Hiring Preference for Veterans and Americans with Disabilities Act would allow states to give preference to veterans, military spouses, or individuals with a disability to be election workers, officials said. “Our veterans ...

Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo (D-Chatsworth) announced Thursday that over ten of her bills have been passed out of Senate policy committees.    In advance of the Senate Committee deadline this week, Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo announced that she successfully passed all of her bills out of Senate policy committees.    “My office continues to advance the priorities we set out to accomplish: ...

 The Assembly Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sen. Scott Wilk’s (R-Santa Clarita) legislation on Tuesday to provide life-saving bleed control trauma kits in California classrooms. “During the 2019 Saugus High School shooting, lives were saved because of brave teachers with access to trauma kits,” said Wilk. “What happened at Saugus can happen anywhere, so it’s critical that every school in the ...

Congressman Mike Garcia (R-Santa Clarita) joined Trey Gowdy on “Sunday Night in America ” to discuss the Military Spouse Licensing Relief Act and the highest pay raise for soldiers in history.  The interview premiered on Fox News’s Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy where Garcia discussed the biggest pay raise in history for junior enlisted troops.  “This pay raise ...

Jerry Danielsen, the newly appointed member of the College of the Canyons (COC) Board of Trustees, is being examined after a “will investigate letter” for alleged financial disclosure violations, was filed by the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). The agency is examining if Mr. Danielsen should claim an in-kind donation to his COC Board campaign from 2020. Danielsen is ...