Santa Clarita City Council members are set to approve Tuesday a new five-year contract likely to include more than $21 million of service from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is how services for the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station is funded. And the process that funds the Santa Clarita Valley’s law enforcement is part of about a yearlong negotiation, said Capt. Rick Mouwen of the Sheriff’s Department’s Contract Law Enforcement Bureau. The Sheriff’s Department finishes its previous five-year contract with the city of Santa Clarita in June, which is what prompted the negotiation process.

Several Santa Clarita Valley news outlets took part in a candidate forum April 5 in which five Los Angeles County sheriff candidates were asked several questions about law enforcement

Agua Dulce resident Lou Vince, a detective supervisor with the Los Angeles Police Department, is running for sheriff to bring “a broader perspective” to the Sheriff’s Department, he said Thursday. “I see the office of the sheriff as a leader in the criminal justice system,” Vince said, adding that the office of Sheriff provides the opportunity to go beyond just finding the best ways tomake arrests, which is the focus of the LAPD. “I want to improve outcomes for people, instead of finding new and better ways to put them in jail, which is what cops are in the business of,” Vince said, “and improving the county as a whole.”

A Santa Clarita Valley family and their friends are hosting a fundraiser at Telly's Drive In in Castaic to help with memorial costs for Travis Stratton, a 4-year-old autistic boy who drowned Friday. After a two-hour search Friday, Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies found Travis Stratton, 4, an autistic Castaic child, unresponsive in a pool. “As we were leaving the station, our air unit spotted the boy in a neighbor’s pool and directed deputies into the backyard,” according to a Facebook post from a member of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station’s Search and Rescue Team. “Several deputies jumped into the pool, uniforms, guns, radios and all to get to the boy. They immediately began CPR on the unresponsive little boy.”

The second of two recent earthquakes shook Los Angeles County Monday morning. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was followed by several smaller aftershocks. Know what to do and how to keep your family safe in an earthquake.

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies arrested 14 on Friday night during two DUI and driver’s license checkpoints.

State records show a sex offender who was a Santa Clarita resident released in January after serving time for a parole violation is now living in Lancaster.  Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. William Greggory Babb, 54, is now registered to live on the 43100 block of Sierra Highway, according to the Megan’s ...

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station deputies conducted a series of probation checks Thursday morning to make sure probationers were in compliance

Sheriff's Department officials are asking for the public's help in investigating a missing person report for a Canyon Country woman

Sheriff Lee Baca announced his intention to retireat the end of the month Tuesday at a news conference in Sheriff's Department headquarters