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The struggle for Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital and other hospitals dealing with the latest surge in COVID patients is having enough intensive care unit (ICU) nurses. Hospitals need ICU nurses to care for COVID patients. So as the number of COVID hospitalizations swell, finding enough ICU nurses to treat COVID patients is the real challenge, according to Henry Mayo Spokesperson ...

SCV Neighbors in Need finished their sixth food drive this year, just before Thanksgiving, and are planning a toy and food drive in December for Christmas. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Lesley Vennero knew that some people were going to get hit harder than others. She knew that people were going to have to step up to help those who ...

A Saugus robbery suspect was arrested Friday morning after allegedly punching a CVS store manager, officials said. At about 10:45 a.m. Friday, deputies responded to a report of a robbery at the CVS on the 26500 block of Bouquet Canyon Road in Saugus.. The suspect was seen walking into the business removing items off the shelves and placing them inside ...

Proposition 21 would allow local governments to enact rent control on housing that was first occupied over 15 years ago, with an exception for landlords who own no more than two homes. The ballot measure would replace the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which was passed in 1995 and modified local governments’ ability to enact rent control. The Costa-Hawkins Act allows ...

The City Council celebrated the grand opening of the Santa Clarita bike park at the sports complex on Friday. BMX riders have been able to use the ramps and bowls at the Santa Clarita Skate Park for years, but they’ve been sharing the space with skateboarders and rollerbladers. This new park is a dirt track designed specifically for bikes, officials ...

For three years, volunteers with Beautification of Bouquet Canyon Falls have been cleaning up trash and graffiti at Bouquet Falls. Now they have a GoFundMe.  If you take a trip up to Bouquet Falls on a Saturday morning, you might hear the rush of the falls, the babbling of the creek, and the chugging of a gas generator along with ...

Coronavirus hospitalizations in Santa Clarita have been steadily rising since mid-June, but are still well below total capacity at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, according to officials. COVID hospitalizations peaked in mid-April at 35, then steadily dropped to only three cases by mid-June. The number of patients has been increasing since then and has reached 31 as of Wednesday, according to ...

Horns blared intermittently along Valencia Boulevard as supporters honked while driving past demonstrators outside City Hall Wednesday afternoon. Protestors holding up signs with the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Abolish The Police’ had gathered for their third sit-in on the grassy lawn below the brick portico with the big, brass City Hall lettering. These demonstrators represent a youth movement against ...

Santa Clarita Valley International (SCVi) Charter School’s graduating class of 2020 was honored in a drive-thru ceremony at their Castaic campus Friday morning. https://youtu.be/JUq1WKOKWwg School faculty and parent volunteers came together to make this year’s ceremony for graduating seniors a memorable one as they start the next chapter in their life of learning. Amber Raskin, CEO of iLEAD Development, said ...

The coronavirus has forced Santa Clarita Grocery to cope with an increased demand for their services and to change the way they serve their clients. Santa Clarita Grocery, a nonprofit that provides weekly groceries to families in need, has seen demand for their services increase by 400 percent due to the economic impact of coronavirus, according to Santa Clarita Grocery ...