At the city Council meeting last night, a new plan for selecting Cameron Smyth’s replacement was proposed by Councilman Frank Ferry.

Cameron Smyth, the current city Councilman and future state Assemblyman will be leaving behind an open seat when he resigns from the council on Dec. 1.

The city announced today that two bus routes running in and out of Santa Clarita will have some holiday changes.  Routes 794 and 799 will have limited service operating on Friday, November 24, 2006.  There will be no Santa Clarita Transit service on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 23, 2006. For Rider Alerts, click here.

Since January of this year, the City’s trail division has spent nearly $180,000 on fixing, repairing and cleaning up vandalism and graffiti made to the City’s parks and trails. Enough is enough! The City’s risk management office spent a day in court last week, arguing that a recently-caught vandal should be made to pay full restitution for their crimes, and ...

An open forum on the proposed 25 year Master Plan by Henry Mayo Hospital and G&L Realty was held last night at Valencia United Methodist Church. The forum was brought about to let the public sit in on presentations from both sides of the proposed hospital expansion which include Smart Growth SCV, who oppose the current plan as it is ...

Art has been known to heal. Now, Santa Clarita art students can help the healing process and win a full art scholarship as they fill the walls with their art at the new Providence Holy Cross medical facility in Santa Clarita. The project is a joint collaboration between Providence Holy Cross and SCV Arts. It evolved while Jeri Seratti Goldman, ...

College of the Canyons student journalists won 22 awards, including first place for news writing and news photography, at a journalism conference where more than 30 Southern California community colleges were represented.             “I think it was a wonderful learning experience,” said Lissette Wagner, who shot the winning news photo and also took honorable mention for sports photo at the ...

The City of Santa Clarita, fresh off the unveiling of their Transit bus wrapped in anti-Cemex advertising, took the bus for a spin Monday morning to a press event in Universal City. Volunteers, including this reporter, climbed aboard the flashiest bus in town at 9:30, seated just a few rows from Mayor Laurene Weste and Councilman Bob Kellar. As much ...

Cemex, the company responsible for plans to put a mega mine off of Soledad Canyon, has received a fine for exceeding the United Kingdom’s pollution regulations in Rugby. According to icCoventry.co.uk, the incident in question involved a silo acess door at Cemex’s Rugby Cement Factory that came loose, sending what has been described as a “potentially very hazardous and toxic” ...

The Love Ride After party at Route 66 grill in Canyon country drew thousands of patrons last night. The party included food and drinks, as well as a stunt motorcycle show by Monty Perlin, and performances from the Dallas Hodge band and Canned Heat. A percentage of the earnings from the show went to the Love Ride foundation, which donates ...