City of Santa Clarita officials are hosting an open house event Nov. 13 at 5:30 p.m. for residents and businesses to inform them about the development of the Enhanced Watershed Plan. The event is taking place at the Old Town Newhall Library and free to the public, officials said. Attendees will be informed of the concepts for the plan that ...

Santa Clarita Valley residents are invited to attend a meeting on November 12 to discuss the Whittaker Bermite property cleanup, officials announced Saturday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The property, an undeveloped 996-acre site located in the center of Santa Clarita, is a former munitions testing and manufacturing site with “contamination issues” ...

City of Santa Clarita officials hosted a dedication and ribbon cutting Wednesday to celebrate the acquisition and protection of Gateway Ranch, a 302-acre property once planned for major housing development. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Santa Clarita Valley residents and community hiking groups joined Mayor Laurene Weste, Mayor Pro Tem Marsha McLean, ...

The corn stalks and sunflowers aren’t quite as tall. Sometimes, the dust is more plentiful than the pumpkins. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. “We did lose a lot of money to crop failure,”said Levi Lombardi, 20, who oversees farming at Lombardi Ranch, one of the Santa Clarita Valley’s most famous farms for ...

College of the Canyons officials hosted their second annual Green Up: Community Action and Education conference Saturday to promote water and energy sustainability efforts. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Presented by SCV Family of Water Suppliers and Santa Clarita Environmental Education Consortium (SCEEC) officials, the event featured a variety of discussion panels, ...

College of the Canyons officials are hosting their second annual Green Up: Community Action and Education conference on Oct. 18 to promote water and energy sustainability efforts. Presented by the SCV Family of Water Suppliers and the Santa Clarita Environmental Education Consortium (SCEEC), the free conference will include green panels, workshops, vendors and children’s activities, according to a COC news ...

A Santa Clarita golf club is one of several businesses suffering from the drought in California, course officials said Tuesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. “We are alternating course closure(s),” said Robinson Ranch Golf Club Director Rick Howard adding the course isn’t closing for good. “We have used a vast majority of our allocated ...

Santa Clarita Valley officials and environmental activists recently recognized the contributions of longtime local biologist and naturalist Don Mullally, naming the Towsley Canyon Loop the Don Mullally Trail. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Santa Clarita Mayor Laurene Weste, as well as representatives from the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Sierra Club and ...

By MRCA Naturalist Carolyn Everhart This week’s SCV Outdoor Report draws parallels between trees and superheroes.  Learn the benefits of trees and how tree bark and tree leaves play a role in simple trees being superhero trees. I love superheroes. I grew up watching them on TV and the recent boom of superhero movies has been great fun to watch. ...

Santa Clarita water retailers are building a new treatment facility to deal with perchlorate contamination in the local groundwater supply, officials said.