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Sunrise Fire: Saugus Brush Fire Ignites In Santa Clara Riverbed, Quickly Halted

A brush fire ignited in the Santa Clara Riverbed in Saugus Thursday afternoon.  The brush fire, dubbed the Sunrise Fire, was first reported around 12:50 p.m. Thursday, in the Santa Clara Riverbed near Railroad Avenue, south of Magic Mountain Parkway in Saugus, according to officials. Forward progress of the fire was stopped at a half-acre. Ed. Note: This is a ...

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Assemblywoman Schiavo’s Small Business Protection Bill Heads To Governor’s Desk

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 Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo announced Wednesday that her Protect Small Business from Predatory Lending Act (AB 2116) has passed the California Legislature and is headed to the Governor’s desk.  Similar legislation has been introduced at least three times in recent years, but previous efforts stalled before receiving final legislative approval. “Small business owners deserve the same basic expectation that when they ...

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Lackey’s Gabriel’s Law Passes Legislature, Heads To Governor 

More than a decade after the death of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez exposed heartbreaking failures in the child welfare system, Assemblyman Tom Lackey’s (R-Palmdale) years-long effort to strengthen protections for abused children has cleared the California Legislature.  Gabriel’s case drew renewed national attention in 2020 with the Netflix documentary series “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez,” which examined the failures of the ...

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Best AI Music Video Creator From A Song: 6 That Hold Up for A Full 3-Minute Track

Short-clip AI video tools nail a 10-second teaser, then melt by the second verse—faces morph, beats drift, footage loops. If your three-minute track is mixed and you need visuals that last the whole ride, stay here. We pored over vendor docs, pricing pages, and release notes—no hands-on hype—to surface six AI music-video platforms that deliver full-length, watermark-free exports. We ranked ...

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Partial Lunar Eclipse To Take Place Over Night Sky

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A partial lunar eclipse is expected to take place over the night sky on Thursday. Thursday night, the full Sturgeon Moon is set to  slip into Earth’s shadow, creating a stunning “almost blood moon” as up to 96.2% of the lunar surface disappears into the darkest part of our planet’s shadow, the umbra, according to officials with space.com The partial ...

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20th Annual Youth Grove Walk Of Remembrance Honors 126 Young Lives Lost

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Friends, family members and community leaders gathered Wednesday evening at Central Park for the 20th annual Youth Grove Walk of Remembrance, honoring Santa Clarita Valley youth whose lives were lost in traffic-related incidents. The annual ceremony, led by representatives from the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, brought community members together to reflect on lives cut short and renew a commitment ...

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Today In SCV History: August 27, 1964 – Debut Of ‘The CalArts Story’ Short Film

On Aug. 27, 1964, Walt Disney Productions debuted “The CalArts Story,” a short film presenting the vision for what would become the California Institute of the Arts, seven years before the school opened its permanent campus in Valencia. The film first screened at the Hollywood premiere of “Mary Poppins,” offering a glimpse of an ambitious future for the arts in ...

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Canyon Theatre Guild Resumes Shows This Weekend

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The devastating Old Town Newhall fire that occurred Monday destroyed four businesses, including The Main Theatre, however, the Canyon Theatre Guild was spared. Executive Artistic Director TimBen Boydston stated, “We are thankful for the hand of divine providence, our fearless firefighters, law enforcement, and the City of Santa Clarita, for making it possible to finish the run of this show ...

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Mission Valley Bank Names Brian Carlson President, CEO In Planned Leadership Succession

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Mission Valley Bank and Mission Valley Bancorp Wednesday announced an orderly leadership succession in which Brian Carlson will become President and Chief Executive Officer of Mission Valley Bank and President of Mission Valley Bancorp.  Founder Tamara Gurney, who has led Mission Valley Bank for 25 years, will transition to Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Mission Valley Bancorp, and ...

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