Gov. Jerry Brown signed a statewide plastic bag ban into law Tuesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. “This bill is a step in the right direction – it reduces the torrent of plastic polluting our beaches, parks and even the vast ocean itself,” Brown wrote in a signing message. “We’re ...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, released a statement in response to President Barack Obama’s pledge to eliminate the United States’ use of anti-personnel landmines on Tuesday, officials said.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation designed to protect and preserve sacred Native American landmarks on Thursday, a bill opposed by the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce.

A bill designed by Senator Fran Pavley, D- Agoura Hills to increase job opportunities for Californians with developmental disabilities was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge upheld cumulative voting as a remedy for a lawsuit against Santa Clarita claiming the city violated the California Voting Rights Act, officials said Monday. The suit claimed the city was in violation of the CVRA with its at-large elections that disenfranchised minority voters. After a settlement conference, the city and Shenkman & Hughes, the firm representing the plaintiffs, eventually came to terms.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich wrote a letter to Governor Jerry Brown on Friday criticizing recent efforts to ban plastic bags in California. The proposed ban means a $0.10 fee would be imposed on all paper bags used at grocery stores, which would affect the pocketbooks of California’s “economically distressed” communities, according to a news release by Antonovich’s ...

A measure designed to prohibit the state of California from selling or displaying items with the Confederate flag was approved by a 33-2 vote with state Senator Steve Knight, as one of two who voted against the measure.

California Assembly members approved SB 1263 Tuesday, a Santa Clarita Valley bill targeting a local school district’s proliferation of charter school approvals.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed off on two bills Thursday afternoon authored by Assemblyman Scott Wilk, R- Santa Clarita, which will be going into effect Jan. 1.

Assemblyman Scott Wilk (R- Santa Clarita) made an effort to convince Governor Brown to stop the California Air Resources Board from extending a program to transport fuels in hopes of stopping the gas tax increase beginning Jan. 1, officials said.