On April 12, 1928, exactly one month after one of California’s deadliest disasters, the Los Angeles Times published the official verdict of the coroner’s jury investigating the catastrophic collapse of the St. Francis Dam. The dam disaster, which struck late on March 12 into the early hours of March 13, unleashed a massive wall of water through San Francisquito Canyon ...

In an effort to recognize a tragedy that killed hundreds in Santa Clarita, Congressman Steve Knight’s Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial Act passed a committee in Congress with unanimous support.   The bill by Knight, R-Palmdale, and Julia Brownley, D-Ventura County, also known as, H.R. 2156, passed the House Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get ...

A Santa Clarita Valley water official discusses whether local residents should be concerned about the Oroville Dam situation, since about half the SCV’s water is imported. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The potential for a dam’s spillways to fail and flood prompted officials to order evacuations for tens of thousands of ...

Rep. Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, is cosponsoring a bill introduced by Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, that would improve California’s water storage infrastructure. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. H.R. 2749 – the Dam Authorization, Maintenance, and Safety (DAMS) Act – would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to repair or modify aging dams and ...

United States Geologic Survey officials reported Tuesday night a magnitude 3.1 earthquake about 6 miles north of Castaic. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The “minor earthquake” was reported at 10:27 p.m. “10 km north of Castaic Lake dam.” The hypocentral depth is 1 mile, according to officials. The screenshot below, courtesy of earthquaketrack.com, shows recent ...