On November 29, 1957, the Mint Canyon Chamber of Commerce formally incorporated, cementing its role as the leading voice for the rapidly growing eastern Santa Clarita Valley. Founded just a year earlier in 1956, the chamber championed the interests of Mint Canyon, later known as Canyon Country, during an era where the valley was defined by spirited rivalry between the ...

Today in SCV History, June 2, 1945, local residents of the valley voted 432-2 for a $300,000 funding plan to build William S. Hart High School. The first high school in Santa Clarita, William S. Hart High School, was built after a $300,000 bond measure was voted on and passed 432 to 2 on June 2, 1945. On January 13, ...

On this day in 1938, a Lockheed transport plane on route to Las Vegas crashed in Mint Canyon in the Santa Clarita Valley, killing all nine people on board. The plane struck a series of ridges, bouncing and disintegrating before finally stopping on Stroh Peak, a hill 1.5 miles north of Mint Canyon Road; different sources state this accident occurred ...

Two Santa Clarita counterfeiters were caught during a Special Assignment Team (SAT) operation Thursday when deputies served an auto theft search warrant at a home in the Mint Canyon manufactured home estates in Canyon Country Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The Feb. 1 raid was apart of an auto theft investigation ...

Mint Canyon Community School fourth-grader Katherine Oliveras helped KHTS AM-1220 celebrate the 25th anniversary of the station’s partnership with Santa Clarita Valley elementary schools Wednesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Katherine read her book report, which was on “George’s Marvelous Medicine,” on air as part of a time-honored station tradition — the ...