On Thursday morning, Santa Clarita Assemblywoman Suzette Martinez Valladares’ bill aimed to prevent wildfires passed through the Assembly floor and is now on it’s way to the Senate.  The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare and certify an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out. Existing law exempts actions of ...

After several neighborhood evacuations Wednesday, a Santa Clarita resident described his North Fire evacuation experience as the fire’s containment reaches 25 percent. A Santa Clarita resident described his North Fire Evacuation experience after several evacuations were authorized in a Valencia neighborhood Wednesday.  The North Fire’s acreage was downgraded from 650 acres to 640 acres Thursday morning with 25 percent containment, ...

Valencia High School, and Rio Norte Junior High School are set to only have distance learning Thursday as a result of the North Fire burning in Santa Clarita. On Thursday, Valencia High School and Rio Norte, are not going to have in-person learning due to the North Fire, said Dave Caldwell, a spokesperson for the William S Hart Union High ...

A Santa Clarita brush fire broke out near Pitchess Detention Center Wednesday, prompting a response from firefighters. UPDATE: (1:00 p.m. 4/30/21) The North Fire in Santa Clarita is 552 acres and 75 percent contained according to a Friday update from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. UPDATE: (9:20 a.m. 4/29/21) The North Fire size has been downgraded from ...