On Jan. 21, 1915, Stephen Tyng Mather, an industrialist whose fortune was built in the borax mines of Tick Canyon in today’s eastern Santa Clarita Valley, was sworn in as Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Mather, a Chicago businessman and University of California, Berkeley graduate, had made his first million through borax mining operations in Tick Canyon ...

A Tick Canyon man who’s been called the backyard butcher for running an illegal butcher shop was sentenced a second time on an animal cruelty charge. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Roberto Celedon, 27, of Canyon Country, negotiated a plea with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which resulted ...