Perry Smith

City planners on Tuesday discussed their goals for one of the most important pieces of property in Santa Clarita, the Town Center Specific Plan, in which they hope to create a “place-making framework” for the area known to most as “the mall.”

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Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency general manager Matt Stone, right, counts down as the ribbon is cut at the new SCV Water Valley Center Well Treatment Facility in Canyon Country on Wednesday, 110922. Dan Watson/The Signal

A woman who thought she was hanging out with friends in Val Verde last month ended up being taken, tortured and assaulted during a horrific kidnapping in a broken-down trailer in a dirt lot on Monroe Street, according to court documents obtained by The Signal. The victim, who is not identified in court documents, appeared […]

Detectives with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department seized methamphetamine, Xanax, fentanyl and digital scales from a Saugus home during a recent investigation into the local sales of narcotics. The residence was the subject of a weekslong investigation, according to L.A. County Superior Court records at the Santa Clarita Courthouse. Informants reported to detectives with the […]

A Canyon Country hillside covered in solar panels is the subject of a yearslong lawsuit by the city of Santa Clarita. Chris Torres/ The Signal

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Two defendants, including a documented local gang member, accused of a dayslong kidnapping and assault, had their hearing delayed again Friday morning in San Fernando Superior Court because one of them failed to appear in court.

A group of residents on and around Abelia Road in Canyon Country to meet Friday with city officials to discuss concerns raised by 40 speed humps on the road. Tammy Murga/ The Signal

Narcotics Bureau detectives working out of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station arrested a man after seizing bags of methamphetamine in his home about 500 feet from Leona Cox Elementary School in Canyon County, according to court records obtained by The Signal. Investigators were alerted to the activity at a home on the residential cul-de-sac […]