The William S. Hart Union HIgh School District board voted 4-1 to replace the high school’s Indians mascot by 2025 at its meeting Wednesday, July 14. Members of the Santa Clarita-area community, Hart High students and graduates, parents and staff members exchanged heated remarks about the fate of the mascot during the meeting. At times,
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The California Department of Public Health’s vaccination dashboard update on Wednesday, July 14, said more than 48.5 million vaccine doses have been distributed in the state. About 20.5 million Californians (60.6%) are fully vaccinated, up from 20.2 million last week. The state’s vaccine dashboard is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Here’s how the percentages by age
VAN NUYS — A woman was fatally stabbed Wednesday morning in Van Nuys, and a possible suspect was detained. Officers were sent to the 13800 block of Valerio Street about 8:50 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The woman, in her 40s, died at the scene, police said. Her name was withheld, pending
Two more California men have pleaded guilty in South Florida for their roles in a $1.3 billion real estate fraud scheme that stole money from thousands of investors nationwide. Dane Roseman, 38, and Ivan Acevedo, 44, both of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty Monday in Miami federal court to participating in a massive investment fraud scheme,
General Motors officially announced on Tuesday, July 13, it’s bringing its Advanced Design Center to Pasadena, where it will invest $71 million to build a new campus that focuses on mobility that falls outside the production scope of traditional vehicles. The auto-making giant says it wants to bring the company closer to technology hubs, leading
Southern California can feel like a mash-up of strip malls, subdivisions, concrete and cell towers, with days blurring into an endless sea of crowds, cars and pollution. But the area is surrounded by three national forests and enough open land to venture out and see few others, or no one at all. The Angeles, San
LOS ANGELES — Two San Fernando Valley men were sentenced to federal prison terms Monday for participating in a document-trafficking ring that created and sold counterfeit United States passport cards, Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and other documents. Carlos A. Hernandez, 44, of Granada Hills, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and Miguel
Completing its stirring tale of football rebirth, Italy won the European Championship for the second time by beating England 3-2 on penalties on Sunday, July 11. And the cheering resonated all the way to San Pedro. Related: Italy wins Euro 2020 final, beats England 3-2 in penalty shootout after 1-1 draw More than 1,000 fans
For Independence Day weekend, the New York Times’ Jill Cowan wrote a few days beforehand, “antsy Californians are projected to hit the road in record numbers for a newly unfettered Fourth of July holiday. And, as usual, many of us are headed for the coast.” Your columnist, meanwhile, was headed for the San Fernando Valley.
After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the Pageant of the Masters, its director Diana Challis Davy worried it might never reopen. “It caused me to think about what makes the pageant exist,” she said on Thursday, July 8, a day after the Laguna Beach show that recreates near-identical replicas of famous artworks with live actors
A proposed resolution urging support for Palestinians and a boycott of Israel, set to come before leaders of the Los Angeles teachers’ union this fall, continues to fracture the education community and, in recent weeks, has raised the specter of members defecting from the union should the resolution pass. The resolution under consideration by United
How do you keep Californians in California? Is there funding in the pipeline for San Fernando Valley projects? Is infrastructure repair in the works? The list goes on… . Four members of Congress discussed issues affecting San Fernando Valley-area residents and businesses at the Valley Industry and Commerce Association Congressional Luncheon on Friday, July 9.
The “Indians” have been the mascot of Santa Clarita’s Hart High School since 1945, when the school was founded. But change may be coming on Wednesday, July 14. After months of debate from students, administrators, parents, staff members and Native American advocacy groups, the William S. Hart Union High School District governing board is expected
Several San Fernando Valley transit projects will receive federal funding following the U.S. House passage of the five-year $715 billion “New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America” measure, known as the INVEST in America Act. The bill sets aside $19.1 million for California’s 29th Congressional District investing in the region’s aging infrastructure.
Conejo Valley Days returns this year with carnival rides and food, July 8-11 and July 14-18 at Conejo Creek Park South in Thousand Oaks. Fans of bands and line dancing, however, will have to wait until 2022 as those attractions have been canceled for this year. (Photo by Diane Rumbaugh/courtesy of Conejo Valley Days) Here
Beautification efforts, a local veterans memorial, clothing for low-income and homeless students, food pantries, academic support and Little League field renovations are among the 46 projects in the Harbor Area and Watts that have won significant grant funding after coming out on top during a community-wide online election. In all, nonprofits throughout the area proposed
Have you traveled by plane yet? I hadn’t flown anywhere in almost two years when I decided to resume my annual June tradition of seeing the folks. (They’re fine, thanks for asking.) I flew out of Ontario International Airport. It was moderately busy. I could have carried my small suitcase aboard but decided to spend
The SpaceX drone ship named “Of course i still Love you” arrives on a transport ship in Long Beach, CA/USA harbor Tuesday morning, July 6,2021. The trip took over two weeks from the east coast through the Panama Canal SpaceX drone ship will be dedicated to polar Starlink landings platform from the West Coasts could
CHATSWORTH — Firefighters stopped the progress of a brush fire Monday night in Chatsworth that burned one acre of grass. The fire near 10547 Boulder Ridge was reported at 8:34 p.m., according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department, which was assisted in fighting the fire by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Kandiss Crone reports from Hacienda Heights where a freeway shooting on the 60 Freeway at 7th Street claimed the life of 35-year-old Luis Mendoza and wounded his two teenage sons, one seriously.