Acton News

Thriller and Sabu, Michael Jackson's tigers, are healthy and happy at the hambala Preserve in Acton, California.

This show - another in a series of strong efforts by Santa Barbara Museum of Art modern and contemporary art curator Julie Joyce - debuts a recent acquisition with an important connection to the Santa Barbara region's unusual microclimate.

Coroner's officials identified the man who died in a car crash early Friday morning on Highway 14 in the Acton area, officials said.

A 23-year-old Santa Clarita man died in a crash on the northbound Highway 14 freeway Friday, authorities said.

A young manA was killed Friday morning in a crash near Acton that stalled traffic on the northbound Antelope Valley Freeway, authorities said.

County officials on Tuesday said they have only enough swine flu vaccine to immunize a tiny fraction of those in the high-risk group, forcing them to scrap plans for a Santa Clarita Valley vaccination clinic this month.

As daylight disappeared Saturday, more than 500 bloodied and oozing zombies shambled down Main Street on the hunt for living flesh and frightened victims.

Local teens learned lessons in safe driving Saturday at the Teen Driving Safety Fair in Central Park.

A homeless man was arrested and charged with arson for starting a tiny blaze in August near the spot where the gigantic Station Fire erupted several days later, killing two firefighters, homicide detectives said Monday.

The report from the investigation into Jeremiah Lasater's suicide at Vasquez High School last year will remain confidential pending a lawsuit filed by the Lasater family against the Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District, a school district official said.

On a recent morning, a group of about 20 seniors mingled and waited in the recreation room of the Canyon Country Senior Apartments.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch and a high wind warning for parts of the Santa Clarita Valley, forecasting heavy overnight rains Tuesday that would probably ease up tonight.

Fifteen neighborhoods in and below burn areas from Santa Clarita to La Crescenta face the potential today for "small isolated debris and mudflows," according to a warning from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works.

A powerful winter-like storm is expected to batter fire-ravaged hillsides in Los Angeles County with3 to 6 inches of rain beginning Tuesday night and lasting through early Wednesday morning, officials said today.

One of the new informational signs at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys which the hospital has put up to help prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus.

Local assistance centers are open on Thursday in Acton and Sylmar to help residents in need of disaster relief services following the Station Fire.

Local assistance centers will be open on Thursday in Acton and Sylmar to help residents in need of disaster relief services after the Station Fire.

Massive flames reach hundreds of feet in the air as the Station Fire burns in the Angeles National Forest August 30, 2009 near Acton, California.

If the weather cooperates, firefighters will try a series of backfires on Wednesday to contain the Station Fire.

The smoke being seen in the skies around the Mt. Baldy area is from the Station Fire burning between Pasadena and Acton.