The City of Santa Clarita saw some success in its bid to remain a popular destination for filming in Southern California. The City has reported that the economic benefit stemming from local filming was up 14 percent in 2009 compared to 2008. The total impact of location filming reportedly surpassed $22 million last year.

College of the Canyons' Ashley Wakefield is the California Community College Women's Basketball Coaches Association co-player of the year. She shares the honor with Sumiya Darden of Fresno City College.

Study aims to gauge how we feel about shopping, public safety and other big issues.

The city of Santa Clarita has wrapped up their latest public opinion poll, the first such study since 2006 to be conducted.

Meyer Marketing Intelligence, Inc. ran the study, which contacted 408 local residents by phone and asked a series of predetermined questions. The survey was only opened to those who lived within the City limits, and therefore excluded Castaic, Stevenson Ranch, Westridge and Tesoro residents.

U.S. Senator Barbra Boxer has introduced legislation aimed at stopping the 20-year-old mining dispute between the City of Santa Clarita and CEMEX USA.

That mining dispute is over a contract granted to CEMEX by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to extract 56 million tons of sand and gravel from a site in Soledad Canyon.