You've seen the commercials about the "fakes" - so consider this your warning that cops know how night drivers "pretend" to be wearing their seatbelts - and take the rule seriously.

The 2012 start-of-summer Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization kicked off Monday to help save lives by cracking down on those who don’t buckle up.

By Austin Dave/SCVNEWS.com

Fourth grade students at Oak Hills Elementary in Westridge are keeping the United States Patent Office busy Tuesday, as they held their spring Invention Convention.

More than 100 students have been engaged in developing, building and demonstrating contraptions of all shapes and sizes over the last several weeks, to be judged by a variety of community members.

The nonprofit Safe Action for the Environment Inc. is calling on the community to show up at City Hall Tuesday night in support of a resolution that could help save Soledad Canyon from the proposed CEMEX mine, by asking Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, to rejoin the effort to stop the mine.

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to put on a welding helmet, drop down the faceguard and fire up a torch, College of the Canyons has a tour for you.

The COC Welding Technology department is hosting an interactive Open House from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at their state-of-the-art welding lab on the college’s Valencia campus.