A cooling trend settles in as the weekends, with a series of storms bringing much-needed rain and a touch of winter magic to the mountains. Starting tonight, the northern reaches of the county can expect scattered showers, a light sprinkle to chase away the dust. But the real party starts late Friday as a vigorous storm system sweeps in, bringing rain and mountain snow. Rain is expected across the... More »
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge struck down the significant parts of actress Leah Remini’s complaint against the Pasadena-based Church of Scientology earlier this month. According to Courthouse News, in his 37-page ruling, Superior Court Judge Randolph Hammock agreed to strike more than a dozen paragraphs of Remini’s complaint as untimely, finding that those claims took place before Aug. 2, 202... More »
As a new state law poised to take effect Monday will raise minimum wages for all fast-food restaurant employees, the City of Pasadena reminded business owners that all other employees working in the city must be paid at least $16.93 per hour. In a statement Wednesday, the City told the local business community that beginning April 1, all “fast food restaurant employees” in California who are cover... More »
Pasadena Board of Education Trustee Patrick Cahalan announced Wednesday he has endorsed candidate Scott Harden for the upcoming election in Trustee Area 4. Cahalan, who has served on the board since May 2015, said late last year he had decided not to seek reelection in 2024. “I am deeply honored and humbled to announce that I have received the endorsement of PUSD Trustee Area 4 incumbent Patrick C... More »
Pasadena’s Department of Transportation will provide the latest updates to the city’s Short Range Transit Plan (SRTP) when the Transportation Advisory Commission meets on Thursday, March 28, starting at 4 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Grand Conference Room in the City Hall Basement. It is open to the public. A preliminary report by the Transportation Department said the SRTP update process... More »
Police said Wednesday a local man who has been missing for nearly a week had earlier returned to the U.S. after he and his wife crossed the border into Tijuana, Mexico. 63-year-old Pasadena resident John Magnus French went missing after he went to get food in Tijuana where he was visiting with his wife last week. Police confirmed French was seen near San Diego at 6:46 a.m. on March 22. He has not... More »
One of the biggest names in automotive design has joined the Board of Trustees at ArtCenter College of Design. Franz von Holzhausen, chief designer for Tesla and the design lead for nearly all the company’s models since he joined the company in 2010, will bring his vast industry experience as well as his perspective as an ArtCenter alum to this new board role. Von Holzhausen graduated from ArtCent... More »
Transit officials announced that Metro has implemented a permanent fare change, raising the price from $1 to $2.50 per ride for its Metro Micro Pilot Program, an on-demand rideshare service that operates in eight zones including the Altadena/Pasadena/Sierra Madre area. The fare increase kicked in Sunday, but the agency also added program discounts to help low-income individuals, seniors, people wi... More »
In less than six months, NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper on a 1.6-billion-mile (2.6-billion-kilometer) voyage to Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa. Designed by and built at Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in Pasadena, Europa was created to conquer threats from the wild vibrations of the rocket ride to the intense heat and cold of space to the punishing radiation of Jupiter. The spacecraft was recent... More »
This Pi Day, March 14, in an upstairs workspace in Caltech’s W. M. Keck Engineering Laboratories building, eight robotic arms were showing off their stuff. Under the watchful eye of the undergraduate students who built and programmed them, each robot performed a unique task. One arm picked up and arranged toy train tracks and another arm built tangram puzzles, while a third played backgammon, and ... More »
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