Sunday, September 13, 2026 | 6:51 am
Local residents who receive compensation for Eaton Fire losses, including qualifying payments from Southern California Edison, may exclude those amounts from their federal taxable income under a law President Donald Trump signed Friday. The measure, H.R. 5366,... More »
Sunday, September 13, 2026 | 4:53 am
The Pasadena City Council will decide Tuesday whether to open a two-year pilot allowing residents to run small restaurants from their own kitchens, at an estimated startup cost of $225,000. The item asks the council to direct the city attorney to prepare an or... More »
Saturday, September 12, 2026 | 6:14 am
Los Angeles County on Friday, Sept. 11, released its second independent after-action review of the Eaton and Palisades fires, a McChrystal Group study of recovery and repopulation after the Altadena disaster, with 26 findings and 25 recommendations. The review... More »
Saturday, September 12, 2026 | 5:54 am
Pasadena’s Assemblymember John Harabedian said Friday, Sept. 11, that the “substantiated allegations” that Dave Regan, the labor leader behind California’s billionaire tax, harassed and intimidated women are “abhorrent,” after the Associated Press reported on ... More »
Saturday, September 12, 2026 | 5:45 am
October property tax bills will rest on assessed values that may sit below market value, the Los Angeles County Assessor’s Office told Pasadena and Altadena owners Friday, drawing a records lesson from last year’s wildfires. Under Proposition 13, a property’s ... More »
Saturday, September 12, 2026 | 5:27 am
The Pasadena City Council has relaunched its nationwide search for a permanent city manager, engaging a different executive search firm and opening applications through Friday, Oct. 16, the city announced Friday, Sept. 11. The relaunch comes nearly five months... More »
Friday, September 11, 2026 | 5:54 am
Hundreds of invited guests and members of the media gathered Thursday in a Rose Bowl tunnel away from a punishing Pasadena sun, with temperatures pushing near 100 degrees, for the dedication and ribbon cutting of the new Field Club at the Rose Bowl, a dining a... More »
Thursday, September 10, 2026 | 6:19 am
Pasadena’s newest financing tool now has a chair — and a lot of work ahead of it. The board running the city’s new Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District (EIFD) held its first meeting. Members voted District 3 Councilmember Justin Jones chair. Cynthia Kurt... More »
Thursday, September 10, 2026 | 6:15 am
Pasadena Water and Power has received a 2026 Green Power Leadership Award from the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions, recognizing the utility’s clean-energy purchasing as it pursues a 2030 carbon-free goal, the city said in a news release. The award, in ... More »
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 | 5:42 pm
A policy proposal that originated with local high school students is scheduled to reach a Pasadena City Council committee this week, when public health staff brief members on whether bakeries and dessert establishments should identify menu items that contain p... More »
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 | 5:36 pm
A Pasadena City Council committee is scheduled to reopen its review of the protocols and procedures that govern how the City Council conducts its meetings, working from a City Clerk memorandum that assembles the rules now in force, the rescinded rules they rep... More »
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 | 6:14 am
Sprouts Farmers Market will soon replace the long-vacant former Rite Aid at Hill Avenue in Pasadena, District 2 Councilmember Rick Cole told constituents in his newsletter this week. Sprouts already operates a store across town, at 39 N. Rosemead Blvd. Cole ra... More »