The California Department of Transportation’s SR-710 North Study Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) misrepresents data in favor of the tunnel alternative and fails to address substantial environmental and community impacts, a Pasadena residents group sai... More »
Caltech professors Alexei Kitaev and Christopher Umans have been named Simons Investigators. These appointments are given annually to “support outstanding scientists in their most productive years, when they are establishing creative new research directions.” ... More »
Pasadena-based Green Dot Corporation has announced a new cash processing technology that enables customers to securely and conveniently add cash to their accounts at participating retailers using their mobile device. The service leverages Green Dot’s new mobi... More »
The Altadena Chamber of Commerce hosted Los Angeles County Mayor Michael D. Antonovich for a Thursday morning Power Breakfast. After a “warpath outreach” the Altadena Chamber memberships have grown over 300% from less than 30 members one year ago to now more t... More »
California’s Public Employment Relations Board has ordered Pasadena City College to switch back to having fall and spring semesters with winter and summer sessions, after determining the college was in violation of state law when it eliminated the winter sessi... More »
Pasadena city departments are now implementing key recommendations made by a consulting group which recently completed a study of the City of Pasadena’s Development Review Process. Matrix Consulting Group’s 278 recommendations were focused on how the city... More »
The South Pasadena Police Department is warning against a variety of scams being perpetrated by conmen victimizing South Pasadena residents. Richard Lee, Detective and Crime Prevention Officer at the South Pasadena PD, said many residents have reported being a... More »
ShakeAlert, an earthquake early warning system which Pasadena’s Caltech helped develop, is now closer to becoming a functioning network for the U.S. West Coast, thanks to a $4 million award from the U.S. Geological Survey. The award announced last week gave th... More »
The Altadena Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has won three medals in the Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) 38th Annual Competition in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on July 12th, 2015... More »
Villa Esperanza Tournament of Hope Committee (L-R) Brij Lal, Jenny Seto, Paul Marks, Lisa Sloan, Michael Erickson, Debbie Meymarian- Tournament Co-Chair, Gioia Pastre. Not pictured: Chuck Tapert – Tournament Co-Chair, Elizabeth Barajas, Nikhil Lal, Corey Waite... More »
Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) released the following statement on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson: “Voting is the great equalizer and a sacred tool of democracy. For too long, we used race, background... More »
Two separate power outages occurred in different parts of Pasaden on Wednesday and both have been repaired and power fully restored. The first struck at about 3 p.m. and affected 685 customers and some traffic signals along Arroyo Parkway, prompting Pasadena p... More »
