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The Board of Supervisors approved a motion by Supervisor Kathryn Barger to allow elementary schools to begin applying for waivers needed to reopen grades TK-2 in local schools, prioritizing schools with a high number of low-income students. “The closure of sch... More »
At an event in front of City Hall Tuesday morning City Councilmember John Kennedy said he stands with local hotel workers fighting to get their jobs back. “I stood on the steps of City Hall this morning in unison with our hotel workers in Pasadena,” Kennedy sa... More »
Early results from a study carried out in part by Pasadena’s Huntington Medical Research Institute has shown significant lung injury from E-cigarette (eC) devices with nickel-chromium alloy heating elements. The findings, according to the website eurekalert.or... More »
Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) on Tuesday announced that a new chair and vice-chair have been named to the organization’s board of trustees. J. Andrew Murphy and Catherine M. Ward, respectively, have been named to the two positions, according to a sta... More »
Faced with the new realities and challenges regarding how best to teach, learn, and conduct research during the COVID-19 pandemic, Caltech has launched Caltech Together: a risk-prevention and community-support campaign. The campaign aims to communicate public ... More »
With triple-digit temperatures forecast for Pasadena today, a heat advisory indicating temperatures may be hot enough to make some people ill will be in force from Tuesday morning until Thursday evening. “Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur,” wa... More »
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger on Monday joined Department of Public Social Services in handing out backpacks filled with school supplies and new shoes to low-income children in Altadena. Barger, along with DPSS Toy Loan Program Director Antonia ... More »
Charlie Firestone, president of the Rose Bowl Institute, will introduce the new organization Wednesday when he serves as guest speaker at the Pasadena Rotary Club’s weekly virtual meeting. The title of Firestone’s speech to the Rotary Club, which starts at noo... More »
City and county health officials reported encouraging figures on COVID-19 infections and deaths on Monday, recording only one death countywide, with officials saying it appeared a feared post-Labor Day holiday weekend viral surge had been averted. Pasadena saw... More »
The two City Council members who have not taken sides in the upcoming mayor’s race told Pasadena Now on Monday they will remain neutral. Councilmembers Gene Masuda and Andy Wilson said they will not follow suit with the rest of the council and have declined to... More »
Local Armenian American residents told Pasadena Now they are monitoring the situation in Armenia after the country mobilized its military following clashes with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh serves as an important... More »
Pro baseball players, the Major League Baseball Players Association said in a statement, stand with workers laid off by a Pasadena hotel who are hoping to get their jobs back. Former employees at the Langham Pasadena Hotel want to be rehired and say the hotel ... More »
