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City Receives Allotment of Moderna Vaccine

Monday, January 4, 2021 | 5:00 am

More than 2,500 people working and living in Pasadena have received COVID-19 vaccinations, according to Pasadena Public Information Officer Lisa Derderian. There remain about 13,000 people living and working in Pasadena who are eligible for the vaccine but hav... More »

Hearing Officer to Decide on Caltech Conditional Use Permit

Monday, January 4, 2021 | 5:00 am

The city hearing officer is expected to approve a conditional use permit modification request that would allow Caltech to demolish existing on-campus cooling towers. The demolition would make way for new cooling towers at the location. The cooling towers are p... More »

Harvest Rock Takes Another Shot at the Ninth Circuit

Monday, January 4, 2021 | 5:00 am

Lawyers with a local church filed another supplemental brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on New Year’s Eve. According to attorneys for Harvest Rock Church, a recent order in L.A. County offers the church no relief since Pasadena executes its own heal... More »

COVID-19 Hospitalization Decreases Slightly in LA County

Monday, January 4, 2021 | 5:00 am

Los Angeles County on Sunday reported 12,488 new cases of COVID-19 and 91 additional deaths, but also a slight decrease in the number of coronavirus patients in county hospitals. A total of 7,544 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized with the virus, with 21% in ... More »

City Reports 59 Coronavirus Cases Sunday

Monday, January 4, 2021 | 5:00 am

City officials recorded 59 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday and no fatalities. The new infections take the city across a grim threshold as it marked Pasadena’s 7,000th COVID-19 case. All told, the city has reported 7,010 cases of the virus since the pandemic began... More »

Municipal Service Committee to Discuss Renewable Energy Contract

Monday, January 4, 2021 | 5:00 am

Local government will get back to business at 4 p.m. Tuesday when the City Council’s reconstituted Municipal Services Committee meets for the first time in 2021. The meeting marks the first time the committee has met since the new council was sworn in and is n... More »

Week in Review: Top Pasadena Stories of The Week

Saturday, January 2, 2021 | 5:44 pm

The Editors of Pasadena Now go through over 100 articles published this week on our site and cull the top 48 most newsworthy, informative, and readable. Top Stories: Televised Special Replaces Iconic Rose Parade; Rose Bowl Game Kicks Off This Afternoon in Texa... More »

Trump Supporters Hold ‘Patriots’ Rose Parade’

Saturday, January 2, 2021 | 6:00 am

A massive caravan of as many as 1,000 vehicles filled with Trump supporters moved along Colorado Boulevard for hours Friday afternoon in what was billed as  the “Patriots’ Rose Parade.” The route, unused for the actual Rose Parade canceled because of the COVID... More »

Last Day of 2020 Was Pasadena’s Worst Day of Pandemic

Thursday, December 31, 2020 | 5:21 pm

Pasadena saw its single worst day of the pandemic Thursday with a record number of both infections and deaths reported. Ten additional fatalities were reported, along with 225 new infections, city spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said. The figures shattered the prev... More »