Sunday, September 27, 2026 | 6:30 am
United Teachers of Pasadena will host a forum for Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education candidates Saturday, Oct. 3, at 2 p.m. at First Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena, the union said in a Saturday announcement. The forum comes a month before ... More »
Saturday, September 26, 2026 | 6:05 am
The Black Education Expo, a free resource fair for kindergarten-through-12th-grade students and their families, returns to the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, Oct. 3, co-presented by Pasadena Councilmember Tyron Hampton. The one-day event puts colleges... More »
Saturday, September 26, 2026 | 6:00 am
Hundreds of new Caltech students streamed across Beckman Mall Friday morning, passing beneath an arch of orange, white and turquoise balloons before filing into Beckman Auditorium for a formal welcome to one of the world’s most demanding scientific communities... More »
Saturday, September 26, 2026 | 5:37 am
Pasadena City College students seeking to transfer to Occidental College now have a course-by-course guide showing how certain PCC classes can satisfy Occidental’s general education program, under an agreement the two colleges formalized this week. PCC Superin... More »
Friday, September 25, 2026 | 4:36 pm
The Pasadena Unified School District reexamined its arborist’s findings in greater detail and reached the same conclusion it had before: several mature, protected trees on the front lawn of Longfellow Magnet School must come down to finish removing contaminate... More »
Friday, September 25, 2026 | 6:12 am
Caltech will formally welcome its incoming undergraduate and graduate students Friday morning at its annual Convocation in Beckman Auditorium, where fusion physicist Tammy Ma, a 2005 Caltech graduate and member of the team behind the December 2022 fusion-ignit... More »
Thursday, September 24, 2026 | 6:47 am
Pasadena Water and Power is inviting a different kind of student to apply for its scholarship money this year: not the university-bound senior, but the one headed for a trade school or community college to learn the hands-on work of keeping water flowing and t... More »
Thursday, September 24, 2026 | 5:52 am
Parents and guardians weighing an independent school for a kindergartner or elementary-age child can meet admissions representatives from 17 area schools in a single room Saturday morning, when the Pasadena Area Independent Schools consortium, known as PAIS, h... More »
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | 4:59 am
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education will hold a public hearing Thursday on whether every student has sufficient textbooks and instructional materials for the 2026-27 school year, then vote on a resolution certifying that they do. The hearin... More »
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | 4:21 am
Caltech has been recognized among the nation’s top universities, ranking fifth, in a tie with Stanford University, in the 2027 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges list, released September 22. The placement is the Institute’s largest single-year climb in mor... More »
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | 4:10 am
City Councilmember Steve Madison has endorsed Geoff Baum for the Pasadena Area Community College District Board of Trustees, citing Baum’s previous service at Pasadena City College (PCC) and his involvement in West Pasadena civic issues. Baum is running to rep... More »
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | 4:05 am
Thirty-five Pasadena City College students will pledge to spend eight months serving groups that help communities recover from the Eaton Fire, with Altadena Libraries among the program’s listed partners. They are the first fully funded class of a College Corps... More »