Per state law, local elections coincide with state elections this year in an effort to increase voter turnout. The change removed local control in Pasadena elections. The City Clerk will not be conducting a vote count at City Hall. Pasadena Now will be updatin... More »
As concerns about the novel coronavirus ramp up, the United States will begin screening travelers and increase production of masks and test kits. The COVID-19 virus has killed nearly 3,000 people worldwide and more than 88,000 people are currently infected wit... More »
Negotiators convinced a distraught 29-year-old Inglewood man not to jump to his death off the Colorado Street Bridge during a two-hour incident Thursday afternoon. The man climbed over the suicide-mitigation fencing and onto the outside of the bridge, police s... More »
An official with the Pasadena Symphony and Pops told Pasadena Now that the nonprofit organization is watching an Assembly vote scheduled for today that could overturn a law limiting freelancer’s ability to work. AB 5 prevents freelancers from contributing more... More »
Unlike past years when the local elections were run by the Pasadena City Clerk, this year’s primary election vote count will not be conducted at City Hall. Instead, the Los Angeles County Registrar’s office will run this year’s election on Super Tuesday when L... More »
The Pasadena Police Department will conduct DUI saturation patrols on Friday as they look for drivers suspected of driving under the influence, according to a statement released on Monday. The patrols will take place in high frequency collision and arrest area... More »
Summer will intrude into the Pasadena’s “winter today,” with warm Santa Ana winds sending temperatures into the eighties, at least 10 degrees above normal. The remaining workweek is expected to be in the 80’s, with Thursday now predicted to top out at a sunny ... More »
The City Council is scheduled to deliberate on the proposal on Monday that would allow the Pasadena Department of Housing to enter into a contract with Union Station Homeless Services to provide street outreach services with the Pasadena Police Department’s HO... More »
[smooth=id:1879;] As a late morning sun began to peek through a cloudy sky deep in Eaton Canyon Friday, Dr. Joelle Getrajdman was instructing her L.A. County-USC Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT), as she held her scalpel. “I’m going to cut through the mu... More »
Pasadena Now continues its series of candidate statements with responses from candidates in District 4. In this year’s election incumbent Gene Masuda is facing Joe Baghdadlian, Charlotte Bland and Kevin Wheeler. District 4 residents unsuccessfully fought again... More »
A hapless trio of alleged burglars chose the wrong Pasadena neighborhood Wednesday where they were suspected of burgling a house blocks from a police training session which sent heavily armed SWAT officers to help hunt them down. All three — two men and a juve... More »
Doug Forbes recalled that it was a “beautiful” early-summer Friday morning when he and his wife, Elena Matyas, dropped off their 6-year-old daughter Roxie at the “Summerkids” camp in Altadena last June 28. “We decided that both of us would drive Roxie” to the ... More »
