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At Friends In Deed, a Pasadena nonprofit focusing on homelessness, food insecurity, and eviction prevention, today’s Giving Tuesday campaign has been framed around a stark warning: “deeper needs” await this winter. Across Pasadena, more than 1,200 active nonp... More »
Pasadena nonprofits marked Giving Tuesday with sharply different strategies, reflecting national debates over timing and donor engagement in the global generosity movement that generated an estimated $3.6 billion in donations from about 36 million U.S. partici... More »
Union Station Homeless Services, the San Gabriel Valley’s largest nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness, has received a $5 million grant from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos to expand its family support programs. The award comes from the Bezos Day 1 F... More »
The Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity has launched the Shop Local LA County Gift Card Program to help small businesses devastated by the January 2025 wildfires. The program, unveiled on Cyber Monday, allows consumers to purchase digital gif... More »
The former captain of the dive boat Conception, which caught fire near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day 2019, killing 34 people, is scheduled to appeal his conviction Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena. Jerr... More »
A 44-year-old Pasadena man was robbed at gunpoint Sunday evening in the 1000 block of East Orange Grove Boulevard, according to Pasadena Police Lieutenant Domino Scott-Jackson. Scott-Jackson said the victim reported that he was approached by a suspect in a par... More »
When Club 21 Learning and Resource Center exceeded its $425,000 fundraising goal this year, reaching 105 percent of its target, the Pasadena nonprofit was not celebrating a one-day windfall. The organization had strategically timed its annual walk during Down ... More »
The Pasadena Police Department is highlighting its investment in ethical, accountable leadership as Sergeant Doug Hamblin graduates from the prestigious Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute. The intensive eight-session program focuses on leadership d... More »
[UPDATED] Although UCLA has filed a motion to take a lawsuit filed by the City against the university to arbitration, a clause in the lease with the Rose Bowl could work in the City’s favor. A high-stakes dispute-resolution that allows a judge to pick a neutra... More »
A pretrial hearing was scheduled for Tuesday, December 2 at 8:30 a.m. in Department F of the Pasadena Courthouse for Enrique Antonio Real, who faces one count of murder in the fatal stabbing of Christopher Flores outside a CVS pharmacy in Pasadena. Real has re... More »
The Altadena Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association has set 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, as the deadline for nominations for its annual Citizen of the Year and Business of the Year awards. The date marks the close of nominations only and is not the day of t... More »
Just a day after Small Business Saturday, local retailers are divided on whether Cyber Monday will be a chance to boost holiday revenue with online sales or a day to sit out the digital shopping rush and remain focused on foot traffic. National forecasts proje... More »
