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For many residents, a criminal record or unpaid traffic ticket can block job opportunities and housing. Last Saturday, they had a chance to change that. The Alkebulan Expungement Clinic opened its doors from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free services included record clea... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Board of Education finds itself in the position of needing to trim roughly $30 million from its annual budget. Unfortunately, its approach to these cuts is utterly backwards and self-defeating. School districts exist... More »
The Pasadena Police Department announced Monday it has received a $545,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to support traffic enforcement and education programs aimed at reducing serious injuries and deaths on local roads. The grant-funded p... More »
Attorneys for LA Fire Justice announced Monday that they have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Southern California Edison, Edison International and Genasys Inc. on behalf of Geraldine “Gerry” Darden, whose sister Stacey Darden was among 19 people killed ... More »
Union Station Homeless Services is confronting its most significant Thanksgiving turkey shortage in five decades, raising the possibility that some Pasadena residents in need could be turned away from the nonprofit’s annual holiday program, according to an off... More »
Two separate murder cases are scheduled for proceedings Monday morning in Department F of the Pasadena Courthouse, drawing renewed attention to fatal stabbings that occurred in the city in 2019 and 2022. At 9 a.m., jury deliberations are expected to continue i... More »
Securing our economic future starts with learning from our past. Our vital services and community quality of life are at risk (outlined in Part One). It takes $1.5 billion in annual spending to support the City’s current way of doing business. Plus we face $2 ... More »
A towering coast live oak tree fell during Saturday’s atmospheric river storm and crushed a white Toyota RAV4 rental vehicle near the intersection of Allen Avenue and Meadowbrook Road, according to multiple media and local eyewitness accounts. No injuries were... More »
Pasadena can’t sit on its assets. Fiscal challenges abound for California’s public sector. The State has seen a drastic fall in revenues after the post-COVID economic recovery and Federal bail-outs faded. The City of LA patched together this year’s budget by s... More »
[Updated 5:55 a.m.] Pasadena and Altadena are under an areal flood watch until 10 p.m. Saturday, with the National Weather Service warning of heavy rainfall, saturated soils, and the potential for flooding in low-lying and urban areas. “Concerned about what ... More »
An unusually strong storm system has reached Southern California, raising fears that the rain could unleash a threat that has been lingering in the burn scars of wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles communities in recent years. Called debris flows, these fast-mo... More »
A Pasadena day laborer who says he was held for weeks without access to an attorney is among the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit that prompted a federal judge’s order requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow immigrant detainees in downtown L... More »
