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The Pasadena Public Health Department is urging everyone 6 months of age and older to get the 2026-27 COVID-19 vaccine as the virus spreads more widely in California this season, the city said in a news release Wednesday, Sept. 2. Hospitalizations remain low, ... More »
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday, Sept. 1, to order several county departments to convene a taskforce within 30 days to address and curb contractor fraud and other scams targeting wildfire survivors. The motion, authored by... More »
California Highway Patrol officers in Southern California and across the state will increase enforcement over the Labor Day weekend, focusing on impaired drivers during a 78-hour holiday enforcement period, the agency announced Tuesday. The CHP’s Labor Day hol... More »
Los Angeles County emergency officials Tuesday outlined preparations for what could be an unusually wet El Niño storm season, urging residents to begin preparing for an increased risk of flooding, landslides and debris flows. County crews are inspecting and ma... More »
A former Pasadena jeweler who founded the long-running Asanti Fine Jewellers in San Marino and later operated for years as an independent private jeweler in downtown Pasadena admitted stealing nearly $1.7 million through fraudulent Rolex sales to victims in Lo... More »
Los Angeles County sued State Farm on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging the insurer illegally delayed, underpaid and denied claims filed by policyholders affected by the January 2025 Eaton and Palisades fires. The complaint cites policyholders in ... More »
The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday will consider directing its staff to develop tighter measures to protect Eaton and Palisades fire survivors from contractor scams and other fraud. “Eighteen months after the Eaton and Palisades Fires, many Altadena and P... More »
Rabies has been detected in bats in Pasadena for the second time this year, city officials announced Monday. The Pasadena Public Health Department received reports of infected bats found near the baseball field at Brenner Park around 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Accord... More »
The Apple store in Old Pasadena was among the Southern California locations where two Chinese nationals living in the Inland Empire exchanged counterfeit iPhones and iPads for genuine devices in a scheme that cost the company at least $16.2 million, according ... More »
Twenty-five years after the twin towers fell in lower Manhattan, local members of the same two professions that ran toward the smoke that fateful morning will gather with the Pasadena community at City Hall to remember it. The Pasadena Fire and Police Departme... More »
A trial date is scheduled to be set Friday morning for Mark Anthony Levels, the Pasadena man charged with murder in the 2023 shooting death of a fellow tenant at a North Fair Oaks Avenue apartment complex. The 8:30 a.m. hearing in Department F of the Pasadena ... More »
When Californians voted to reduce drug penalties in 2014, it likely had the unintended consequence of also increasing homelessness in the state, according to a new report. The report, released Thursday by the Public Policy Institute of California, set out to m... More »
