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A longtime restaurateur, a local bookstore founder and a teen-founded recovery organization were honored Monday for work that city officials said strengthened Pasadena through community service, cultural representation and aid to Eaton Fire survivors. The Huma... More »
Ruthie Hopkins, longtime co-owner and publisher of The Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley Journal, has died following decades of advocacy journalism focused on issues affecting the Black community in Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley, according to the Los Angeles S... More »
Firefighter Armen Hagopian was honored last week as Firefighter of the Year during the Pasadena American Legion Post 13 Police and Fire Persons of the Year Awards Luncheon, an annual event that honors outstanding service and dedication among local public safet... More »
For 18 years, if a Pasadena or Altadena parent wanted to know which public school to choose — or how to navigate open enrollment, or what a dual language immersion program actually feels like on a Tuesday morning — Nancy Rose Dufford had the answer. At the end... More »
In 2015, Dr. Andre Panossian traveled to Haiti with a team of pediatric surgeons and helped perform what Partners in Health, the nonprofit that organized the trip, described as the country’s first conjoined twin separation. That career — running from a practic... More »
Huntington Health has named its chief nursing officer, Jinhee Nguyen, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, to the additional role of senior vice president and chief operating officer, consolidating nursing and hospital-wide operations under one executive at Pasadena’s larges... More »
“The story of the farmworkers movement was never a story about one person,” California State Senator Sasha Renée Pérez said in an interview with Pasadena Now ahead of Dolores Huerta’s 96th birthday today. Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists a... More »
Pasadena City College Hall of Famer Jesse Gomez, who led the 1967 Lancers men’s cross country team to the the school’s only state championship ever in the sport, died on Tuesday night. He passed away from a respiratory illness at Pomona Valley Hospital. Gomez’... More »
Three women whose work has shaped Eaton Fire recovery in Pasadena and Altadena were among four local honorees recognized Saturday at U.S. Rep. Judy Chu’s 16th annual Congressional Women of the Year awards ceremony on April 4. Vannia De La Cuba, who serves in P... More »
Leeza Gibbons has signed a new multiyear deal with Nexstar to continue serving as co-host of KTLA Los Angeles’ live broadcast of the Rose Parade. Gibbons has served as co-host of the Rose Parade since 2017. Gibbons first hosted the KTLA Rose Parade broadcast i... More »
John O. Dabiri (PhD ’05), Caltech’s Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, and Joseph Lazio, a visiting associate in astronomy, have been named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the ... More »
On March 9, 1951, near a place called Taemi-Dong in Korea, a company of American soldiers was pinned against a hillside by withering machine gun fire. Their captain, a 31-year-old Chickasaw Indian from Pasadena, rose alone. He charged uphill through a storm of... More »
