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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 »
The Eaton Fire Collaborative has selected Pasadena native Michael Ocon as its first Executive Director to lead long-term recovery coordination across Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre, the organization announced March 13. Ocon, a Pasadena High School gradua... More »
Jerry Kohl has called the Hollywood Bowl “a place of legends, a place that stays in people’s hearts for a lifetime.” Now his name, along with his wife Terri’s, will be permanently fixed to one of the Bowl’s newest structures. The Los Angeles County Board of Su... More »
Assemblymember John Harabedian (D-Pasadena) honored Sheri Bonner, the retiring President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley, as Assembly District 41’s 2026 Woman of the Year during a ceremony on the Assembly Floor in Sacramento this mo... More »
