Pasadena Star-News

PASADENA - City officials now estimate the public cost of the December windstorm around $14.5 million - that's about $2.5 million less than estimated earlier this year. More »Pasadena drops damage estimate from windstorm by $2.5 million

PASADENA - Major changes are expected for Pasadena's Northwest Commission, modifications that will give the citizen body much more say in economic development in the working class neighborhood, community … More »New Northwest Pasadena commission will have expanded powers

ARCADIA - Kindergarten students can be a handful, so teacher Donna Van Zwaluwenburg has a simple motto to live by: "I take a lot of live wires and see that they are well-grounded." More »Arcadia Christian School bids farewell to teacher after 40 years

Alhambra American Legion Post 139 will host a Memorial Day event starting at 11 a.m. Monday at Alhambra Park, 500 N. Palm Ave. More »Memorial Day Weekend Events

ALHAMBRA - The historic All Souls School is getting a makeover this year, opening the first dual language immersion program in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. More »Alhambra's All Souls School to offer dual language immersion

ALTRUISM is all well and good, but sometimes you have to be a poster child for the diseases that affect you as well as others. More »Larry Wilson: Join scientists in the fight against migraines

PASADENA - Risking capture by duct tape, Caltech senior Robert Karol tested out one of two giant inflatable hamster balls on Beckman Lawn on Thursday. Photo gallery: 2012 Ditch Day at Caltech More »Caltech students celebrate Ditch Day

Historic First Lutheran Church of Pasadena, 808 N. Los Robles Ave., will celebrate its 120th anniversary on Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27. More »Observing the Faiths: May 25

PASADENA - Officer Kevin Okamoto has agreed to go on paid leave after the Pasadena Police and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's departments launched separate investigations into alleged misconduct by the … More »Pasadena officer Kevin Okamoto on leave; Det. Keith Gomez probe could widen

PASADENA - Even as Pasadena takes aim at organic trash in an effort to meet state goals for 2020, city leaders have concerns. More »Restaurants pan Pasadena's "Zero Waste" trash plan

ARCADIA - Holly Avenue Elementary fifth-grader Kaelyn Ong said she never thought her five-member improv team "Screamos" would win first place in March at a state improvisational competition in Clovis. More »Arcadia school children to compete in global improv competition

ALHAMBRA - All Souls Church has become the latest casualty of the redevelopment debacle, losing key revenue after the city stopped paying the lease for a used car lot on church property. More »Alhambra church loses money from city's redevelopment confusion

PASADENA - A new charter school could soon open on the Washington Middle School campus, intended to serve at-risk children and boost academics. More »Pasadena middle school may soon get charter students

PASADENA - Police have named a parolee and his girlfriend as persons of interest in the shooting death of a 43-year-old Altadena man late last year as they await trial on unrelated drug charges, officials … More »Couple named `persons of interest' in 2011 Pasadena slaying

Power was restored Tuesday to the last 300 customers in Glendale more than 15 hours after a single-engine plane crashed on a residential street, cutting electricity to thousands, according to official … More »Power returns to homes after plane crashes on street

ARCADIA - Two days later than planned, Colorado Boulevard between San Antonio Road and Santa Anita Avenue might close starting today to make way for the $735 million Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension … More »Arcadia's Colorado Boulevard might close today - really

DAVE Matson of Pasadena takes issue with me about my writing, of the Showcase House, that, whether or not fancy-dan leather-bound unread books furnish a room, old college textbooks do not belong on the … More »Larry Wilson: The merits of textbooks

When supporters of California public education look to the East Coast they often turn green with envy. More »It's Politics: California educators only see green when they face east

SAN GABRIEL - After regularly "attending" school in their pajamas, the 2012 graduates of the California Virtual Academies donned heels and suits to walk across the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse stage and … More »California Virtual Academies high school students graduate

Two days later than planned, Colorado Boulevard between San Antonio Road and Santa Anita Avenue might close Wednesday to make way for the $735 million Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension project from Pasadena … More »Arcadia's Colorado Boulevard might close Wednesday for Gold Line work - really

LOS ANGELES - A minor fender bender in a Dodger Stadium parking lot over the weekend led to the beating of a driver and the arrest of four people more than a year after a San Francisco Giants fan was left … More »4 men - including a Monrovia man - arrested after beating at Dodger Stadium

Forest chief will talk on future of Angeles More »Around Pasadena: May 22

Altadena will hold an election next month with more positions than candidates. More »Altadena Town Council has open seats few candidates