A proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit in the Earth-moon system is a stepping stone to sending humans to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
As Memorial Day weekend approaches, Pasadena police have plans to crackdown on early revelers who drink and drive.
The union representing two Pasadena police officers accused of failing to turn over evidence in a murder trial says they should be cleared of wrongdoing because prosecutors have admitted to misplacing evidence in the case.
Less than a year after the rover Curiosity's successful landing on Mars, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are at work on two new missions to the Red Planet.
SOUTH PASADENA — Exactly 68 possessions after the South Pasadena High boys’ volleyball team first reached match-point, the Tigers finally closed out.
Volunteers in South Pasadena collected more than 30,000 cookies on Wednesday for delivery to hospitalized and disabled military veterans in time for Memorial Day weekend.
Pasadena firefighters rescued a man whose arm became stuck in a conveyor belt Wednesday morning at the Salvation Army warehouse on Waverly Drive.
While not patrolling the tennis court, Oleg Simonyan has been busy elsewhere around Glendale seeking ways to improve his game.
Bob Hope Airport officials say they are grappling with higher than expected inspection costs tied to the construction of a new $112.6 million transportation center.
San Marino officials approved an extensive interior remodel of City Hall on Tuesday that will require city departments to relocate for six months.
Newton R. Russell, a veteran state senator known as an expert on California's complex public pension system and a stickler for upholding legislative rules, died Saturday of lung cancer at his La Cañada Flintridge home, his family said. He was 85.
All lanes of the 210 Freeway were reopened about 3:25 p.m. Monday, more than 10 hours after a big rig carrying grapes crashed, the California Highway Patrol said.
All eastbound lanes of the 210 Freeway are open but two westbound lanes will remain closed in Monrovia through at least 3 p.m Monday after a big rig carrying grapes crashed, the California Highway Patrol said.
Monday’s morning commute started off horribly for drivers in the San Gabriel Valley when a big rig carrying fruit overturned on the 210, blocking lanes in both directions in Monrovia for most of the morning.
In the costliest and most vicious City Council race of the Los Angeles election season, the battle for Hollywood has shattered beliefs about Armenian solidarity, with Paul Krekorian's role seen as causing deep rifts in the community.
Alex Hausman and his four-year-old son, Theo, were walking across a shallow area of the Los Angeles River on Saturday morning when they spotted a child-sized mattress floating near the edge.
A Los Angeles man was killed Friday night in Pasadena when a car struck him on Colorado Boulevard, authorities said.
We have used this space on multiple occasions to pound on what we've felt were the boneheaded or shortsighted decisions of the Pasadena Unified's school board. Just last week, in fact, we protested the board's inability to choose its leader, a largely ceremonial position.
It's a billboard custom-tailored to grammar buffs. "Every day we help people get back to their everyday," proclaims the ad for Keck Medical Center of USC. In that single sentence, the copy writer does more to help people with grammar than I probably will in this whole column. But I'll give it a long-winded shot anyway.
It's a little-known fact that Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena may have one of the largest collections of remains of Civil War veterans outside of the areas where the battles were fought.
CLAREMONT — Only one team all season long appeared to stand in the way of perfection for the San Marino High boys' tennis program.
Ferraris will rule Old Town Pasadena on Sunday, and they will require a bridge closure.
Unemployment rates continued to drop in the tri-city area last month, boosted by job gains in trade, transportation and utilities, as well as leisure/hospitality and residential construction.
The attorney for the father of Kendrec McDade -- the unarmed teen robbery suspect fatally shot by Pasadena police during a pursuit last year -- is now alleging a wider pattern of police harassment after filing a complaint that police roughed up her client during a recent search of his home.
Longtime Pasadena City College Board of Trustees member Geoffrey Baum will not seek re-election in November, he announced Thursday night in a letter to colleagues and supporters.
PASADENA — Having stormed into the CIF Southern Section Division VI playoffs on the strength of a six-game winning streak, the Pasadena Poly softball team seemed to carry that momentum into the start of its first-round playoff game against visiting Twentynine Palms.
The Pasadena Pops' star-studded "Sierra Acura Summer Concert Series" opens June 1 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia. At the podium: singer, pianist and renowned interpreter of the American Songbook, Michael Feinstein, appointed successor to the late Marvin Hamlisch, in his inaugural season as the Pops principal conductor.
SAN MARINO — Just like San Marino High's first three playoff opponents, the Santa Monica boys' tennis team didn't stand much of a chance against the Titans in the CIF Southern Section Division II playoffs.
SANTA MONICA — From the head coach, team captain to the athletic director, no one with the South Pasadena High boys’ volleyball team was sure the last time the program played in a championship match.
Legislation introduced by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Silver Lake) that would prevent cities from ticketing motorists who park at broken meters sailed through the state Assembly on Thursday. and his colleagues have agreed with him, passing his legislation in a 71-0 vote.
