Detectives Tuesday announced the arrest of a 49-year-old sex registrant on suspicion of burglary, stalking and sexual battery.

Staff at Pasadena Unified School District will recommend that the district board reject a petition for an Aveson Charter School in Northwest Pasadena, claiming the school could siphon millions of dollars away from the financially strapped district, Chief Academic Officer Alice Petrossian said Monday.

While Altadenans are breathing a sigh of relief that damage from Friday's and Saturday's storm system was not extensive, neighbors in nearby La Canada Flintridge were assessing damage from the heaviest mudslides long-time residents can recall.

The best Valentine women ever received - whether they know it or not - is the one with frayed and yellow lace around the edges.

The Meadows tract in the hills above Altadena is inaccessible due to washouts and debris from the ongoing rainstorm on Canyon Crest.

Most of us love our camellias for their beautiful winter flowers and evergreen foliage.

Jimi Yamagishi performs at the SongNet Songwriter's Showcase which he leads on the third Wednesday of every month at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena.

According to the mythology of the Native America Tongva people who lived in the Arroyo Seco hundreds of years ago, a coyote challenged a river to a race.

Fantasy Tours have traveled to the Panama Canal, Mexico, Columbia, the Caribbean, Dubai, Jordan, Zimbabee, Zambia, Argentina, Austria, Argentina, and many other destinations: worldwide and local day trips.

With hosts of celebrities responding to the Haitian earthquake and its aftermath by raising and donating large sums to the American Red Cross, "just folk" may be looking for ways to donate in a more personal and direct manner.

Donna Scarantino, left, Theatre Americana President, Board of Directors, Thomas Hood, Recreation Services Leader at Farnsworth Park, will also play a "Ghost Magni" in the Polterheist: A Valentine's Day Play, and Jim Hensley, outgoing President of Theatre Americana at the entrance to The William D. Davies Hall Farnsworth Park in Altadena Thursday ...

If you live in Los Angeles County, there are two phrases you will hear repeated over and over after a deluge: "I'm glad the rain is over, but we needed it." How much do downpours like the recent series of storms really fulfill the need for water in the Los Angeles basin, and Altadena in particular? Despite a vast system of spreading basins and dams ...

I wonder what would be as personally important to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as being able to live independently in his own home.

One day after the Pasadena Board of Education voted to place a property tax increase on a spring special election ballot to help close the biggest budget deficit in the school district's history, a nonprofit organization kicked off a campaign to ensure the proposal doesn't fail at the polls.

After approving property tax measures Y in 1997 to fund campus repair and renovation and TT in 2008 to "support instructional, recreational and cultural development of students" according to the Pasadena Unified School District website, Altadenans expressed frustration and anger that they are once again asked to fund the Pasadena Unified School ...

IN Southern California, storms are short and water shortages are long. It might not seem like it at the moment, when we're worrying about the damage done by the recent spate of storms and slogging through the sopping ground to clean up the fallen branches, but we still have long-term water problems.

The Pasadena Unified school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to put a parcel tax measure before voters in May.

Rosa Macias, 64, of Altadena was a passenger in a 1996 Geo Prizm that was stopped on the carpool lane when it was hit by an Infiniti just before 9:30 p.m., Sunday in the eastbound lanes, east of Rosemead Boulevard.

ENJOY A NIGHT OF BLUEGRASS WHEN ACOUSTIC GUITAR PICKER extraordinaire Time May and Murphy's Flaw take the stage Sunday at Altadena's Coffee Gallery Backstage.

FILE: Cars and other accoutraments from the 1970s decorate the film set of a Fox TV show called The Journeyman, set in the 1970s, shot here on North Lake Avenue in Altadena Aug.