A 760-acre wildfire that authorities called "suspicious" was close to being stamped out Wednesday. Now officials worry about the stability of the hillsides.
Joan Hallett, secretary to the City Librarian, died Tuesday at Huntington Memorial Hospital. She was struck by a car on Saturday and never regained consciousness. Joan had worked at the Arcadia Public Library nearly 40 years.
Arcadia set a local record for the highest percentage increase in the median price of an existing, single-family detached home in California, as compared to a year ago, with an increase of 28.2%.
A Los Angeles preservation group that protested Arcadia's approval of construction at Santa Anita Park has demanded the city halt the project until a full environmental review is done.
Sounding bitter complaints about a construction project at Santa Anita Park that is halfway finished, nearly a dozen residents and preservationists appeared at Tueday's City Council meeting to criticize the city's approval of the project.
Pasadena City College is preparing to tear down three campus buildings that were previously used as barracks in the Japanese Assembly Center at Santa Anita Park during WW II.