The Pasadena Police Department won first-place in a national competition for improving the community’s quality of life, while the city's Health Department was successfully re-accredited by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), officials said.

The PPD competed against half a dozen other finalists from cities around the country during this year’s NUSA Conference on Friday, May 24, in Lubbock, Texas.

My home in northwest Pasadena was built in 1895 and more than a century later, I became its eighth resident.

My favorite park as a kid didn’t have any of the fancy equipment, but it was special to me, and I found it to be particularly beautiful. To read more, click here.

My parents immigrated to the United States in the 1970’s fleeing the violence of the Guatemalan Civil War, and they arrived in the city of roses, Pasadena, California. I grew up in an idyllic neighborhood near a beautiful park, surrounded by storybook houses and near the iconic Art Deco water fountain on the southeast corner of Glenarm Street and Fair Oaks Avenue. To read more, click here.

Communities across the United States will come together the first Tuesday in August, all in the name of crime prevention.

Founded in 1985, National Night Out brings neighbors and local law enforcement together for celebratory events like block parties, festivals and parades. To find out more, click here.

For a sampling of Pasadena’s famous film locations, visit one the City’s library branches, or the Pasadena Visitor’s Center and ask for a copy of ‘The Pasadena Hollywood Backlot Walking Tour,’ which features 30 movies filmed in and around Pasadena City Hall. To find out more, click here.

Susana writes as a guest author on Coloradioblvd.net where she shares her passion for live music, acoustic instruments, and a traveling piano. [Read Now]

Susana a longtime community organizer achieves a lifelong goal of working in law enforcement. [Read more]

Susana Porras will leave her position as District 3 Liaison for a new position, Program Coordinator I for the Special Operations Division, created in the Pasadena Police Department. [Read More]

Traveling the Camino de Santiago with my 73-year-old father was a life-changing journey filled with awe-inspiring scenery, spiritual awakening, and lots of café con leche. Come with us as we travel physically, spiritually, and historically along this 500-mile Camino, through France to Spain. [Read More]

Susana Porras, a Pasadena native and the District Liaison for Pasadena City Councilmember John J. Kennedy, is also an inspired and inspiring poet. [Read More]

t’s a long way from Pasadena City Hall to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, but for District 3 Liaison/poet/writer Susana Porras, the path exists comfortably between the covers of her new book, To Compostela and Beyond! A Poet’s Chronicle of the Camino De Santiago. [Read More]

Susana Porras emcees the long-awaited grand opening of Pasadena’s Playhouse Village Park. [Watch Now]