Southern California wildfires have been occurring year-round and similar trends are expected in the upcoming year. Read more...

On Dec. 22, State Controller John Chiang sent a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warning legislators of the consequences of California's $42 billion budget deficit. Read more...

California Attorney General Jerry Brown recently filed a lawsuit against the Bush administration for provisions made to the Endangered Species Act on Dec. 30, causing UCLA students and researchers to have mixed feelings. Read more...

The Afghan Students Association West, an organization created this past summer which consists of all college Afghan clubs across California, held a statewide clothing and supply drive to aid Afghanistan's youth and families over the past few months. Read more...

The new year comes with a lot of new changes, not all of which are positive for national and state economies, according to Anderson economists and the recent UCLA Anderson Forecast final quarterly report of 2008. Read more...

Associated Students UCLA is steadily moving forward into the new year with its construction projects, though the opening dates of many of the projects have been pushed back to later in the year. Read more...