By Derek Lipkin BRUIN SENIOR STAFF [email protected] Since February 2003, rebel groups in the Darfur region of Sudan have been in conflict with the Sudanese government over accusations that the government favors Arabs over black Sudanese citizens. Read more...

The California state budget for the upcoming fiscal year signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger incorporates numerous vetoes and adjustments by the governor, including the reduction of $3.8 million in funding from a statewide initiative for labor studies departments at University of California campuses. Read more...

A proposed street-use ordinance tax, which some Westwood Village Farmers’ Market vendors said would force them to close their stalls, has been modified and now exempts all farmers’ market vendors. Read more...

A judge’s order blocked the University of California nurses’ scheduled July 21 strike, requiring the nurses’ union and the UC to attend legal proceedings in August before a strike can be reconsidered. Read more...

Deise Ponce, a UC Santa Barbara student, showed up shortly before 4 a.m., a full four hours before the Spanish Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard opened its doors. Read more...

The University of California and California State University systems last week selected Cdigix, a provider of legal digital media, to offer broadband-based digital entertainment to campuses that decide to use it, according to a CSU press release. Read more...

As the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. begins, it will be up to the nation’s senators to decipher who this largely unknown federal judge is and where he stands on today’s most divisive issues. Read more...