Students at the University of California are paying more for their education than ever before, with fees increasing at record rates over the past few years. Read more...

Its detractors will tell you a stroll through the Westwood Village farmers’ market is like walking into a briar patch. Its supporters will say you’ve found the yellow brick road. Read more...

The University of California Students Association announced last week that it registered 30,000 new voters for the Nov. 2 election. In a highly anticipated and hotly contested election, voter registration has increased across the country compared to previous presidential elections. Read more...

The Associated Students of UCLA board of directors voted Friday to end Taco Bell’s contract on campus, settling once and for all a nearly yearlong debate over the eatery’s place at UCLA. Read more...

Former Pepsi employee murders supervisor SACRAMENTO “”mdash; A former bottling plant employee was arrested Saturday in the fatal shooting of his supervisor, a father of five who was gunned down on his doorstep in the middle of the night, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department said. Read more...

Leaving her alcoholic father behind in Mexico City, Nora and the rest of her family crossed the Mexico/California border illegally one night, about 11 years ago. Read more...

Proposition 66 will help fix the draconian three-strikes law which has unjustly put thousands in prison for 25 years to life. Proposition 66’s biggest change will require an individual’s third strike to be “serious or violent.” Currently, any felony counts as the third strike and nearly 60% of current third-strike inmates are serving for non-violent, non-serious offenses. Read more...