A $100 million development planned for a quiet corner of Westwood Village has generated bitter opposition in the local community. The project ““ called Palazzo Westwood ““ would be built by Casden-Glendon, a development firm headed by multi-millionaire developer Alan Casden. Read more...

Housing fee increases have doubled this year due to the construction of the new Rieber North, Rieber West and Hedrick North residence halls. Fees increased by 7 to 8 percent from the previous year; last year the increase was between 3 and 4 percent. Read more...

When UCLA student Daniela Conde and fellow immigrant worker activists for the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride were stopped by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas two weeks ago, Conde overcame her fears. Read more...

Amid their own round of budget woes, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced plans to cover tuition and fees for all low-income students beginning next fall. Read more...

The military’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday for a case which has the potential to strike down the military’s criminalization of sex between two individuals of the same gender. Read more...

Even though Proposition 54 was defeated in Tuesday’s recall election by a wide margin, University of California Regent Ward Connerly, the man who introduced the initiative, said he will try to revive the issue by introducing a rewritten version of the proposition in the future. Read more...

Based on Food and Drug Administration regulations set in 1985, any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 is under a lifelong ban from donating blood or blood products. Read more...