A group of eight University of California students filed a class-action lawsuit against the UC Board of Regents on July 24, claiming the UC breached contracts made with students when raising student fees. Read more...

As the California legislature argues over how to cope with a $38 billion shortfall, the state budget deadlock claimed another casualty last week ““ a financial aid grant that is distributed to over 220,000 college and junior college students. Read more...

The UCLA Library will cancel over 1,400 academic journals and database subscriptions this coming year as it faces budget cuts and serial price inflation. Associate University Librarian Cynthia Shelton said the cancellations ““ the first of their kind in over five years ““ are expected to save $450,000 at a time when the budget outlook for coming years is unpromising. Read more...

Suddenly California ““ the “Left Coast,” that bastion of liberal politics ““ is held hostage by a few right-wing activists who can’t accept election results. After the right combination of millions of dollars, professional signature gatherers and a fiscal disaster managed to mobilize the small portion of voters necessary to demand a recall, Lt. Read more...

In the early 10th century, a Spanish bishop and 200 monks made a pilgrimage to a small monastic church in the holy town of Santiago de Compostela, where the body of the Apostle St. Read more...