California
The 23-campus Cal State University system is shifting its goalpost. Four-year degrees are still important but so are good jobs as consumers question the value of college.
Nov. 3, 2024
Watch L.A.
Oct. 8, 2024
A comparison of Michigan and California shows how one state can have a booming cannabis economy while another’s still feels like a pipe dream.
Aug. 30, 2024
Monday’s magnitude 4.4 earthquake — centered near Highland Park — came with an early warning from California’s quake alert system.
Aug. 12, 2024
More than 5.4 million early-warning phone alerts went out Tuesday for the magnitude 5.2 quake that struck near Bakersfield in Kern County.
Aug. 9, 2024
UC Santa Barbara is the 2025 top party school in America, according to an education research and ranking site.
Aug. 24, 2024
Climate & Environment
The California Climate Information System, or CalCIS, would have made California the first state to create an open-source, continually refreshed climate hub.
June 28, 2024
The former president of this Orange County school helped affluent students enter USC as walk-on athletes — a route that the university now acknowledges as fraud.
Nov. 8, 2024
Here’s a novel idea: Don’t spend money until you’ve got it. Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed that as a way to head off future crippling state budget deficits.
May 13, 2024
An upgrade to California’s earthquake early-warning system using GPS data will allow more timely alerts about shaking and better estimate the magnitude of a megaquake.
June 5, 2024