UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, multifamily condos accounted for just 3 percent of the new housing the state added between 2011 and 2021, compared with 38 percent in Canada.

Some California colleges revealed their military weapons stockpiles after CalMatters investigation uncovered violations of college policies and state law. San Jose State University and San Francisco State University revealed they own AR-15s even though this is not authorized by CSU policy.

The judge has sided with scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling that the President used “unlawful coercion” against the University of California is the most sweeping yet.

Most plans to regulate data centers died in the state’s Legislature this year, despite a nationwide backlash. Two surviving bills aim to promote disclosure of energy and water use.

The Police Records Access Project database, now available to the public, contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases in California.

The growing strike may complicate matters for the more than 169,000 undergraduate students at six campuses as they wrap up instruction and take final exams.

The Berkeley Space Center will launch technological breakthroughs in fields such as astronautics, quantum computing, climate studies and social sciences, in facilities on 36 acres at NASA Ames.

The new law makes California the first state that will automatically seal most criminal records for those who complete their sentences.

The new law prevents cities from requiring new developments near public transit to set aside space specifically for parking.

About 150 scholars are vetted as of this month, and about a dozen universities are ready to offer jobs to qualified Afghan instructors. but only two scholars, both referred from San Jose State, have arrived, one at UC Berkeley, the other at the University of Texas at El Paso. 

Why is California building new houses in the path of wildfires? The housing market is dangerously hot, say UC scientists.

The study released last week found that women who had Covid-19 during their pregnancy were more than 50% more likely to experience complications.

Even low-income residents enrolled in the California Alternate Rates for Energy program paid more than the average American.

Hunger has long been a harsh reality in Silicon Valley, but the pandemic has broadened and deepened the destitution.

The coronavirus threatens to swell the ranks of poor Californians as restaurants, stores and other businesses shutter and workers stay home.

Lenny Mendonca, the governor’s chief economic and business advisor, said California is assessing the economic impact of the virus.