This post was updated Jan. 15 at 12:23 a.m.
Small tears formed in Michelle Leon’s eyes as she talked about the many lost homes Monday after fires burned for nearly a week across Los Angeles County.

A Republican entrepreneur is challenging a Democrat incumbent to represent California Assembly District 51 this election.
District 51 spans from Griffith Park to Universal City and encompasses Westwood, Beverly Hills and Hollywood, housing major production and entertainment companies.

After months of negotiation, librarians have a new contract with the UC for higher wages and additional benefits.
The UC announced Tuesday that it agreed to contract changes for librarians after 11 months of bargaining with the University Council-American Federation of Teachers – a union representing UC librarians and non-tenured faculty members.

I sat before the Washington Monument on a humid June afternoon, mulling over the surreal presidential election barrelling our way in less than half a year.

This post was updated April 10 at 10:01 p.m.
A new bill passed through the state assembly committee Tuesday could allow for the establishment of on-campus job opportunities for students without legal immigrant status in the UC.

This post was updated March 3 at 10:27 p.m.
Members of the Asante Kingdom welcomed representatives of the Fowler Museum to Ghana to return several cultural items that were unethically collected over a century before.

This post was updated Feb. 19 at 11:00 p.m.
Double Bruin alumnus Nathalie Rayes sat down with the Daily Bruin’s Christopher Buchanan to discuss her newly appointed role as United States ambassador to Croatia.

UCLA faculty and union leaders discussed the recent California State University faculty strike, which ended Jan. 22 with a new contract.
The California Faculty Association – a labor union representing 29,000 lecturers, professors, counselors, librarians, coaches and other faculty in the CSU – planned a weeklong strike after over half a year of failed negotiations with the CSU to amend previous contracts and raise faculty wages.

Sixty-two years after Gonzalo Freixes fled Cuba with his family, UCLA finally gave him a chance to return.
When arriving to host a global immersion course in the country, Freixes, an associate dean and adjunct professor of accounting in the UCLA Anderson School of Management, said he had a nostalgic return to his native country, which he realized had developed little since his departure.

The 99 Ranch Market Bakery and Cafe did not rise to the occasion of the grocery store’s grand opening.
99 Ranch Market officially opened its highly anticipated Westwood location last Wednesday on the cross section of Rochester Avenue and Westwood Boulevard.