The 20 percent cut in state funding to the University of California system is not trivial and will substantially affect the lives of many students and faculty members.

As temperatures rise, so do smog levels. The haze is unavoidable, disgusting and, most importantly, probably killing you.The Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County area is the No. 1 worst metropolis in ozone air pollution in the United States.

It’s the first day of a physics class, and students file into a giant lecture hall, weighed down with heavy required readings and questions about syllabi, midterms, finals and grades. Everyone is prepared for the painstaking but unavoidable grind of learning difficult material.

The lives of Nadya Suleman and her family have become a public spectacle since Suleman gave birth to octuplets on Jan. 26.

There’s something I’ve wanted to say since it became obvious that Barack Obama would be the Democratic nominee for president, but I’ve been keeping it inside: Hillary Clinton is awesome, and I love her.

UCLA can add another record-breaker to its list of sports statistics: largest SAT score gap between athletes and non-athletes.

Gov. Schwarzenegger’s declaration last week that California is officially in a fiscal emergency has forced the legislature to focus its full attention on the state’s $11.2 billion deficit.

When the top executives from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler came to Washington, D.C., to beg Congress for a bailout last week, they flew in on private jets. It’s hard to feel a lot of sympathy for the Big Three’s plight.