By Mikhail Zinshteyn for CalMatters The University of California is eyeing a looming budget gap of half a billion dollars next year. To help balance…
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The leaders of the UC and CSU systems both have medical backgrounds – and both are detailing why they’re committed to a return to in-person…
Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House. Carmen Maria Machado’s 2017 National Book Award nominated short story…
By Scott Thomas Anderson The Southern Sea Otter has been fighting for its survival along California’s coast for 40 years. First imperiled by reckless oil…
The news spread like wildfire in April 2018: A site near Sacramento’s Oak Park district had been chosen for Aggie Square, a megaproject that promised…
In mid-2018, Bill Motmans received an invitation he couldn’t refuse. The Tahoe Park resident was asked to serve on a committee that would help guide…
It may not fly through the air like George Jetson’s car, but the new bus service on the Yolo Causeway is all electric—and a sign…
Local garden groups nixed fundraisers during the pandemic, but still must tend to plants Nature didn’t take a time out. Plants continue to grow during…
A Vietnam refugee turned psychologist offers her own painful journey in new memoir By Scott Thomas Anderson Several years ago, a psychologist at UC Davis…
The promise and pitfalls of Aggie Square in Oak Park The housing crisis came for Tanya Faison on Dec. 13. That day, the founder of…
UC Davis Arboretum’s bountiful sales lure gardeners Maybe it’s pent-up demand or a need to plant something new. But when the Arboretum Teaching Nursery at…
A bee sanctuary at UC Davis faces funding crunch Honey bees aren’t the only ones at risk. So is their Yolo County haven. Officially named…
Thoroughbred racing returns to California State Fair after a spate of fatalities California horse racing has a lot riding on what happens this summer in…
Countless cases of mistaken identity this month got butterfly lovers excited. “With all the publicity given to the collapse of the California monarch population, I…
Despite persistent stereotypes, women are crafting their course in the local beer scene Dressed in maroon overalls and work boots, the head brewer of Crooked Lane…
One time I was driving about 35 mph through a residential neighborhood when a suicidal squirrel that had safely crossed the street deliberately doubled back…