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By Nanette Asimov The California Senate leader’s new proposal for approving online courses suitable for public colleges and universities — an idea that captured national attention last week — is a bust, says the very group considered critical to the process: faculty leaders from the University of California. “There is no possibility that UC faculty will […]
By Henry K. Lee An engineer who graduated from UC Davis threatened in an email to use his purported military sniper training to kill state Sen. Leland Yee, authorities said in newly released court documents. “I can wait hidden for you to walk past my mil dot scope,” Everett Basham, 45, wrote in an email […]
By Stephanie M. Lee Women who were exposed in the womb to a pesticide that pervaded the United States until it was banned four decades ago were found in a new study to have an increased risk of developing high blood pressure before age 50. The pesticide, known as DDT, was widely used for insect […]
By Nanette Asimov It used to be that if you wanted to get something for nothing — something really, really good — all you had to do was enroll in the University of California. Now, if any UC student doubts that the days of something for nothing are long gone, a plan for the UC […]
On your next trip to North Tahoe or Reno, take the 10-mile side trip at Soda Springs on historic U.S. 40/Lincoln Highway. You get spectacular views of Donner Lake and the high Sierra, access to three ski parks – all completely different – and a side trip to a pretty cove at Donner Lake and […]
By Caleb Garling Working remotely has long been a sort of utopian vision of employment. And today, with computers and smartphones able to connect us, we can easily escape arduous commutes and cramped offices and get jobs done from the comfort of the couch or even the beach. Yet the idea has not caught fire […]
By Kevin Fagan OAKLAND — Molly Greenberg loved the horse-and-buggy rigs as a child in New York, even as the new-fangled Model T car was becoming popular. Women didn’t have the right to vote when she was born in 1912, and their life expectancy was 56 years. One hundred years later, she’s had the last […]
By Stacy Finz California may be known for its exceptional surf, its fine weather and, of course, Hollywood, but there is one more thing the state wants to be known for, and it’s taking to the highways and byways to get the message out. Starting in March, there will be a new California agriculture license […]
By Peter Fimrite The days may be numbered for soda-slurping tourists in flip-flops who enjoy parking their sport utility vehicles under the giant sequoias of Yosemite and tromping around in human herds amid theme-park-style trams, car exhaust and noise. The National Park Service on Tuesday released its long-awaited environmental review of plans to restore the […]
By Drew Joseph California’s young immigrants who have been granted reprieves to stay in the country stand to gain little from the federal health reform law that the state Legislature is working to implement. The Affordable Care Act excludes illegal immigrants from accessing the law’s benefits, but some immigrant and health advocates are angry that […]
By Carolyn Lochhead WASHINGTON — Electric cars are at a fork in the road, with oblivion lying in one direction and the mass market in the other. A woeful tale splayed across the pages of the New York Times on Feb. 8 of a dead Tesla electric sedan getting towed in wintry Connecticut did not seem […]
