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Although 25 administrators and professors at UC-Santa Cruz earned $200,000 or more in 2008, the campus has the lowest faculty salaries of all nine of the University of California's undergraduate campuses, according to salary information released recently by the university.

The inspector general's report shows two days after U.C. Berkeley police first questioned Phillip Garrido, he was returned - as ordered - to his parole office for a meeting.

Love's Labour's Lost: Comedy. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole.

UC Berkeley alumnus and California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi captured the U.S. House of Representatives 10th Congressional District in a special election held Tuesday.

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star.

South Lake Tahoe resident Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted in front of her home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

The dirty little secret of the social networking business is that the quickest and easiest way to make money is to sell advertising to companies that scam their users.

New Film Takes Unprecedented Historic View of America's Wine Industry - 'America's Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition' Includes Interviews Which Chronicle The Rebuilding Of The Wine Industry And The Emergence Of A New American Wine Culture.

After a late night of texting or updating Facebook, it's hardly surprising that many teenagers show up groggy for school, which studies have shown can diminish academic performance.

An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.

Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, are crying foul about the millions of dollars in subsidies directed to the school's athletic department.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had an emotional meeting on Thursday with the families of three American hikers detained in Iran since late July and renewed appeals to Iranian authorities to release them.

For nearly six years, I have served on the Board of Trustees of the California State University system -- the last two as its chairman.

Long-Term Follow-Up Of Children Enrolled In Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer Program 'Oportunidades' Editor's Choice Main Category: Public Health Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST printer friendly view / write opinions rate article An article published Online First and in a future edition of The ...

When Jaycee Lee Dugard resurfaced in August, she denied being the 11-year-old girl kidnapped in 1991 and defended Phillip Garrido as a "great person." She became defensive as officers questioned her, then asked for a lawyer.

A college town crawling with people who really, really care about their food is a natural for a gastropub - an idea that's occurred to more than one entrepreneur in Berkeley.

The University of California-Santa Cruz could someday house the world's largest zoo - holding not live animals, but the genetic codes of 10,000 different creatures, many of them rare, exotic or extinct.

U.S. citizens now showing up at day-labor hiring sites Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 17:49 "It's the equivalent of selling apples in the Great Depression," said Harley Shaiken, chairman of the Center for Latin American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Former New Orleans recovery czar Ed Blakely, pictured here in 2007. Ed Blakely, Mayor Ray Nagin's hand-picked recovery czar, has issued his most damaging statements since leaving his post in June, calling New Orleans residents lazy, racist and its city workers largely illiterate.

When the sudden walkout comes during an economic downturn, it becomes more like a public relations nightmare.