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The somewhat elusive Springfield Ditch Projects gallery opened its latest exhibit May 18, and it runs through June 15.

The causal relationships between lack of sleep and mood disorders remain murky. But one thing is clear as day: better sleep can have psychological benefits.

Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred joined students from four U.S. colleges and universities on Wednesday to announce the filing of federal complaints over how the higher-education institutions handle rape allegations.

For our June issue, we asked fifteen of the Bay Area's best writers to do something a little different.

Is our modern way of eating killing us and our sociability? Michael Pollan serves up an extra large helping of food for thought Pollan speculates about the growing resistance of micro-organisms to antibiotics, on our western diet rich in fats and carbohydrates Photograph: PR Despite the four recipes appended to it, Michael Pollan 's Cooked doesn't ... (more)

Collin Blair cheers as he and the rest of the graduates file onto the football field at the start of Ventura College's graduation ceremonies on campus Wednesday.

Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred says federal complaints have been filed against four U.S. colleges over how the colleges handle rape allegations.

Think you can read Charles Darwin's handwriting? Try deciphering this label on a beetle he collected in Tierra del Fuego in 1833.

More than 57,000 drivers were ticketed for handheld cell phone talking or texting during April's Distracted Driving Awareness Month, according to the California Office of Traffic Safety and the California Highway Patrol .

Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.

LEGIONS of disembodied brains floating in deep space threaten to undermine our understanding of the universe.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Patricia Guerrero and Michael J. Popkins to judgeships in the San Diego County Superior Court.

Why the fetish with native vs. non-native plants? Who gets to decide what the proper flora is for any specific location at any specific time? FEMA Plans Clear-Cutting 85,000 Berkeley and Oakland Trees - California Progress Report : The Federal Emergency Management Agency is moving to chop down 22,000 trees in Berkeley's historic Strawberry and ... (more)

Margaret Barry from Catholic University Columbus School of Law to Vermont Law School June Carbone from the University of Missouri, Kansas City to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul.

"First of all. Congratulations to all you graduates. It is not an easy or trouble free path that you pursued to arrive at this moment.

On a recent Saturday evening in Berkeley, eight vendors set up tables inside the Firehouse Art Collective's hangar-like event space to sell homemade food items, which ranged from chocolate chip cookies to jars of mustard and jam.

UC Berkeley on Monday plowed under a field planted by activists, the third time in just over a week the university has taken such an action.

An acoustic sensor is attached to an anchor rod securing a critical shear key on the new Bay Bridge Friday afternoon May 3, 2013.

The 2013 Maker Faire Bay Area came to the San Mateo County Event Center this past weekend.

About 16 percent of 2012 graduates from California law schools were unemployed and looking for work nine months after graduation, according to new data from the American Bar Association.