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Sunscreen can help reduce the risk of skin cancer, but people forget to apply it.

CA OLIVE OIL BOOM ARTOIS, Calif. - An oil boom is underway in the state's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend toward healthy fare have transformed a profession as old as civilization: olive production for the extra virgin market.

A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon.

Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile.

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Instead of getting arrested, dozens of UC Davis students marched through campus chanting and yelling about the fee hike of 32 percent.

The corporate glass ceiling remains firmly in place at companies based in California, according to a study released Wednesday.

In a striking scene of civil disobedience, dozens of students barricaded themselves inside a UC Berkeley building for more than 11 hours Friday to protest a 32-percent hike in student fees, sparking a tense standoff that swelled to hundreds.

Dressed in riot gear, University of California, Davis police officers stand near the entrance of Mrak Hall on the U.C. Davis campus on Thursday, November 19, 2009 as student sit in protest of the U.C. Board of Regents decision to raise student fees.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- A group of UC-Santa Cruz students who have occupied Kerr Hall during the protest of a 32 percent fee increase issued a list of demands on Friday.

University of California's full board of regents voted today to raise fees for undergraduate students by 32 percent in two steps over the coming year.

The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state.

A new study of maize has identified thousands of diverse genes in genetically inaccessible portions of the genome.

The UC Davis Health System took its beef with Sacramento County over unpaid care for the indigent to court Thursday.

About 200 students protested a 32 percent increase in undergraduate student fees at UC Davis on Thursday, . The University of California regents on Thursday approved the increase, despite protests by hundreds of demonstrators outside the regents' meeting at UCLA.

Listen to the report In California, just 10.6 percent of board seats and executive positions of top corporations are held by women.

"The Twilight Saga" of books and films has millions of teenage and preteen fans, but its controversial themes have sparked a debate over its place in the classroom.

The corporate glass ceiling remains firmly in place at companies based in California, according to a study released Wednesday.

Texting people to remind them to wear sunscreen daily actually works, research shows.

The City Council approved an ordinance Tuesday banning the declawing of cats in Los Angeles.