California

Union-represented workers are walking out for an indefinite period of time after negotiations over their compensation and other issues stalled.

Researchers scramble to adapt as bouts of severe heat and aridity increasingly become the norm.

Members of newly certified workers’ organizations at campuses across the US speak about how they achieved official recognition and what they’re planning for the years ahead.

The researchers who constructed the first reference genome for this critically endangered mollusk say it will assist restoration efforts.

In Northern California, the proportion of ticks infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi was the same in shrubland along beaches as in woodland habitats.

The state will take on additional debt to finance CIRM, which will now continue to fund stem cell research, training, and clinical trials.

If approved, Proposition 14 would authorize the state to sell $5.5 billion in bonds to extend the life of CIRM, which funds stem cell research. The ballot measure has its critics.

The mountain is home to two historic telescopes and many other scientific instruments, along with a billion dollars’ worth of broadcast transmission towers.

Flames and smoke have killed dozens of people over the past month and burned hundreds of thousands of acres, causing massive disruptions.

Thousands of acres have burned across the northern part of the state, forcing the evacuation of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and posing a serious threat to Lick Observatory.

The retired University of California, Santa Cruz, professor was known for his work on invertebrate reproduction, kelp ecology, and Antarctic marine life.

The public university system in California joins a number of colleges planning a virtual semester to minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19.

Autopsies recently carried out in California show that one person died of the disease on February 6—three weeks before the nation recorded its first fatality.

Under an area-wide “shelter in place” order, scientists at some of the world’s leading universities scramble to continue working while confined to their homes.

More cases emerge across the country as the global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 3,000.

The utility company PG&E has cut electricity to much of the Bay Area as a preventive measure.

Bats are infected with the microbe that causes white-nose syndrome, but the disease itself has not shown up.

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has been funding research since it formed in 2004, giving out nearly $3 billion in grants to date.

The state’s Environmental Protection Agency says that evidence of the chemical’s link to neurological problems in children is overwhelming.