SACRAMENTO, Calif — California has launched a new rating system to help people prepare for extreme heat events in the state, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the launch of a new, first-in-the-nation tool to forecast and rank heat severity in ...

West Hollywood’s annual three-day Pride Weekend begins Friday night with a free music festival. Grammy-winning ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 14, 2025 — Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) is proud to announce its 76th Annual Commencement ...

A Palo Alto teen who was hired by Google for an alleged PhD-level position after being rejected by 16 colleges ... HSI designation requires at least 25% Hispanic student enrollment," the ...

The university ... Institution (HSI), officials said. In an HSI task force report, UCLA has “yet to achieve equity in representation and reflect the cultural diversity of California.” ...

Gibson did not provide any further information. An HSI agent wrote in the search warrant affidavit that three years ago, the agency began looking into suspected drug traffickers in the San Diego area.

Joe joined Newsweek in April 2024 after graduating from City, University ... California, including Los Angeles County, have been designated as fire hazard zones under updated maps released on ...

That’s home to roughly 3.7 million people, according to a CalMatters analysis which combined the maps with finegrain population estimates from University of California researchers. That means ...

The University of California system celebrates five of its nine undergraduate campuses as HSI-designated. These taxpayer-funded institutions use the federal MSI designation to claim exemptions ...

She is a graduate in Broadcast Journalism from Nottingham Trent University ... The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Cal Fire, released new draft maps this week showing ...