Stanford, California - A summer job can help boost academic performance in the classroom, a Stanford researcher says.

Berkeley, California - Californians strongly oppose “sanctuary city” policies under which local authorities ignore federal requests to detain undocumented immigrants who have been arrested but are about to be released, according to a new poll released today by the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at UC Berkeley.

Berkeley, California - University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three-dimensional scan of Earth’s interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots that generate volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring September 7, 2015, as Labor Day in the State of California.

Berkeley, California - Californians support stronger efforts to fight climate change by requiring more electricity to come from renewable resources and cutting gasoline use in half, according to a new poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS).

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills.