Central Valley

Formerly incarcerated students at UC Berkeley face barriers to education. A majority of them are Latine, who are overrepresented in California prisons. 

A study from researchers at UC Berkeley and Virginia Tech found high levels of arsenic in many low-income communities in the Central Valley. 

The union members want California’s largest HMO to wake up and confront the mental health crisis surging in our state and across the nation.

When campus alumnus Kristen Hwang logged onto a zoom call with the other Student Academy Awards finalists in September, she was not expecting to hear that her thesis film, “When They’re Gone,” had won the top prize for a documentary film.  

There is a fundamental disconnect between the resources given to the agriculture industry and the benefit it provides to California.

Being in Berkeley this summer has me thinking about what I miss about the summer heat. But here's the catch — I don't really miss too much about it.

For people of color, the pandemic has brought disproportionate risk linked to environmental burdens that compromise the health of people in sacrifice zones.

President Donald Trump may be falling behind former vice president Joe Biden with moderate conservative voters in California, according to a poll conducted by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies.

If we want to really change the environmental degradation we are seeing, we need to push for more serious action, such as the Green New Deal.

The decrease of tule fog in the Central Valley is linked to a decrease in air pollution, according to a study published by UC Berkeley researchers March 28.