Woodland Community College has come into its own. The college, 10 miles north of UC Davis, received full accreditation on July 1, making it the 110th community college in California and the second college in the Yuba Community College District.

The University of California is in the process of planning for the implementation of a degree-granting School of Global Health, which is expected to receive funding and begin recruiting faculty in May of 2009.

Despite preventative efforts by the University of California and the Public Employment Relations Board, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299 service workers began a statewide strike Monday.

Members of the Sacramento community will have the chance to receive free health screenings this Saturday from the UC Davis School of Medicine’s student-run clinics at the 10th annual Ulezi Family Health Fair, part of the Oak Park Summer concert series.

It’s understandable, but it’s stifling – Davis tends to house students throughout their college careers, but never for much longer. It’s terrible for bands, in particular, which dissolve not long after their inceptions.

Amid a national housing crisis that has hit California especially hard, one might ask how the Davis market is doing – and the answer is debatable. “I don’t think Davis is immune to the housing bust at all,” said economics lecturer Erick Eschker. “You just have to look at the rest of California and the Bay Area.

If the French language is the universal language of love, then movie lovers will fall in love all over again at this year’s Sacramento French Film Festival. Created to introduce the Sacramento public to French films, the seventh annual film festival will open Friday with its opening night reception and open wine bar at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento.

Talking on your cell phone frequently could produce an expensive phone bill – but could it also give you cancer? For now, the answer is no. There have been several studies about the link between cell phones and brain cancer and many of them have pointed toward the negative.

Honeybees do more than sting you. Without them, you wouldn’t get to eat your favorite fruits, nuts and ice cream flavors. And due to a recent mysterious decline in honeybee colonies, you may actually be losing more than that.

Local officials have taken the first steps toward developing an off-road bikeway between the cities ofDavis andWoodland.The Davis City Council voted Tuesday night to help fund a study examining the possibility of an alternative transportation corridor between the two cities.

Closed-session meeting The council met in closed-session for labor negotiations with Firefighters Local3494.

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