City News

Downtown Davis will be a bit noisy today. Contractors are grinding the asphalt on Second Street, from B to G Street and the streets will be closed to traffic. Parts of E Street, from Second to Third Street, will also be worked on. Construction is expected to last all of today and maybe tomorrow, though the streets will be open to traffic starting in the early evening.

Forever 21 is finally open. The women’s apparel store, located in the University Mall, held its grand-opening on Saturday morning, provoking college and middle school students alike to sleep outside of the store in anticipation. The store offered gift cards, ranging from $10 to $210, to the first 200 visitors.

Where did the owners of the new Inconvenient Store on B Street come up with its name?

California State University (CSU) officials are examining the possibility of cutting enrollment by 10,000 students, beginning with the upcoming 2011-2012 academic year.

U.S. poison control centers all over the nation are receiving reports of sickness in people taking the non-prescription drug potassium iodide (KI) to ward off possible internal contamination from radioactive waste.

Tired of your old toilet? Looking for a way to save on your water bill? Look no further than the new toilet rebate program, approved by the Davis City Council earlier this month. The program would provide a rebate for the purchase and installation of a high-efficiency toilet, in an effort to decrease water consumption. To be eligible for the program, residents must live in a pre-1993 single family home with an old toilet that uses 3.5 gallons per flush (gpf) or more.

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At a Congressional hearing earlier this month, higher education officials urged lawmakers to delay the planned July 1 implementation of new U.S. Department of Education regulations. These regulations would expand state authorization requirements and establish a federal definition of “credit hour.”

The Education Abroad Center (EAC) cancelled the spring Japanese Language and Culture program in response to the earthquake in Japan on March 11. Twenty-seven students were enrolled in the program, which would have started in Kyoto, Japan last Saturday.

The federal government wants to open a drug rehabilitation facility for Native American teens. The center would occupy 12 acres of American Indian land, near Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University, locally known as D-Q University.

The Ho Patrol, the Ohio Street Watch Dogs and the Kentucky Street Watch Owls are three of Vallejo’s neighborhood watch groups that have one thing in common.

Starting this week, the Wednesday Davis Farmers Market will be accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. The Saturday market started accepting the card on Jan. 8.