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June 18, 2024

EV maker Fisker in Manhattan Beach files for bankruptcy protection

By Michelle Chapman | The Associated Press Manhattan Beach’s electric-vehicle maker Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second electric startup to do so in the last year, as even industry leaders struggle to...

June 17, 2024

Status Update: CHOC, Casa Youth Shelter recipients of $4 million aimed at mental health

Casa Youth Shelter in Los Alamitos and CHOC are the recipients of $4 million in state funding aimed at tackling mental health in at-risk youth. Sen. Tom Umberg (34th District) recently presented $500,000 to youth...

June 15, 2024

UC Irvine renames School of Biological Sciences after $50 million from the biotech entrepreneur

UC Irvine will name its School of Biological Sciences for Charlie Dunlop after a $50 million donation from the Orange County biotech entrepreneur. Dunlop’s gift creates an endowed fund that officials said will provide unrestricted...

June 14, 2024

UCI kicks off weekend of commencement ceremonies

UC Irvine celebrated Friday morning its first of 12 commencement ceremonies taking place over the next few days. Chancellor Howard Gillman conferred degrees on nearly 700 graduates of the School of Education and School of...

June 14, 2024

UCI faculty want suspensions lifted for students involved with encampment until disciplinary hearings are completed

While students from the School of Social Sciences walked across the Bren Events Center stage Friday afternoon to celebrate commencement, approximately 170 faculty members in the UCI Academic Senate met online, many of them to...

June 15, 2024

Corky: Schooling others about the stoke of surfing

These days there are many surfing schools strewn up and down the coast of California and just about everyplace else that has any sort of wave to ride. I always say that if there is...

June 14, 2024

Irvine’s Great Park Live debuts Friday with tribute band, first commercial acts to play this fall

Live outdoor music returns to Irvine Friday at the new Great Park Live, an amphitheater that can seat 5,000 guests. The large grassy lawn in front of the stage will also host The Layover, a...

June 11, 2024

In-N-Out Burger says it raised prices because of minimum wage increase

In-N-Out Burger has confirmed TV reports that it has raised its prices in California. California’s minimum wage hike for fast food workers, which kicked in on April 1, was a factor in the price hike,...

June 11, 2024

Nearly half of UC Irvine bachelor’s degrees earned by first-generation students

UC Irvine will bestow more than 11,000 degrees this year, with a weekend of celebrations ahead as it hosts commencement ceremonies from Friday, June 14, through Monday, June 17, at the Bren Events Center. This...

June 11, 2024

UCI faculty call for independent investigation into administration’s decisions in May 15 protest

The UC Irvine Academic Senate is calling for an independent investigation into the administration’s crackdown of a protest at the on-campus Palestinian solidarity encampment on May 15, though a controversial vote to censure Chancellor Howard...