Class waitlists cause stress for students and faculty alike at the start of every quarter.
Class waitlists are designed to offer flexibility and manage limited seats for popular classes until the second week of the quarter, according to the UCLA Registrar’s office.

Hundreds of Westwood residents celebrated Lunar New Year with an afternoon of cultural activities in Broxton Plaza on Feb. 21.
The Westwood Village Improvement Association hosted the inaugural celebration from noon to 5 p.m.

Several UCLA students were supposed to move into an off-campus apartment on Glenrock Avenue for the 2025-26 school year. The building’s developer, however, told them weeks before the start of fall that the property was not ready – the students would have to find another building to live in for the school year.

Zero-emission vehicles accounted for 29.1% of all new car purchases in California in the third quarter of 2025, marking progress in the state’s goals of achieving a fully clean-energy future.

Kimberly Saavedra, a graduate student in social welfare, said her family felt the impact of pauses to CalFresh, California’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

This post was updated Oct. 28 at 10:53 p.m.
UCLA budget cuts have forced student-led tour organizations to reduce the frequency of their tours and limit working hours, student employees said.

This post was updated Oct. 1 at 1:53 a.m.
A 17-story office building in Westwood is set to be converted to 320 new apartment units.
Douglas Emmett – a real estate investment trust that owns and operates office buildings and apartment complexes in Southern California and Honolulu – acquired the property, located at 10900 Wilshire Blvd., from Tishman Speyer for $131 million in January.

This August marked the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the landmark United States federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting.
But six decades later, many of its protections are at risk as lawmakers and court judges across the country challenge its constitutional provisions.

Noodle St., a California-based restaurant chain started by Chinese immigrants in 2017, has opened a location on Weyburn Avenue.
The Westwood location features an open kitchen that allows customers to watch the chefs pull, cut and shape the noodles that are served.

Residents in some neighborhoods of Los Angeles live in food deserts, creating systematic barriers to healthy eating.
The nonprofit organization Food Empowerment Project defines a “food desert” as a geographic area that lacks or has limited access to nutritious and affordable food, often forcing residents to rely on cheap, unhealthy fast food options.