Los Angeles
Feb. 13, 2026 7:37 p.m.
Leon and Toby Gold Hall of the UCLA Anderson School of Management is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
About 300 people attended the 2026 Innovate Tech Conference at UCLA on Friday to learn about how entrepreneurs can use autonomous artificial intelligence.
The conference featured speakers with experience using agentic AI, including Mihir Vaidya, the chief strategy officer of Electronic Arts, and Gene Alston, an Ancestry.com board member.
By Prannay Veerabahu
California
Feb. 7, 2026 10:43 p.m.Luskin School holds panel on civil and immigrant rights, prosecuting ICE agents
This post was updated Feb. 8 at 10:01 p.m.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said California will prosecute federal immigration enforcement officers who violate residents’ constitutional rights at a Thursday UCLA event.
By Josephine Murphy and Gemma Gentin
Fire
Feb. 5, 2026 2:21 p.m.Car crashes into 99 Ranch Market, killing at least 3 people, injuring at least 6
This post was updated Feb. 5 at 11:36 p.m.
A car crashed into the 99 Ranch Market on Westwood Boulevard on Thursday, killing three people and injuring at least six.
Two blocks of Westwood Boulevard – from Wilkins Avenue to Wellworth Avenue – were completely blocked off as of 1:50 p.m., along with the intersecting block of Rochester Avenue.
By Maggie Konecky and Zimo Li
California
Feb. 3, 2026 11:07 p.m.LA County Sheriffs yet to ban license plate data sharing with federal agencies
Los Angeles County Sheriffs have not banned sharing license plate data with immigration enforcement agencies, despite a 2016 law prohibiting state police from sharing these images with the federal government.
By Phoebe Huss
Los Angeles
Feb. 2, 2026 7:48 p.m.Epstein files reveal emails between alumnus Casey Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell
This post was updated Feb. 3 at 11:01 p.m.
UCLA donor and alumnus Casey Wasserman exchanged emails with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s, according to the latest release of the Epstein files.
By Josephine Murphy
Los Angeles
Jan. 31, 2026 8:18 p.m.Students, community members participate in Westwood homeless count
Community members documented the number of people experiencing homelessness in Westwood as part of a larger Los Angeles wide count Jan. 22.
Both first-time volunteers and returners – including UCLA students and faculty – participated in the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, an annual three-day count of the amount of people experiencing homelessness within different LA communities.
By Avital Abramov
A Closer Look
Jan. 30, 2026 4:50 p.m.LA Fires Research Conference fosters discussion on fire survivors’ experiences
More than half of tested homes in Los Angeles county fire-impacted communities had unsafe contaminant levels one year after the January 2025 fires, a survivor advocacy group said at the first annual LA Fires Research Conference on Jan.
By Nicholas Mouchawar
Campus
Jan. 29, 2026 10:46 p.m.Students gather for vigil honoring people killed by federal agents
This post was updated Feb. 2 at 12:15 a.m.
More than 200 people gathered at a Thursday vigil to honor people killed amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
The event – organized in part by the Afrikan Student Union, Bruin Democrats and members of the Undergraduate Students Association Council – was scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.
By Maggie Konecky and Victor Simoes
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