Incumbent Karen Bass and 13 challengers are running for Los Angeles mayor.
Voters will choose the top two candidates in the June 2 primary election to advance to a November runoff, unless a candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the primary and automatically wins the office.

Sixty-one candidates are running to be California’s next governor.
Only two will advance to the November general election after Tuesday’s primary election – regardless of political party affiliation.

UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television plans to reverse a controversial proposed change to its undergraduate narrative directing program, professors said Wednesday.
Administrators from the School of Theater, Film and Television initially announced in a May 7 email that students taking Undergraduate Film Production – a required course for students in the narrative directing concentration – would collectively only be allowed to make a maximum of eight films.

UCPD arrested a man early Friday morning after he allegedly assaulted multiple people on UCLA’s campus.
The man allegedly stole a student’s cellphone on Bruin Walk and fled to the Hill where he attempted to sexually assault multiple students between 11:35 p.m.

Researchers across academic disciplines should work together to address the negative impacts of human interactions with and educate people about marine ecosystems, ocean preservation activists said at a May 21 event.

The Graduate Students Association criticized UCLA Housing’s decision to convert Weyburn Terrace into undergraduate housing, alleging a lack of input from graduate students.
UCLA Housing is converting Weyburn Terrace into undergraduate housing over the next three years, it announced in a Jan.

About 12,000 employees joined a union representing UC academic student employees, postdoctoral students and academic researchers May 19, making it the largest union in the UC.