Litong Deng

Nonprofit newsroom CalMatters is planning to sue UC Berkeley in an attempt to obtain public records data about how much the campus is paying its athletes. CalMatters’ initial attempts to obtain this information through public records requests were rejected by UCLA and UC Berkeley, both of which cited student-athlete privacy as well as not wanting teams and players to be put at a competitive disadvantage.

A major earthquake just south of the Bay Area is more likely than previously thought, according to new research. The speed at which the Santa Cruz Mountains portion of the northern San Andreas Fault moves - also known as the fault's slip rate - is faster than earlier estimates suggested, according to research by San Jose State University professor Kim Blisniuk, an earthquake geologist. Faster faults generally have more frequent earthquakes than equivalent slower-moving faults.