On the first day of school Wednesday at Las Palmas Elementary in San Clemente, 722 students flooded the campus as the school's enrollment has been boosted by 72 this year due to a growing dual-language program that began more than a decade ago. "It's...

Four years after opening, San Juan Hills High School is less of a ghost town, students say, and Wednesday, the campus welcomed its first graduating class. On the first day of school, the student body totaled about 2,000, with 500 new ones arriving...

Dear Straight Talk: I'm leaving for college this week and am nervous about finances. I have taken out loans, a grant helps with my dorm and tuition, but there's not enough to cover everything. Through high school I had to pay my own bills, so I don't...

FULLERTON – As the semester begins, Cal State Fullerton students are starting to see the on-the-ground consequences of massive state cuts to the system. Some are scrambling for scarce openings in classes they need for their majors – locking out...

E. Alison Holman, a nurse researcher, health psychologist and assistant professor in the nursing science program at UCI has won a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study how genetic susceptibility influences acute and post-traumatic...

Q. With last year's H1N1 and this year's whooping cough outbreak, schools should be doing everything they can to prevent the spread of germs. Peter Sheldon of Coverall can discuss the top five germiest places in schools and the measures your school...