Candy bars and other sweets are displayed in the candy aisle of a convenience store in Austin on March 11, 2026. Beginning April 1, people will not be allowed to purchase candy and certain sweetened ...

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The Berkeley City Council has adopted "The Berkeley Rule," a new policy framework for the ethical use of artificial intelligence in city government, city officials announced Thursday. Approved on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A state board considering whether to prohibit the main food assistance program in Colorado from paying for most sweetened drinks punted its decision until ...

Nevada will now block SNAP recipients from using food benefits to buy candy or sugar‑sweetened drinks. The state joins 21 others who have received permission to restrict purchases of sweets with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shoppers who use SNAP benefits will see changes to what they can buy in 2026 and beyond. Twenty-two states are changing or will ...

The Fall Program for First Semester, a program that has supported thousands of freshmen over its 43-year history at UC Berkeley, is set to shut down. The recommendation was made last December by a ...

Zig-zagging around the glass-and-steel perimeter of the UC Berkeley Grimes Engineering Center, 36 thin metal rods could be what it takes to prevent the building’s total destruction. The rods are the ...

A 2024 letter reveals that even the President Biden administration urged Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey to clean up the state’s SNAP program, which was recently found by state and federal authorities ...

Berkeley Global Edge, a program that allows freshman students to take summer courses on campus and spend their first semester abroad in London, is officially sunsetting. The program hosted its final ...

People who receive SNAP will have to wait longer to use their benefits for rotisserie chickens after the state informed grocery stores that it is still waiting for a federal waiver to allow the ...