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Nickolas Mclean, junior business administration and theater major, and Isela Chavez, sophomore legal studies and French major, were recently elected as president and executive vice president of the Associated Students of the University of La Verne for the 2022-2023 school year.

The University of La Verne continues to expand into Ontario with plans to build a new College of Health and Community Well-Being, and a $40 million loan from the city of Ontario to fund it.

As the University of La Verne wraps up its first full year back since the COVID-19 pandemic threw the University, with most of higher education, into the unknown territory of remote learning for more than a year, the traditional undergraduate population of this Hispanic Serving Institution has remained mostly intact.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency on April 27, and issued a one-day-a-week outdoor watering restriction for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties, which is home to about 6 million southern Californians effective June 1. 

The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement, or MORE, act, which was approved by Congress and awaiting a Senate hearing, would decriminalize marijuana use, manufacturing and distribution and possession at the federal level.

The California Air Resources Board has begun drafting the Advanced Clean Cars II Proposal,  a set of regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the number of zero-emission vehicles for sale.