FILE - In this April 21, 2017, file photo, students walk past Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif. Credit: Ben Margot / AP Photo / via CapradioThe UC and CSU systems say they do not plan to raise tuition this fall because Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed hundreds of millions of dollars more than previous state budgets under former Gov. Jerry Brown.

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Via WikipediaGovernor Gavin Newsom's budget includes a tax to help provide disadvantaged communities safe drinking water.

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John King, a water resource engineer with the California Department of Water Resources, Snow Survey Section, inserts a long aluminum snow depth survey pole into the snow for the first DWR snow survey of the 2019 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Credit: Ken James / California Department of Water ResourcesThe Sierra Nevada is seeing an above average snowpack following recent storms. Snowpack is about 115-percent of average compared to last year's 23-percent at this date, according to electronic sensor readings.

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Thursday, January 24, 2019