Certainly, many employers are recognizing the business benefits of people working together in an office at least a few days per week, but widespread employee protests have shown that implementing that return is going to be an uphill battle. So what do you do as an employer who’s ready to make that call? And what rights do you have if your boss wants you back in a cubicle?

A festive grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting was held May 2 for Aggie Square, the $1.1 billion innovation center for UC Davis that has been eight years in the making.

Autism is neither a disease nor a sickness. But for the increasing population of those diagnosed — one in 31 children is the current count in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — it’s quite real. What might surprise you is that when it comes to learning about and managing autism, the Capital Region is very much in the forefront.

InnerPlant develops seed technology that turns crops into living sensors that detect stress (such as fungus, pathogens and nitrogen deficiency) at the molecular level before visible symptoms appear. The startup’s initial focus is a soybean engineered to emit a fluorescent optical signal within 48 hours of fungal infection.

While dollar donations are mission critical and help to keep the figurative lights on at many nonprofits, hands-on volunteers are also valuable — and the most in-demand type of volunteer role needed is board service. 

Architects are recognizing the advantages of using highly accessible generative AI apps like Midjourney, Claude.ai and Microsoft Copilot to test their design limits for the built environment, but they’re also taking a measured approach on integration and adoption into existing processes.

I have always had a bit of imposter syndrome, but now it is at an all-time high after changing industries. My strengths are not what this organization needs, but finding another job is very difficult. What should I do?

FROM THE PUBLISHER: The on-again/off-again saga of relocating the Sacramento Zoo from its longtime William Land Park location to the city of Elk Grove, a little under 13 miles away, had seemed like an idea whose time, available acreage, freeway access and enthusiastic support had come. Then it seemed like it hadn’t, and the project was unceremoniously killed. What happened?

KFF Health News: Health nonprofits and medical interpreters warn that federal cuts have eliminated dozens of positions in California for community workers who help non-English speakers sign up for insurance coverage and navigate the health care system.

Comstock’s 2024 stories, designs, photographs and illustrations took home two dozen awards in the California News Publishers Associations’ annual California Journalism Awards. Here are all our awards, with links to the winning content.