Housing plan for weathy Berkeley neighborhoods faces backlash
A half-dozen businesses along College Avenue in the Elmwood District displayed posters opposing a plan to change zoning…
Berkeley teacher scammed of her $70,000 life savings
Special education teacher Danielle White, 31, lost her life savings to phone scammers in October. Credit: Danielle White…
How Berkeley Unified is responding to SNAP cuts
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Comic Con, square dancing, Hungarian desserts
We work for you — reporting on the stories our community needs. Our journalists attend city council and…
Civilian oversight of Berkeley police is hitting a wall
Berkeley police officers, on the job in 2022. The city’s police officers union has been among those negotiating…
East Bay advocates reflect on immigration enforcement surge that wasn’t
Protesters gather in Oakland near the bridge to Coast Guard Island, which is situated in the channel between…
Neighbors paint street mural on Halloween to celebrate community
Dozens of Berkeley neighbors spent Friday painting a colorful sanctuary-themed street mural on the 1700 block of Virginia…
Feds rounded up immigrants and held them on Coast Guard Island in 1980s
Undocumented immigrants wait to be deported on Coast Guard Island, then called Government Island, on April 27, 1982.…
How to use, support Berkeley food banks during shutdown
Volunteers work to sort donated food at the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood on…
Berkeley, Oakland residents bracing for delay in SNAP benefits in November
Toward the end of the month, Lawrence Jeffries usually has about $200 left. The former auto painter lives…
UC Berkeley student found guilty of stealing chickens from Perdue
Animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg, who is on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue Farms’…
A federal agent shot a pastor in the face with toxic chemicals. What can be done?
Rev. Jorge Bautista showed up to Dennison Road in East Oakland early in the morning of Oct. 23…