May Day protests, Berkeley Bay Festival
Local artist Cathy Raingarden’s sketches made at local rallies, marches and overpass demonstrations will be featured in an…
New bar is the hip younger sibling to Berkeley’s most famous restaurant
Berkeley has plenty of bars, but relatively few that focus on carefully crafted cocktails. Many lean toward student…
400 trees to be axed in Berkeley’s Aquatic Park for railroad project
The revival of a dormant railroad track abutting West Berkeley’s Aquatic Park will help Union Pacific maintain train…
These students are leading the fight against phones
Students at UC Berkeley set up handwritten signs and played a variety of games during a phone-free party…
The ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport’ name stays
A bitter geographic dispute between the East Bay and West Bay is coming to a conclusion. On Tuesday,…
How UC Berkeley students train to lead the nation’s military
Cadet Abhi Guntaka (left), Cadet Brandon Pajarin (center) and Cadet Mackenzie Grohn (right) stretch in unison as the…
Why getting more California students into UC Berkeley carries a big cost to taxpayers
People walk through Sather Gate at UC Berkeley on March 25, 2022. Credit: Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters This story…
Berkeley activists’ new book dissects 42 protests over 300 years
André Carothers and Annie Leonard. Credit: Brooke Anderson One day a few decades into the eighteenth century, a…
A lively debate over the state of free speech at UC Berkeley
Six decades after the Free Speech Movement erupted at UC Berkeley in protest of university-imposed restrictions on political…
Union calls for firing of Berkeley library head
Interim Berkeley Public Library Director Henry Bankhead speaks at a March meeting of the Board of Library Trustees.…
UC Berkeley campus sees 2 deaths in under 24 hours
Two men, one a student and one not, died on or very near UC Berkeley’s campus this week.…
Earth Day music, Asian Night Market, So Many Stars
Berkeley’s Sacred Music Fellowship, presents an interfaith holiday celebration for Earth Day on Sunday, April 26. Courtesy: Sacred…