Berkeley private school with a colorful and groundbreaking past turns 80
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New smoothie spot opens on Park Boulevard in Oakland
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Loss, stress for dozens of West Berkeley residents displaced by fire
Crashing on couches, borrowing clothes, begging for prescription refills and facing confusing piles of post-disaster paperwork. Then there…
Berkeley school district approves contract with classified workers
Members of Berkeley’s classified workers union (in red) rallied in solidarity with teachers during a school board meeting…
Berkeley Hills fire last month started in a wood pile outside a home
A two-alarm fire burned residential buildings on Olympus Avenue and Fairlawn Drive on March 19, 2026. There were…
New Pilates studio in West Berkeley; Cotopaxi closes on Fourth Street after robbery
Find out which stores have opened, closed or moved and what’s new in Berkeley’s nonprofit, retail and small-business…
Mortifying stories, Homerathon, print festival
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Berkeley can clear homeless encampment at 8th & Harrison, judge rules
City workers remove peoples’ tents, tarps, belongings and trash during a partial clearing of the homeless encampment at…
Berkeleyside to host panel talk on free speech at UC Berkeley
Student protesters walk through Sather Gate after a pro-Palestinian rally on Sproul Plaza last month. Credit: Ximena Natera…
Cambodian community bursts with color, dance and Khmer tradition
Around 1,500 Cambodian Americans, family, and friends braced the unusually hot April weather to attend the 14th Khmer…
UC Berkeley offers freshmen 2-year housing guarantee with new dorms
People walk by the construction site of Heumann House on Dec. 11, 2025. Housing on the former site…
Berkeley’s top lawyer stops police from loosening use-of-force rules
The Police Accountability Board meeting on Feb. 11. The board said BPD had improperly updated its use-of-force policy…