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UC Berkeley Denounces Protest At Jewish Student Event

UC Berkeley condemns protest disrupting Jewish student event, launches criminal investigation into safety concerns.

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Police clear Berkeley’s historic People’s Park in surprise midnight operation

In latest move by University of California, Berkeley, law enforcement agencies arrested protesters and erected barrier

The Guardian - US

How we met after 60: ‘He is the first person in my life who has really taken care of me’

Sterling, 83, and Berkeley, 76, met at a support group for gay men in 2012. After realising they had a lot in common they fell ‘head over heels’ and now live together in Talent, Oregon

The Guardian - UK

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The Californication of the country’s housing market

Record homelessness, sky-high rents, and homes affordable only to millionaires: A case study in how local control and a shifting national economy created today’s perverse housing market.

Fortune

Berkeley boss calls for 'brownfield first' planning reform to boost London house building

Rob Perrins

Evening Standard

California governor signs bill to clear hurdles for student housing at Berkeley’s People’s Park

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill aimed at clearing the way for construction of a controversial student housing project in a historic Berkeley park

The Independent UK

The 'Un-Becoming': A former gang member finds his resurrection tale at UC Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. — Jessi Fernandez joined a street gang at 13. By his 20s, he had been shot at more times than he could count. He got busted for methamphetamine possession and spent time in Los Angeles County jail for carrying a loaded gun. Yet the persistent danger didn't wash…

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Berkeley man accused of flashing laser pointer at airplanes at O’Hare and Midway

An Illinois State Police air patrol traced a laser pointer flash to a home in Berkeley. Saul Martinez Castanon, 36, was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct. Airline pilots had reported encountering lasers in the area.

Chicago Sun-Times

Boeing to build new 'Phantom Works' facility in St. Louis for future military aircraft

BERKELEY, Missouri — Boeing is building a secure, 47,500-square-foot "Phantom Works" facility here that will focus on future military aircraft, the company announced today.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ready to switch from gas to electric appliances? Here’s how

By rejecting Berkeley, California’s ban on natural gas lines in new buildings, a federal appeals court has thrown into doubt dozens of similar prohibitions. But what does it mean for you?

Los Angeles Times

Court tosses Berkeley gas ban, but wider impact is unclear

It's unclear what kind of impact a federal appellate court's ruling to overturn a first-in-the-nation natural gas ban from 2019 in Berkeley, California will have

The Independent UK

Ninth Circuit Rules Berkeley Gas Hookup Ban Is Preempted

A local California ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups in new construction conflicts with federal law according to a federal appellate court.

Reason

Court throws out Berkeley, California's ban on natural gas

A federal appeals court has overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance

The Independent UK

Creating and implanting synthetic monkey embryos could pave the way to stem-cell babies

In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first genome-edited babies. This was at a meeting in Berkeley, Calif., hosted by Jennifer Doudna who, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work…

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Tribune News Service

Arrests made after 6 wounded in ‘senior skip day’ shooting on South Carolina beach

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As many as six people were wounded in a shooting Friday along the Isle of Palms beach as hundreds of high school students from Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties were enjoying a traditional spring day of cutting class.

Tribune News Service

From protests to punk to pandemic: KALX celebrates 60 years of student-run radio at UC Berkeley

BERKELEY, Calif. — News reports on anti-war protests of the late 1960s. Play-by-play for Oakland A’s games in the ’70s. A 1985 interview with infamous cult killer Charles Manson. An early live-in-studio performance by a teenaged Green Day. Public-safety announcements through the COVID pandemic.

Reason

Is This the Year California's Development-Killing Environmental Review Law Sees Serious Reform?

Yet another court decision stopping a U.C. Berkeley housing project is getting California's policy makers to think bigger about reforming the infamous California Environmental Quality Act.

The Independent UK

California governor vows to change law blocking new housing

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to reform a landmark state environmental law after it was used to block needed student housing at the University of California, Berkeley

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Boeing: Navy F/A-18 new fighter jet production ending in 2025

BERKELEY, Missouri — Boeing announced plans on Thursday to sunset production of the F/A-18 Super Hornet, a trademark of its St. Louis defense business.

Tribune News Service

Hundreds more tech, life science layoffs jolt East Bay, San Francisco

BERKELEY, Calif. — Hundreds more layoffs affecting tech and life science jobs in the Bay Area have been disclosed by companies in what has morphed into a steady drumbeat of local staffing reductions in the wobbly sectors.

Los Angeles Times

'The next thing I knew, I was on the ground': Bay Area bike riders tell of attacks

On the evening of Feb. 10, Eleanor Mead was riding her bike in Oakland on the way to the East Bay Bike Party, a meet-up of dozens of bicyclists who then pedal through the San Francisco Bay Area streets.

Tribune News Service

Lessons learned from a heat pump water heater home installation

A few weeks ago, I had just finished writing my last story of 2022 — about how aging gas water heaters are prone to sudden failure, so don’t wait to upgrade to an electric heat pump model — when I heard the sound of a waterfall cascading through my Berkeley,…

Tribune News Service

Upzone, demolish, construct: How Berkeley plans to build 8,934 homes by 2031

BERKELEY, California — Some of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods, bustling street corridors and empty single-family homes are being eyed to try and develop nearly 9,000 new homes over the next eight years, after the Berkeley City Council unanimously gave a 656-page plan the green light Wednesday.

Al Jazeera

California residents struggle to recover after weeks of storms

Residents grapple with the effects of three straight weeks of severe weather as mudslides and rescue efforts continue.

Tribune News Service

Overnight downpours cause damage throughout Bay Area, but forecasts clear for remainder of the week

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One of the wettest periods in the Bay Area’s recorded history began winding to a close this week with a lashing of rain that caused hillsides to buckle in the Berkeley and Oakland hills and several highways to close across Northern California.

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