UC Berkeley Denounces Protest At Jewish Student Event UC Berkeley condemns protest disrupting Jewish student event, launches criminal investigation into safety concerns. Top News · Feb 29, 2024
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 · Jan 4, 2024
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 · Dec 19, 2023
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 · Dec 16, 2023
Berkeley boss calls for 'brownfield first' planning reform to boost London house building Rob Perrins Evening Standard · Dec 8, 2023
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 · Sep 8, 2023
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… Los Angeles Times · Jul 20, 2023
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 · Jun 26, 2023
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 · May 25, 2023
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 · Apr 21, 2023
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 · Apr 18, 2023
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 · Apr 18, 2023
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 · Apr 18, 2023
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… The Conversation · Apr 12, 2023
Tribune News Service · Apr 8, 2023 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 · Mar 27, 2023 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 · Mar 10, 2023 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 · Feb 27, 2023 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
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 23, 2023 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 · Feb 22, 2023 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 · Feb 18, 2023 '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 · Jan 25, 2023 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 · Jan 23, 2023 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 · Jan 18, 2023 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 · Jan 17, 2023 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.