Photos: See inside the rebuilt Berkeley Tuolumne Camp
The new camp, which welcomes families back this summer, was built to be more accessible and better protected from wildfire.
The new camp, which welcomes families back this summer, was built to be more accessible and better protected from wildfire.
How would we cope if we could no longer walk or lost the capacity to reason? The play explores how one exists when the inner life remains as the outer life fails.
After being closed for more than two years due to the pandemic, the nonprofit venue is reopening June 5 with an all-day free event.
Rising infrastructure and pension liabilities could threaten the city’s fiscal health, a recent audit found.
Thursday’s vote was a budget referral: The package will come back in June so officials can decide what will actually be funded in the coming years.
“When we work together as a whole community we can make real progress,” Mayor Jesse Arreguín said Thursday.
Security work for outside entities, such as UC Berkeley, the Apple store and other Fourth Street businesses, made up 10% of the overtime costs in FY20.
Health experts say positive cases are underreported, but high vaccination rates have meant fewer hospitalizations and deaths.
Berkeley’s case rate is higher than it’s been at any point in the pandemic other than the omicron surge. Hospitalizations remain low.
As self-testing becomes more common, the Berkeley health officer said the data is a useful tool in monitoring COVID-19 in the general population.
The requirement that restaurants and other businesses check vaccination status ends Friday.
After suffering serious falls, Betty Gray hasn’t been able to leave her second-floor apartment to run Alice’s Relaxing Bath and Gift Shop.
A proposal to build “approximately 15 stories” of new housing behind the theater’s facade cleared an early hurdle this month.
Owsley Stanley, famed Grateful Dead soundman and the first person to privately manufacture LSD, lived in the Poet’s Corner cottage during the Summer of Love.
There are about 50 fewer homeless people in the city than in 2019, even as Alameda County’s homeless population rose 22%.
Tenants began moving into the 34-unit affordable senior housing project in March after being chosen among 1,000 applicants.
The main causes of death were overdoses and medical conditions, many “preventable,” according to a county report.
Six of the remaining people at the Ashby-Shellmound encampment have disabilities that make it difficult to find housing.
The parcels are part of the ongoing Adeline Corridor Plan near Ashby BART.
Find out how many scooters and bikes are coming to Berkeley, and how you can report illegally parked vehicles.
Some of the area’s residents and merchants vehemently opposed plans for new bike lanes that will require the removal of parking spaces.
The street has grown increasingly clogged with motorists double-parking on both sides of the one-way street just east of Telegraph Avenue.
The City Council is set to vote on the controversial zoning change, which one commissioner called a “fireball,” later this spring.
“I feel like I’ve served with the seriousness and integrity that the voters deserve,” Droste told Berkeleyside in an exclusive interview. “My family needs me now.”
For much of Cal’s history, providing housing for students was not a priority. Troubled finances in the last few decades have hobbled Cal’s efforts to catch up.
Leonard Powell hopes the court will find that Berkeley and a receiver mismanaged his home code problems.
As Berkeley Tuolumne Camp reopens, the city’s cherished rustic retreats are facing growing threats from wildfires and landslides.
Downtown Berkeley, which once boasted a half-dozen movie theaters, will soon be down to one.
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