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Wildfire smoke turns Berkeley air unhealthy and obscures the hills
Smoke from wildfires in Oregon and far North California brought the smell of smoke to Berkeley Tuesday, with AQI readings in many places topping 150, a level unhealthy for the general public.
Watch a documentary about San Quentin’s marathon runners this weekend in Berkeley
The new film ‘26.2 to Life,’ shot almost entirely within the walls of the Marin County prison, opens Friday at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood.
New Berkeley High girls flag football team debuts with blow-out victory
The new team is breaking gender barriers in California’s fastest growing sport. The Yellow Jackets won their first game 19-0.
100 years after Berkeley’s 1923 fire, another tragedy could be even likelier
Fire detection is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was. Some of the strategies of the last century, like fuel breaks, remain the same, however. But safety advocates warn the risk may be even higher.
Berkeley’s fire of 1923 gave way to a commercial free-for-all
The East Bay had already lost businesses to poor water systems by 1923. When the fire struck, residents turned on their hoses to find no water coming out. Afterward some businesses offered relief as others sought to cash in.
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More from the archives
Local rock band to play new music about life of sci-fi legend Octavia Butler at the Ivy Room this weekend
East Bay rock band Skip the Needle’s new EP explores Butler’s experience growing up in Pasadena before she became the author of the dystopian masterpiece ‘Parable of the Sower’ and other science fiction classics.
Around Berkeley: Egret art, mac n’ cheese, marking the 1923 fire
Other events include an adults-only comedy show at Live Oak Theater and an Indigenous-led art-making workshop at BAMPFA
Federal government tackled post-war housing crisis by creating Codornices Village on Berkeley-Albany border
Thousands lived in the affordable development, for a time one of the most racially integrated in the Bay Area.
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