At Tuesday’s Berkeley city council meeting, the community will introduce five proposals regarding a particular area of concern: the use of dental amalgam, which contains mercury, in dental fillings. Read More…
The Pac-12 Networks, which televise hundreds of athletic events for Pac-12 schools each year, have run into opposition from unions of technicians who claim that the wages and benefits the networks offer fall below industry-standard rates. Read More…
The Berkeley City Council will discuss increasing the limit on medical cannabis dispensaries from four to six at Tuesday’s meeting. Read More…
California’s minimum wage is set to soon become the highest of any state in the nation, following the approval of a bill that would raise the state minimum wage by two dollars by 2016. Read More…
Berkeley City Council agreed on Tuesday night to further assess a proposal for a new homeless housing project that has been both hailed as visionary and denounced as dangerous. Read More…
The Berkeley City Council has entered the debate over whether to label genetically-modified produce, voting Tuesday night to investigate the possibility of instituting such a policy at the city level. Read More…
After more than a year of discussions, protests and petitions, Berkeley community members are looking at a newly proposed zoning ordinance that may finally decide the fate of the Downtown Berkeley post office. Read More…
After extensive discussion Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council decided to postpone a historic vote on the ASUC-backed redistricting map that would create a student-majority district for the first time in Berkeley. Read More…
The Berkeley-based company SpoonRocket, which has been in business since June 26, was founded by UC Berkeley graduates Steven Hsiao and Anson Tsui. The two hired chef David Cramer, who whips up two choices every day — one meat option and one vegetarian or vegan option. Read More…
A University of San Francisco professor died in a two-alarm apartment fire in South Berkeley early Tuesday morning, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Read More…