Boyce Buchanan

While the Board intends to decide upon its final budget at the next meeting on March 13, it tentatively approved changing the funding source of two Berkeley High School counselors, meaning these positioned will potentially be funded for only one additional year.

Teaching, researching and producing blueprints for tax policy that can potentially affect the entire nation — that is the daily life of two UC Berkeley professors who are currently working with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, to address the issue of wealth disparity in the United States.

Eight new electric school buses will become part of the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, bus fleet at no additional cost to the district and will potentially be put into use for the upcoming 2019-20 school year.

The Milvia Street Bicycle Boulevard experiences more cycling collisions than any other bikeway in Berkeley, according to city’s public open house presentation. The City of Berkeley has recently revealed a plan to improve safety on the street.

Assistant Superintendent Pauline Follansbee and Associate Superintendent Pasquale Scuderi joined the board to discuss the cuts and presented the superintendent’s proposed reductions.

Twenty-six delegates from the East Bay and Northern California will join the National Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, Alliance and more than 50 other groups from around the nation in Washington, D.C. in a national summit to fight for a legal solution and pathway for permanent status for TPS recipients.

A report released by researchers from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the journal Science on Jan. 31 outlined the design of a new 3D printer that allows objects to be printed more quickly than previous printers, with smoother surfaces and no sacrificial support structures.

A slow trickle of customers meandered in and out of a pale yellow storefront on Solano Avenue, looking at bags of cookies on the counter and display cases that were almost empty from a day of sales. La Bedaine is back in business.

About four of the 17 residents at a homeless encampment near the Berkeley Marina had to move after CalTrans cleared trash from the encampment Friday, along with some of the residents' personal belongings.

A statement released Dec. 20 officially canceled the 2018 Biofreeze Berkeley Half Marathon, after its original notice of cancellation on Nov. 17 due to “hazardous air quality.”