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UC Berkeley student Eric Cao already had a lot on his plate during the week leading up to finals. But when Cao discovered an insect at the bottom of his salad bowl at a campus dining hall, questions about campus dining halls’ food safety were tossed on as well.
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A central topic in the debate over housing development in the city of Berkeley, the North Berkeley BART station is now on track to receive plans for multifamily housing that will replace the station’s 8-acre parking lot.
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The city of Berkeley agreed to enter into a franchise agreement with FlixBus, a long-distance bus company started in Germany, to allow buses to stop at the campus’s western edge at Tuesday’s regular City Council meeting. Previously, the closest stops were located in West Oakland and Richmond.
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Berkeley announced it is considering taking the UC Board of Regents to court, in response to a move from UC Berkeley to increase its student population.
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Berkeley may soon follow in the footsteps of cities such as Seattle, Chicago and Portland, Oregon in addressing the ongoing housing shortage by implementing wide-scale changes to residential areas.
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When Sean Spicer walked up to the lectern in front of a crowded Evans Hall lecture room, he was met with a round of applause that took him aback: “that was not the introduction I was expecting but I appreciate it.”
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Staff members of UCLA’s student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, are going on strike after their vote to elect the paper’s next editor in chief was overruled by a governing board Monday.
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Masao Yabusaki’s family nursery sold bonsai trees and garden plants in the city of Berkeley since his grandparents immigrated to the US, and while business had to shut down in 2014, Yabusaki will now likely get the chance to reopen it with a license to sell cannabis plants, the City Council decided Tuesday.
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The city of Berkeley is exploring the prospect of creating an opportunity fund — an investment vehicle created under President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax bill — to direct investment into poor areas by outlining “opportunity zones” where real estate investments may significantly reduce federal taxes.
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The Berkeley City Council narrowly voted to send a development proposal for a five-story development back to the Zoning Adjustments Board, or ZAB, at Tuesday regular meeting, holding off from approving the project until some design tweaks are implemented.
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