Chrissa Olson

The Berkeley Zoning Adjustment Board, or ZAB, approved use permits Thursday to replace the existing clubhouse and restroom at Willard Park with a new 3,301 square foot community center and bathroom.

Residents of Wood Street, the largest homeless encampment in Oakland, are being evicted. The city of Oakland has been working on clearing the site since April 10.

The AC Transit Board of Directors unanimously approved a motion to extend line 7 in order to add service to Ashby Avenue. Ashby Avenue was once covered by line 80, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and low ridership. 

Councilmember Rigel Robinson has introduced an Intersection Daylighting Plan, which would paint intersections red to restrict parking in order to open up space, increase visibility and reduce traffic injuries and deaths.

Many platforms work to feed people the content that will yield the most engagement in order to keep people scrolling. But the speed and precision at which people are targeted has amplified polarization and outrage.

Max Rodman, a freshman and political economy major, is running for ASUC Senate as a member of Elevate Cal on the platforms of academic reform, ASUC transparency and religious equity. 

Aanya Schoetz, a second-year political science major, is running with Elevate Cal on a platform of cross-cultural collaboration and higher education equity. 

Running independently for ASUC Senate, sophomore Karima Itayem's platform is one that seeks to build bridges across a variety of communities by listening and responding to both concerns and ideas.

Campus junior and transfer student Alphaeus Bey is running independently for ASUC president. Bey hopes to address safety, diversity, ASUC transparency and UC Berkeley’s campus climate.

Amid a statewide student housing crisis, California assemblymember Eduardo Garcia introduced AB 1630, which would streamline private student housing developments within 1,000 feet of California college campuses.