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Berkeley City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to hold a special City Council meeting on Ohlone tribal history and culture, as well as to further discuss the placement of signs acknowledging the land of the Ohlone peoples.
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Jigsaw — a unit within Google that foresees and works with emerging cyber threats — launched the platform Assembler, which can detect the manipulation of images, according to a blog post on Medium.
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UC Berkeley’s Basic Needs Center announced Thursday that international students will now be eligible for campus emergency rental assistance and the campus Food Assistance Program.
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State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, announced SB 889 on Tuesday, which would increase the age for young individuals in California to be automatically tried as adults from 18 to 20 years old.
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The city of Berkeley released a new project bid opportunity Friday for contractors to cooperate in the reconstruction of the Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp — part of which was destroyed by the Rim Fire on Aug. 25, 2013.
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About 80 protesters gathered at a UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday to demand that the UC system divests from the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, project on Mauna Kea — a mountain that is sacred to Native Hawaiians.
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The city of Berkeley announced an affordable housing plan for first-time and low-income homebuyers in order to help alleviate Berkeley’s housing crisis.
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UC Berkeley’s debate team placed second and third at its most recent tournament — the Franklin R. Shirley Classic at Wake Forest University — last month and foresees being ranked the top college debate team in the nation.
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The city of Berkeley’s Peace and Justice Commission submitted a resolution to Mayor Jesse Arreguín and City Council members Tuesday that supports nonviolent activists and protects animals in commercial operations.
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UC Berkeley alumna and former ASUC senator Juniperangelica Cordova expressed her disappointment on Twitter upon realizing her diploma she worked hard to acquire contained her pre-transition name, or deadname, rather than the name she created for herself “with love.”
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