As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
California State Sen. Nancy Skinner introduced two bills regarding police reform Monday — one to expand police transparency and the other to reduce police scope.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced Monday the creation of an online portal that will allow higher education institutions to more easily report foreign gifts and contracts valued at more than $250,000.
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, several summer camps for Berkeley youth have either closed for the summer or continue to navigate possible plans of instruction.
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Opened in late spring 1985, Berkeley’s Lalime restaurant on Gilman Street bid a sentimental goodbye through a statement to its customers on its website, declaring it would have to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A national coalition of United Auto Workers, or UAW, locals is lobbying for increased federal research funding and better worker protection amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as announced in a press release Monday.
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With the increased need for disposable N95 respirators, Bay Area hospitals have been trying to conserve equipment by decontaminating respirators for reuse — upsetting nurses on the front lines.
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Eventure, an app created by a group of UC Berkeley students, will officially launch during Golden Bear Orientation this fall. Designed as a platform to give exposure to campus events, the app will facilitate student club membership management and offer an event creation pipeline.
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With schools closed due to the shelter-in-place order, the Edible Schoolyard Project, which operates out of Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, has been donating its harvests to the Berkeley Food Network.
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The California Energy Commission will vote to fund two projects investigating the usefulness of fiber optic cables as scientific sensors for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on April 8, according to an email from CEC spokesperson Michael Ward.
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The Berkeley Cost of Living Adjustment, or COLA, General Assembly passed two votes Monday regarding a potential wildcat strike in support of a COLA for all UC graduate students.
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