Albany City Council

In light of the Ben Shapiro event Sept. 14 and Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Free Speech Week,” from Sept. 24-27, there has been discussion about what Berkeley Police Department can use at protests. Here is a list of the equipment police officers are able to use in crowd control situations.

Two Occupy the Farm protesters were arrested and one cited and released Monday morning for trespassing on a plot of land on the Gill Tract, which is a university-owned site in Albany, California.

The city of Berkeley moved to terminate a public nuisance notice that would have removed the possessions of a group living under the Gilman Street overpass, many of whom had to leave a homeless encampment in the adjacent town of Albany.

Following a Wednesday settlement, dozens of residents of Albany Bulb — a former landfill that has become a home to many of Albany’s homeless — are preparing to pack up their belongings and find a new place to reside.

Rippling in Wednesday’s wind, a bright yellow banner beside California Hall hangs from a tree reading, in bright green capital letters, “Farms are for Farming.”

After facing challenges last year to move a local homeless population, the Albany City Council has extended funding to a Berkeley non profit in an effort to help the inhabitants find permanent housing.

The Albany Bulb, a piece of land jutting into the bay north of the Berkeley Marina, has been many things: landfill, park, art installation and, dating back to the 1990s, a home to those without one.

A recent Albany City Council vote has removed a hurdle in the University of California’s plans for the development of a grocery store, senior housing complex and mixed-retail center on UC-owned land in Albany.

Occupy the Farm protesters held a community meeting Wednesday at UC Berkeley to outline a vision for the future of the Gill Tract.