Berkeleyside

The city of Berkeley announced Friday the water in West Berkeley’s Aquatic Park is unsafe for human contact, advising residents to avoid the water.

Two men were hit by an Amtrak train and killed on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Fourth Street and Bancroft Way on Thursday night.

Certain insurance companies notified homeowners of their coverage cancellations and cited an unwanted risk of exposure to wildfires.

UC Berkeley is planning to build a residence hall with space for 750 to 1,000 students at the western edge of campus, coined the “Gateway site.” 

On Aug. 4, residents of a low-income senior housing complex in South Berkeley were displaced after a fire began in the early afternoon.

Cyclist Sebastian Rodrigues collided with a vehicle on June 23 and died five days later, according to a Berkeleyside report.

Berkeley Rose Waldorf School has a 29 percent measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccination rate, according to the 2017-18 report on the Immunization Status of Kindergarten Students on the California Public Health website, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

The Middle Eastern restaurant Saha, located on Shattuck Avenue and Haste Street, will be closing its Berkeley location this Sunday, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

District 8 City Councilmember Lori Droste was charged with a fine of $750 as a result of campaign finance violations at a Fair Campaign Practices Commission meeting Thursday, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

With a mission to make coffee that is grown and harvested by women more accessible and more widely represented in the global economy, the cafe is dedicated to sourcing and roasting coffee from “well established” women’s coffee farm cooperatives in Central America, Africa and South America, according to the Cafenated Coffee website.