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After garnering more than 100,000 signatures within the last month, the initiative to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act — a 1995 state law that limits the scope of local rent control ordinances — is likely to appear on November’s ballot.
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The California State Assembly passed a resolution Friday urging a congressional censure of President Donald Trump for his statements about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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State Legislatures passed a package of bills late Thursday night to address the statewide housing crisis, two of which likely will directly affect Berkeley, recently rated the most expensive college town in the country.
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The California State Assembly’s approval of Senate Bill 687 on Friday may prevent the closure of Berkeley’s only emergency room.
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California could become the first state to support the U.S. Congress’s efforts to censure President Donald Trump, after Assemblymember Tony Thurmond introduced a resolution in the State Assembly.
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The UC Board of Regents announced the election of Regent George Kieffer as board chair for the 2017-18 year, according to a press release issued by the University of California Office of the President on Wednesday.
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Buffy Wicks, a former White House official and adviser to former president Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, announced last week her intent to run for the California 15th State Assembly District seat in 2018.
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A bill extending alcohol service to 4 a.m. passed in the California State Senate on May 31 and would grant municipalities the decision-making power to push back the current 2 a.m. last call.
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In stark contrast to Republicans’ sweep of the presidency and Congress on Nov. 8, California Democrats clinched two-thirds supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature Monday night.
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Sixteen- and 17-year-olds may soon be allowed to vote in Berkeley, making the city one of just a few in the country to allow them to do so.
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