CA Gov. Newsom signs 22 bills for wildfire mitigation
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Gov. Newsom signed 22 bills for wildfire mitigation and preparedness efforts Wednesday, building on $1 billion allocated for wildfire investment.
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Berkeley’s homeless population increases by 14 percent
In this year’s homeless point-in-time count, it was reported that 1,108 persons currently experience homelessness in the city of Berkeley, an increase of 14 percent since the last count in 2017.
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Faith and food: 30th annual King Tut Festival emphasizes Egyptianness of Coptic Identity
At Saint Antonius Coptic Orthodox Church’s King Tut Festival in Hayward, Egyptian food and music are essential in sharing culture and forming community.
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Alameda and Contra Costa counties introduce new telephone area code: 341
The 510 area code is expected to run out of prefixes, or the first three numbers after the area code, by “the second quarter of 2019.”
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SWAT teams serve arrest, search warrants in 6 East Bay locations
Six police departments sent SWAT teams to serve warrants for people responsible for a series of cell phone store robberies in the East Bay.
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Gov. Jerry Brown pardons Bay Area recycling program director facing deportation
Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday that he had granted a pardon to Daniel Maher, the recycling program director at Berkeley’s Ecology Center, along with 55 other people.
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Amid wildfire risk in Bay Area, UC Berkeley’s emergency management office to lose half of staff
The UC Berkeley Office of Emergency Management is set to lose 50 percent of its staff because of cuts.
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Trailing blazes back: Revisiting the 1923 Berkeley Fire
In Berkeley, there has come to be a sort of timelessness to a smoke-shrouded sky. Though California weather regularly lends a great number of fires to the golden hills during its drier seasons, large-scale infernos are far and between. When they do happen, they are remembered.
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Alameda County approves $1.5 million allocation for immigrants, refugees
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.5 million allocation in support of immigrants and refugees Tuesday.
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City of Berkeley reaches conditional settlement in lawsuit regarding police use of force
A tentative settlement has been reached between the city of Berkeley and journalists and demonstrators in a civil lawsuit regarding the Berkeley Police Department’s alleged use of force at a 2014 demonstration.
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