Annika Rao

Grocery store workers in Berkeley will now receive an additional $5 of hazard pay per hour after Berkeley City Council unanimously voted to pass an ordinance regarding the pay Tuesday.

On Thursday, Berkeley City Council heard a proposal to permit the construction of duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes in areas currently zoned exclusively for single-family homes in an effort to address the city’s “missing middle housing.”

As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its one-year mark, the coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom has been rapidly spreading throughout the U.S., a recent study found.

A team including UC Berkeley researchers has found more than 1,200 potential gravitational lenses, celestial objects that have proven to be a powerful addition to astronomers’ toolkits and could help demystify the dark matter that most of the universe is composed of.

Blaze Pizza, a popular fast-casual pizza franchise with more than 300 locations in California and abroad, is set to open a branch on the corner of Bancroft Way and Dana Street.

On its final day of virtual meetings this week, the UC Board of Regents discussed university donations, alternatives to college entrance exams and the state of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The nation’s low minimum wage could be costing the federal government more than $100 billion a year, a UC Berkeley Labor Center study published Thursday finds.

Bernadine “Pinky” Sewell, founder of popular campus restaurant Pinky & Red’s, was diagnosed with colon cancer in August and has set up a GoFundMe page to cover her medical and living expenses.

As some of the Library of Congress’ catalog headings have remained stagnant in the face of language change, the UC Berkeley Library is working to decrease the use of “illegal aliens” — a term that many find dehumanizing — to denote the undocumented population.

UC Berkeley researcher Cara Brook, a specialist in bat-borne viruses, was awarded a $60,000 L’Oréal For Women in Science fellowship.