Ahna Straube

City Council discussed a Zoning Adjustments Board, or ZAB, appeal and alternative sources of funding for homeless service nonprofit agencies at its regular meeting Tuesday.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, sent writer Ryan Lenz to the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union on Tuesday to speak on the “alt-right” movement.

UC Berkeley students, including representatives from the ASUC and Berkeley Student Cooperative, filled the crowd at the City Council meeting Tuesday to oppose an increase in the city’s Indoor Entertainment Inspection Fee.

UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Green Economy Program found that more than half of entry-level laborers at California renewable energy power plants were people of color, according to its study released Aug 31.

The Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, and the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, or BFT, a labor union that represents more than 800 BUSD teachers and school staff, have reached a tentative agreement in 2017-18 and 2018-19 contract negotiations, according to a joint press release issued Wednesday.

The Chancellor’s Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics released a report Monday outlining recommendations that do not include cutting any sports programs.

The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board has appointed María Poblet, campus alumna and tenants advocate, to replace Commissioner Katherine Harr, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

An email sent May 4 from Chancellor Nicholas Dirks to the campus community outlined plans for the campus's new Peer Review Committee, or PRC, tasked with reviewing faculty accused of violating UC sexual misconduct policy.

David Peterson, UC Berkeley alumnus and creator of Dothraki and High Valyrian languages spoken in “Game of Thrones,” will be teaching a three-unit course this summer, called “The Linguistics of Game of Thrones and the Art of Language Invention.”

Starting May 1, Alameda County will require retail stores to charge 10 cents per shopping bag and only distribute recycled-content paper or reusable plastic bags, according to a press release issued Monday by the Alameda County Waste Management Authority.