Brandon Yung

KC’s BBQ is fighting a notice of violation from the City of Berkeley to cease and desist from using their outdoor smoker, an order that was issued after the City conducted several inspections in response to complaints from neighbors about the smoke.

DJ Steve Aoki is expanding his enterprise beyond the turntable and into the restaurant industry. Aoki’s recent addition to his pizza restaurant chain, Pizzaoki, opened in January in Oakland and is available only through food delivery services such as Grubhub and DoorDash.

Wooden boards and caution tape cover the doors of a shuttered apartment at the UC Berkeley University Village, where a taped notice announces the reason for the quarantine: “METHAMPHETAMINE CLEANUP ORDER.”

The UC requires applicants to have completed a number of high school courses in order to apply to the nine campuses. CS classes were previously considered merely supplemental, but will soon fulfill the third year science recommendation under the UC’s A-G requirement — used to determine application eligibility with high school classes.

An 18-story, mixed-use building with 274 residential units is set to replace the Walgreens building in Downtown Berkeley after the City Council approved the project in a Zoning Adjustments Board, or ZAB, appeal hearing at Thursday’s special meeting.

A controversial proposal for a residential development in northwest Berkeley will be sent back to the city Zoning Adjustments Board for consideration after Berkeley City Council members sided with a community appeal against the project at Tuesday evening’s regular meeting.

Two initiatives will be up for a vote at the next Berkeley City Council meeting Tuesday — one that seeks to provide protections for immigrants and another that denounces white supremacy.

When housing staff changed the locks to the study rooms in the UC Berkeley University Village, many residents juggling school and parenthood found themselves unsupported by the graduate family housing complex intended to be resource and support system.

Members of the public stood up and applauded after Berkeley City Council members voted unanimously to pass what Mayor Jesse Arreguín described on Twitter as “the most ambitious, groundbreaking policy” in the country to reduce the usage of disposable, noncompostable foodware items such as plates and utensils.