Chrissa Olson

The city of Berkeley has allocated all of its 51 emergency housing vouchers, or EHVs, which were provided to the city as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Countywide, 875 have been allocated.

Over 100 Berkeley High School, or BHS, students walked out of class on Wednesday to show their support for Palestine in the latest Israel-Hamas war and to call for an immediate ceasefire. 

Residents of the unhoused encampment on Eight and Harrison streets have filed a lawsuit against the city of Berkeley for throwing away their possessions following a sweep last year.

A temporary restraining order that prevented the city of Berkeley from sweeping a homeless encampment on Eighth and Harrison streets will be dissolved, Judge Edward Chen of the North District court decided Wednesday.

A campus sign valued at $25k was recovered from the roof of the Sigma Chi fraternity house by UCPD Sept. 12, an amount warranting a grand felony.

A woman was fatally stabbed on in Berkeley Hills Saturday afternoon, marking Berkeley's first homicide of the year.

A man in his 50s was stabbed multiple times in front of the  Chase Bank at 2390 Shattuck Ave early this morning. 

Encampment residents at Harrison and Eighth Street were granted a temporary restraining order against the city of Berkeley on Sept. 5, momentarily preventing the city from clearing the encampment. 

A Berkeley police sergeant has been sued for alleged physical assault and use of racist slurs against a Black man, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.

You don’t need anyone’s permission to express yourself in the way you want to. Here’s where you can obtain a coveted tattoo or piercing in Berkeley.