Carina Zhao

A rally advocating for the campus to provide free menstrual products in campus bathrooms was held Wednesday afternoon on Sproul Plaza by YWCA Berkeley/Oakland.

Berkeley City Council will convene Tuesday to discuss the appointment of a new police chief, a resolution that seeks to narrow the gender pay gap and a senate bill that discourages emergency room closures, among other items.

A Senate bill that would require California public college campuses to provide medication abortion services to students was introduced Friday.

An associate of Laurie Capitelli, a landlord and former Berkeley City Council member, was charged with two felony counts — one of burglary and another of theft.

Berkeley Police Department worked in conjunction with both UCPD and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, or ABC, on Saturday to enforce the Shoulder Tap Operation, a project aimed at reducing underage access to alcohol.

The “March 4 Trump” rally that occurred in Berkeley on Saturday ended with some demonstrators concluding that the Berkeley Police Department did not take enough measures to prevent the violence that ensued.

California remains one of the most earthquake-prone regions in the United States, according to a 2017 U.S. Geological Survey forecast that shows the impact of both induced and natural earthquakes.

Facing a new national political climate, California education leaders are now urging the state’s undocumented students to apply for the California Dream Act, a financial aid program that provides scholarships for undocumented students attending state universities, which is seeing a significant decrease in application numbers.

UC President Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that she has selected Gary May, a UC Berkeley alumnus and dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering, to become the seventh chancellor of UC Davis.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks received an honorary doctorate of literature Monday from Sri Ramaswamy Memorial University in Chennai, India.