Dina Katgara

Three of Berkeley’s four mayoral candidates gathered for a Thursday night Q&A forum hosted by several community groups and answered questions regarding housing, transportation and climate needs.

A report published by education technology company Rootstrap found that online learning companies’ revenue from universities increased by 559% on average from March through July this year compared to the same time frame in 2019.

AC Transit held a virtual joint Board of Directors and Accessibility Advisory Committee, or AAC, meeting Wednesday to discuss its financial plans, the status of fare collection and the recent changes in emergency service levels during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Caring father, friend, colleague, engineer and UC Berkeley professor emeritus Richard “Dick” White died Aug. 14 at the age of 90 in his home on Panoramic Hill. He will be remembered for his drive to help others through invention, his care for the world around him and his ingenuity.

The Network in Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics and Symmetries, or N3AS, an international research collaboration directed by UC Berkeley physics professor Wick Haxton, was awarded $10.9 million over five years by the National Science Foundation, or NSF.

Businesses around the country will forever have the economic scar from the effects of COVID-19 in their histories, and it will affect their futures.

Before March, local restaurant and sandwich shop Cheese n’ Stuff was a “zoo” making upward of 500 sandwiches daily for its loyal customers. Now, the once lively shop is barely making 50 sandwiches a day and is missing its usual rush of hungry students.

Viks Chaat and Market, once a bustling market and restaurant filled with families and friends revisiting memories through spicy dosas and children experiencing the tantalizing taste of their parents’ pasts, now faces an uncertain future due to the effects of COVID-19.

The return of research at UC Berkeley is underway, with 30 research buildings planned to open by the end of June, campus administration said.

Debate over whether Uber and Lyft drivers can be considered as independent contractors rather than employees led the California Public Utilities Commission to presume these app drivers are employees and to enforce them as such.