Ishaan Srivastava

Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced sweeping changes to two major cost-cutting efforts at an Academic Senate meeting Tuesday.

More than 1,000 members of the Berkeley community — including seniors and families with children and pets — visited the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on Saturday to learn more about how they could be best prepared in the event of a citywide emergency.

In a meeting Tuesday, Berkeley City Council voted to draft a ballot resolution that would raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 by 2019.

Enforcement staff at the Contractors State License Board, or CSLB, have determined that five contractors involved in the construction of a balcony that collapsed last June probably violated California law, potentially leading to the suspension or revocation of the contractors’ licenses.

Three women filed a lawsuit last month in connection with the collapse of a balcony last June that killed six and injured seven others.

Two campus sophomores, John Bosshard and Alaa Aissi, recently announced their intent to run as independent ASUC Senate candidates in the spring 2016 elections.

Moni Law considers herself an anomaly — and she has the data to prove it.

More than 250 members of the Berkeley community attended a city event celebrating Black History Month, which featured presentations on violence in the black community and the Black Lives Matter movement, and a screening of a documentary.

At a special meeting Thursday, the Graduate Assembly passed a bill calling for provisions that guarantee coverage of dependents and inclusion of full transgender benefits in next year’s Student Health Insurance Plan.