Kathleen Tierney

Proponents of an initiative aiming to help promote use of buildings in Berkeley downtown for public benefit announced Tuesday that they’d gathered enough signatures to put the plan on the November ballot.

A team of scientists released new data Wednesday indicating that evidence of radiation from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has not yet reached the U.S. West Coast shoreline.

After failing to select an attorney general at the last ASUC Senate meeting of the semester on Wednesday, the senate will extend current Attorney General Kevin Sabo’s term until they can decide on his successor.

In his state of the city address Wednesday, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates officially announced a new college pathway program for the city’s disadvantaged youth, and also outlined several economic and environmental initiatives to better the city.

Qusai Zakarya was more than familiar with the sounds of the bombs that rained on his Syrian hometown. But the sounds he heard during his morning prayerlast August preluded a different type of attack.

UC Berkeley’s new Emergency Operations Center, located in Warren Hall, was officially opened on Friday, as part of a five year plan to improve campus emergency response procedures.

Following a Wednesday settlement, dozens of residents of Albany Bulb — a former landfill that has become a home to many of Albany’s homeless — are preparing to pack up their belongings and find a new place to reside.

A week after finals, Spencer Pace will embark on a 500 mile charity bike ride to Los Angeles with his fraternity brothers in Sigma Phi Epsilon to raise funds for research into the disease – a trip that at one point in his life would have been impossible.

George Staubus, an emeritus professor at the Haas School of Business who transformed the field of accounting, died on March 21 in Oakland from bone marrow failure. He was 87.

The high demand for parking spaces in Berkeley has prompted city officials to consider extending parking meter hours in order to increase space availability during the evening, a change that could go into effect later this year.