Michelaina Johnson

After facing challenges last year to move a local homeless population, the Albany City Council has extended funding to a Berkeley non profit in an effort to help the inhabitants find permanent housing.

After decades of conflict, the development of the vacant lot on the east side of Haste St. and Telegraph Ave. has cleared another hurdle toward completion.

As school commenced for students across the Berkeley Unified School District last week, the district entered its fourth week of implementing a new policy aimed at protecting the rights of gender nonconforming students.

After several months of dispute and two strikes, BART and its two largest unions have drafted a series of tentative agreements to resolve remaining labor contract issues.

Friends and family remember Kenneth Speirs as “a gift to the students” – a professor who encouraged creativity and instilled confidence in his pupils.

To address the concerns of Berkeley residents regarding proposed changes to the 51 bus line, the AC Transit presented a revised plan during the city of Berkeley’s transportation commission meeting on Nov. 21.

Campus and community organizations gathered blankets and clothing over the last three weeks to donate to Syrian refugees displaced due to the ongoing conflict in the country.

At a UC Berkeley policy presentation event Monday evening, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom said he wished he had implemented one of the policies while mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.

In response to a shortage in bed space, the Berkeley City Council passed three resolutions Tuesday, reallocating $103,500 from a closed shelter that used to serve the city’s homeless to four other local shelters.

After a night earlier this semester when Berkeley’s emergency response system was stretched beyond its limit, the city’s fire department began developing a new system to track the number of emergency calls generated by UC Berkeley students.