Nico Correia

The Berkeley City Council will conduct a preliminary review on an ordinance which would impose restrictions on the use of electronic smoking devices – including e-cigarettes and vaporizers – in places where smoking is currently prohibited.

A city labor commission is urging Berkeley City Council to adopt a resolution aimed at halting what it calls “attacks” on a local nurse workforce and improving staff levels at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center.

In the wake of the recent 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Napa Valley, UC Berkeley began hosting the third International Conference on Earthquake Early Warning on Wednesday to evaluate ways of implementing a public earthquake early-alerting system in California.

An Alameda Superior County Court judge issued two rulings regarding contested ballot language for November ballot measures on Tuesday.

Robert Hass, a distinguished campus professor in poetry and poetics and former U.S. poet laureate, won the prestigious Wallace Stevens Award for poetry this year.

UC Berkeley closed public access to the site popularly known as University Falls on August 14 in response to growing concern over visitors’ negative treatment of the land.

Berkeley Councilmember Jesse Arreguin filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking the Alameda County Superior Court to amend ballot language for an initiative that he spearheaded, alleging that the current language contains inaccuracies and bias.

The city has now replaced around 30 percent of its old street lights with more cost and energy effective LED lights, as part of an ongoing initiative.

Saturday’s Real Madrid vs. Inter Milan soccer match at Memorial Stadium unfolded before a sold out crowd of 62,583, scoring money for various divisions across campus.

On Friday morning, the city of Berkeley cleared a homeless encampment of about 10 people at the Gilman Street overpass.