Alameda

Elisa Mikiten, affordable housing planner and partner at Mikiten Architecture, is running for the District 1 City Council seat against incumbent Rashi Kesarwani and newcomer Tamar Michai Freeman.

Located under the Enclave housing complex on Telegraph Avenue, GamedayVR, a virtual reality game store, aims to open its doors at the start of the fall semester. 

On Saturday, Aminé delivered a charming, gushy set, Vampire Weekend became the crowd favorite and Lizzo brought some of the festival’s best surprises.

At Berkeley Food Network’s onsite pantry, clients visited 1,600 times a week in February 2020. This number increased to 5,000 in April of the same year, and has since remained constant, according to Berkeley Food Network, or BFN, office manager Erika Larson.

At Lopez Reservoir in San Luis Obispo County, California Gov. Gavin Newsom added nine counties to the drought state of emergency Thursday and urged Californians to voluntarily reduce their water use by 15%.

As the East Bay enters a Stage 1 drought, California Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded an April 21 drought emergency proclamation to include a total of 41 counties, including Alameda, on Monday.

The city of Berkeley, Alameda County and seven other Bay Area counties issued a joint statement April 25, lifting the pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine that was issued earlier that month.

The city of Berkeley and six Bay Area counties announced Monday that they will be extending shelter-in-place orders through May 31 while also loosening several restrictions from previous orders.

In an attempt to combat the spread of COVID-19, seven jurisdictions within the Bay Area announced an order with revamped reporting requirements for laboratories that test for COVID-19.

AB 1487, which overwhelmingly passed in both houses of the state Legislature and is now on the Governor’s desk, is a critical piece of legislation that will begin to tackle the affordable housing crisis.