Downtown Berkeley

Residents can now submit lottery applications for six units of affordable housing in a new apartment complex in Downtown Berkeley, according to an Oct. 21 press release by the city of Berkeley.

Jeff Wampler has been planning to open his own restaurant since he was 25 years old. On Wednesday, he did exactly that in Berkeley, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

Recent UC Berkeley alumna Angela Zhao is filing a lawsuit against Alliance Residential, the national parent company of the local Allston and Stadium Place apartments, for property loss.

Protesters demonstrated outside of Berkeley Police Department headquarters in support of Black Lives Matter on Monday, after which vandalism was reported.

The Berkeley Way Project, the largest affordable and homeless housing development project in the city of Berkeley’s history, broke ground ceremoniously Tuesday morning.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been pretty good at directions. It’s always been a point of pride for me. But when I got to Berkeley, I went from “I could get home with my eyes closed” to “I have no idea where I am.”

Berkeley City Council narrowed down 913 submissions from the public to rename the reconfigured two-block stretch of Shattuck Avenue “East” and is asking community members to vote on the final submissions.

It’s rare that streets are renamed, so we ought to be responsible and make the name of the two-block stretch of Shattuck Avenue worthwhile.

The Mechanics Bank and the Wells Fargo Bank on Shattuck Avenue were robbed Tuesday afternoon. 

A person was robbed at gunpoint at about 5 a.m. Saturday in front of Tasty Pot on Kittredge Street.