San Francisco Chronicle

Tenants in the cities of Berkeley and Oakland have struggled to afford housing as a result of high-security deposits that present a high initial barrier to renting. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a Senate bill, which would have allowed several Californian cities to open safe injection and consumption sites.

As UC Berkeley returns to in-person instruction and students upload their vaccine cards to eTang, campus health administrators are unable to verify all the vaccine records, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Ellen Weis, author, Museum of Modern Mythology director and Berkeley publicist, died of brain cancer on July 27 at age 64.

During a visit to the city of Oakland on Thursday, a 54-year-old Berkeley resident allegedly assaulted California Gov. Gavin Newsom as Newsom sought to promote small businesses in light of the state's recent reopening. 

As multiple COVID-19 virus variants are being detected in the state of California, Alameda County health officials identified possible cases of a new variant of the coronavirus that was discovered in the United Kingdom.

Gerald “Jerry” Lubenow, a former director of publications for the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, died July 21 at the age of 80.

The Building Name Review Committee spent almost three years circulating surveys, inviting public comment and reading reports from an internal Berkeley Law committee.

As of early Thursday morning, the campus has removed Boalt Hall’s name and the building’s name pin lettering.

Rebecca Ora, a UC Santa Cruz graduate student, accused UC Regent George Kieffer of sexual harassment at the UC Board of Regents meeting Wednesday, more than a year after she filed a formal report.