Walnut Street

Demolition is currently underway for the University Garage, a landmarked garage and gas station, in order to accommodate more housing for UC Berkeley students.

We call on Chancellor Christ to respect opposition to the proposed plans, return to the drawing board and find alternative solutions to the student housing problem that are broadly acceptable to our entire community.

About 25 individuals gathered, held signs and spoke outside 1921 Walnut St. on Monday as part of a protest in opposition to UC Berkeley's plan to buy the rent-controlled apartment building.

Chants of "Black lives matter," booming music and the names of people who have died at the hands of police — all of these could be heard in the Berkeley streets this weekend as thousands of protesters reacted to the death of George Floyd.

UC Berkeley is in the process of buying a property on Walnut Street as part of its plan to create more housing for students, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

Berkeley Police Department detained a man causing a disturbance inside of two businesses at the intersection of Walnut Street and Vine Street about 9:40 a.m. Feb. 24.

The Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, Monday arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of several instances of sexual battery, according to a community-wide Nixle alert.

As construction of the Hearst Complete Streets Project continues, AC Transit bus lines 52, 65 and F will not serve their regular stops on Hearst Avenue at Arch Street and Euclid Avenue.

A North Berkeley resident discovered almost 100 voter guides in a Berkeley recycling bin last week that were still bound together and allegedly never delivered, prompting a federal investigation into the incident, Berkeleyside reported Tuesday.

While working on their garden on a warm Saturday afternoon, Edwin Moran and his friends unearthed a white square of plastic – a UC Berkeley student ID belonging to a graduate student by the name of Sarita Ann Yardi.