In the early hours of June 18, Michael Hastings was found dead in the flaming wreckage of his car. The 33-year-old journalist was, perhaps, best known for the 2010 Rolling Stone cover story that ended ...

In the past thirty years, three Berkeley-born businesses revolutionized their industries and made their names famous around the world: Chez Panisse, Peet’s Coffee and The Body Shop. You may be ...

While Trump got trounced, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris did not do as well in Berkeley as previous Democratic presidential candidates. Berkeley is not number one in percentage of votes for Harris ...

The Berkeley Neighborhoods Council (BNC) is writing this letter because of deep concerns expressed by many Berkeley neighborhoods over the increasing threat to the well-being of residents and the ...

Some parallels can be drawn between forcing women to carry pregnancies against their will, and forcing people deemed mentally ill to receive medication and other treatment against their will. There ...

The tracks are long gone (replaced by a tidy bicycling and walking path that crosses the city while the Berkeley School has since taken up residence on the site of the old station building) but what ...

The Berkeley City Council has scheduled a Public Hearing for Tuesday July 23 at 3.30 to adopt a “Middle Housing” ordinance that would upzone most of the Berkeley’s residential neighborhoods. According ...

Only a few weeks are left to see Berkeley’s beloved burrowing owl before it departs from its winter home at the water’s edge of Cesar Chavez Park. Whether this rare and beautiful creature will return ...

On Monday, April 28, 2025, at 5 pm, the Berkeley City Council will consider the Ceasefire Resolution. passed by Berkeley’s Peace and Justice Commission last year on September 30 in an 8 to 7 vote. For ...

This is “the village,” a row of houses and churches that is the heart of the Russian Old Believer community in Oregon. It is where 17th century Russian traditions meet rural America.

Medical science has profoundly changed our lives. I am sure that I would not have survived to this old age without antibiotics, advances in epidemiology and surgery. I was a child in the 1930s. We ...

In modern times, it is established that racism and homophobia are not socially acceptable. Now, in today's culture, people are finding other ways to hate. Calling someone, "one of those strange people ...