Jan 1, 2025 · I would know. During freshman year, I distinctly recall eating the hot dog-and-scallion buns from the Sheng Kee on Telegraph Avenue four times a week, not because they were great, but because I was too drained to look any further — much less hunt for the southside spot with the fluffiest pancakes or the coziest coffee shop.

Jan 1, 2025 · City officials say they don’t know how many such intersections there are in Berkeley, but estimate it will take years to mark all the spaces where parking will be prohibited under the law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2023.. Berkeley parking enforcement officers will issue warnings to drivers who violate the law during the first three months of 2025, city officials …

Jan 7, 2025 · The first event (at 11 a.m. on Jan. 12) is a workshop on how to “become an immigration rights ambassador,” aimed at advocates and allies. The presentation will cover how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates and gathers information, and what to do during encounters with ICE.

Jan 9, 2025 · Berkeley CERT training, May 2013. File photo: Emilie Raguso. Berkeley is offering free disaster readiness training for anyone looking to shore up safety precautions in their neighborhoods or just learn a little more about first aid and disaster response.

Aug 19, 2024 · At about age 5 she came back to Berkeley with her mother and sister. When she was 12, her mother moved the family to Canada. While her father lived in Palo Alto and her mother in Oakland during her undergraduate years, there is no readily available record of Harris living in the Bay Area again until she returned after college to attend law school in San Francisco.

Jan 2, 2025 · Soil, for example, can contain concentrations 10 to 100 times higher than what the city found in the liquids samples, according to Vetter. Even if the leachate were to leak into groundwater or flow into the Bay, it would be “substantially diluted before it will enter the drinking water path,” he wrote.

Jan 8, 2025 · Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers. The leader of a white supremacist group that came to Berkeley in 2017 has been sentenced to two years in prison for inciting violence.AP

Nov 22, 2024 · It’s difficult to draw too many firm conclusions about why Ishii prevailed by just over 1,000 votes, and county election officials have not yet released detailed results showing how the candidates fared in different parts of the city.

Jan 8, 2025 · The state already had some provisions for amnesty for non-permitted units. Last year a new law spelled out how property owners could obtain permits by meeting certain sections of the state housing code — which is what guides local safety inspections — rather than the building code, which in most cases requires more drastic and costly changes. ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Ashley Nelson Levy and Adam Levy, who founded Transit Books in 2015. Credit: Joanne Furio In January 2023, Adam Levy, who founded Transit Books with his wife, Ashley Nelson Levy, told his distributor to be prepared. Adam hoped that one of its writers, the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, would win the Nobel Prize in literature for his body of work, which includes …