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State moves at record speed to clear way for UC Berkeley enrollment
Gov. Gavin Newsom wasted no time in signing legislation on Monday to halt a cap on student enrollment at the University of California at Berkeley. The bill, known as...Read More
Senate takes up CEQA bill that would negate UC Berkeley enrollment cap
State Senate budget committee members voted Monday afternoon in favor a bill that will effectively allow about 2,600 more students to attend the University of California at Berkeley in...Read More
UC Berkeley rejects compromise to increase enrollment by 1,000 students
A group of Berkeley residents said over the weekend they would compromise with the city’s prestigious public university in a court challenge over student enrollment and housing, but University...Read More
California migrations plummet 38 percent as state population growth slows
Far fewer people are moving to California from other states, while a growing number of residents opted to leave the state during the pandemic, according to new research.Read More
AC Transit boosts East Bay, Transbay service amid rising demand
AC Transit ridership is steadily increasing and stands at 85 percent of pre-pandemic levels, leading to increases in service.Read More
NASA greenlights UC Berkeley satellite mission to Mars orbit
NASA has greenlighted a mission by University of California at Berkeley to put two satellites into orbit around Mars, university officials said Monday. Dubbed ESCAPADE — Escape and Plasma...Read More
Study finds symptomatic Covid-19 poses significant risk for pregnant women
Researchers at University of Oxford and University of California at Berkeley have found a significantly higher risk of severe complications than previously known for pregnant women with Covid-19 and...Read More
UC Berkeley unnames two halls that honored white supremacist, racist
Two halls on the University of California at Berkeley campus have had their names removed because the names are associated with people who held racist views, university officials announced...Read More
UC Berkeley pilots smartphone alert contact tracing system
A pilot program that will provide Covid-19 contact tracing to members of the University of California at Berkeley community via smartphone may go statewide, university officials said Thursday. UC...Read More
UC Berkeley Nobel Prize winning economics professor dies at 87
A University of California at Berkeley professor who won a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences passed away this week following a period of failing health, according to the university....Read More
Two UC Berkeley students spend shelter time producing hand sanitizer for most vulnerable
A pair of students at University of California at Berkeley has taken to producing more than 100 gallons of free hand sanitizer each week to give to homeless shelters,...Read More
Research finds many employers retaining workers despite closures
Timely snapshots of the effect of the coronavirus on workers at small and medium-sized businesses in the Bay Area, state and nation are the result of a new project...Read More
Berkeley pop-up diagnostic lab to help process Covid-19 tests this week
The University of California at Berkeley said Monday that its Innovative Genomics Institute is creating a pop-up novel coronavirus diagnostic lab with the capacity to process more than 1,000...Read More
Bay Area coronavirus update: SF needs more hospital beds, East Bay closes parks
San Francisco officials gave a stark warning that The City's health care system could be overburdened.Read More
Bay Area coronavirus update: rising numbers, campus closures, cruise ship evacuation
San Francisco’s total number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases, or COVID-19, jumped to 13 since the announcement of the first two cases by health officials last week. On Friday,...Read More
University police investigate morning knife assault
Police in Berkeley are investigating an aggravated assault with a knife that occurred Friday morning. The incident occurred at 2:44 a.m. on Channing Way, east of Telegraph Avenue, according...Read More
Two aggressive robberies rock Berkeley Monday
A second robbery in less than six hours occurred Monday just off the University of California at Berkeley campus, police said. The latest one occurred at 5:47 p.m. at...Read More
After more than 100 years, UC Berkeley removes name of racist benefactor Jonn Henry Boalt
The University of California at Berkeley announced Thursday that it has removed from its law school the name of a man whose 19th century writing helped stoke anti-Chinese racism...Read More
UC Berkeley experiencing partial outage
The University of California at Berkeley campus is experiencing a power outage Thursday morning, UC police said. UC Berkeley police wrote on Twitter at 7:28 a.m. about the outage,...Read More
Cal Athletics ‘concerned’ for former player after Sunday arrest
A former University of California at Berkeley football player has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a Berkeley police officer and attempting to grab his handgun in a struggle, according...Read More