This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The Trump administration’s latest vow to “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas could affect as many 50,000 ...

City of Berkeley arborist Ian Kesterson talks with students after planting a tree in West Berkeley during an event in 2023. Credit: Kelly Sullivan The Trump administration has terminated a $1 million ...

Frank Cahill, 14, competes in the National Spelling Bee in 2012. Now a 27-year-old doctoral student in comparative literature at UC Berkeley, he is the bee’s national word list coordinator. (AP ...

The East Bay Regional Park District firefighters are asking the district to consider their proposal for 24-hour staffing. Credit: Callie Rhoades The fire department for the largest regional park ...

If you want to understand the family dynamic at play at Roses on Adeline Bar & Kitchen in South Berkeley, a good place to start is with the apostrophe, or rather the lack thereof in the restaurant’s ...

Police cordoned off several blocks around Eighth and Harrison streets early Wednesday morning, while city workers removed tents and other structures from the large homeless encampment there. Credit: ...

The city announced May 14 that campers at Ohlone Park had two weeks to clear out all their belongings and leave. The night before the deadline an advocacy group filed ...

From left, Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, Mike Witherell and U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright stand before the start of a press conference at Berkeley Lab on Thursday. Credit: AP Photo/Godofredo ...

Bulldozers remove tents, tarps and trash during a sweep of the homeless encampment on 8th and Harrison streets in Berkeley on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Credit: Adahlia Cole for Berkeleyside A federal ...

More than 100 works by 80 quilters, many of whom emigrated to the East Bay from the American South in the 1900s, are on exhibit starting June 8. Sponsored by Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

A longstanding favorite for Indian food in the East Bay, Khana Peena has closed its Solano Avenue location, a tipster told us. The Berkeley location’s website is no longer active and its Yelp page ...

When the war between Russia and Ukraine started in February 2022, Sasha Zabelin felt hopeless and depressed. “I thought that even with all my education and connections, there wasn’t much I could do,” ...