Summary: Donald Trump’s second term is a disaster. Fortunately, voters understand this. Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 37 percent and he is underwater on all the important metrics: the economy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What should progressives do when confronted with the fact that they live in a city that honors a figure who has advocated beliefs or committed acts that progressives would normally condemn? Berkeley ...

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 ...

If you haven’t been following the Hopkins Corridor Project, the redesign to replace parking with bike lanes along the section of Hopkins with the Monterey Market and locally owned shops has created an ...

The East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceEDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series about people and businesses that make things in Berkeley. People don’t often think of Berkeley as a factory town, but ...

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 ...

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 East Bay's Non-commercial VoiceA recently-revealed account of the founding of People’s Park, the south-of-campus former political battleground which celebrates its 35th birthday today as the ...

California’s most pre-eminent sculptor of the late 19 th century was both a disabled Berkeley man and one of the first artists from the then-young state to earn international attention and acclaim.