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Text • Nico Savidge

Berkeley City Council District 1: Where candidates stand on housing, Hopkins, Flock and more

A grid of five headshots is arranged around a square that reads, "City Council District 1, Election 2026"
The Northwest Berkeley district is where many of the city’s most contentious debates play out on the ground. There’s a crowded field of five vying to represent it.

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Text • Kate Darby Rauch

Balompie, prized SF pupusa spot, expands into the East Bay

For its first location outside San Francisco, the popular restaurant chose Richmond, where the Salvadoran population is growing fast.

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Text • Local sponsor

The very Berkeley beauty of Buena Vista Way

The steep street north of campus boast numerous Maybeck homes, and other notable homes, including the Daniel Solomom-designed house at 2877 Buena Vista.

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Text • Izzy Bloom | KQED

Should you mail in your midterm ballot? What California election officials say

With recent changes to how the U.S. Postal Service operates and President Trump’s attacks on mail voting, here’s what to know.

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Text • Jose Fermoso

33 East Bay officials call to censure AC Transit director Joel Young

Oakland councilmembers Unger, Ramachandran and Wang are among the current and former elected officials calling for Young to be stripped of his committee assignments after a finding of gender-based harassment.

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Text • Nathan Dalton

Clinic selling peptides, testosterone and IV drips opens in Berkeley

Hydration Room on Fourth Street sells a range of controversial wellness treatments.

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Text • Momo Chang

New breakfast spot on North Shattuck, an Ethiopian cafe comes to Albany, and the East Bay gets another Grocery Outlet

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

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Text • Felicia Mello

Berkeley City Council District 7: Lunaparra’s chosen successor faces off against a People’s Park activist

Syrak Micael, a DSA member and community liaison for the Oakland Roots with a lead in endorsements and money, is running against Aidan Hill, an activist and medical case manager.

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Text • Friends and family of Joanna Katz

Remembering Joanna Katz, artist who painted portraits of women elders, landscapes marred by litter and a Berkeley utility box

A member of the Women's Caucus for the Arts and the Magpies, she worked as a bookkeeper to support her art.

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Text • Karina Ioffee

Bryn Walker couple found dead in Berkeley Hills: What we know

Michelle Min and Bryan Walker’s Berkeley-born fashion company grew into a national brand. Walker was in a mental health crisis, and the incident may be a murder-suicide.

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Text • Frances Dinkelspiel

‘Technofantasy’ or ‘eureka’?: Berkeley’s $3 billion AI mining company

KoBold Metals, headquartered above a downtown tattoo shop, is boosted by Trump’s admin as it prowls the world for critical minerals, and is funded by a who’s who of tech titans.

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Text • Lynn Sherrell

Opinion: Vote No on Berkeley’s arts tax — it serves special interests

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Measure Y has too many layers of panels and administrative oversight, includes unusual legal powers and doesn't do enough to address underlying affordability issues.

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Text • Tom Parrish, Beth Roessner and Cara Houser

Opinion: Measure Y is key for a thriving Berkeley arts scene and creative economy

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After years of theater closures, this parcel tax is needed to help Berkeley’s creative economy, which supports thousands of jobs, strengthens local businesses and makes our city a cultural destination.

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Text • By Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman/KQED

What East Bay restaurants have learned from swapping gas for electric

Electric kitchen conversions, an initiative championed by Berkeley, are expensive, but as California weans itself off fossil fuels, these chefs say it’s good for food quality, climate and health.

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Text • Karina Ioffee

Berkeley arts groups will get $6M a year if voters approve new parcel tax

As many big performing arts groups close or flounder, Measure Y’s backers say the 12-year tax is the lifeline needed to keep the theater and arts scene afloat.

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Text • Nico Savidge

Newsom signs law prompted by Berkeley housing projects that dodged labor standards

An architect's rendering shows a 23-story housing development standing along University Avenue
The law bars developers of big projects from using California’s “density bonus” law to exempt themselves from local labor mandates.

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Text • Skylla Mumana

Scott’s, Oakland’s unofficial boardroom, is turning 50. Meet the chefs who have been there the longest

Three longstanding chefs have called Scott's Seafood home for half their lives. With nearly 40 years together, they say it's like going to work with family.

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Text • Karina Ioffee

Berkeley after-school program expands by hundreds of kids, but staffing, transport remain a problem

The district says it will take at least three more years to eliminate the program’s waitlist.

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Text • Kenneth Mahaffey and Freya Hermanson

Remembering Jack Sawyer, who founded co-ops that gave over 100 Berkeley families affordable homes to own

He spent five decades financing, organizing, building, buying and advising the Parker Street Limited Equity Co-op, the Oregon Park Apartments Co-op, Fort Awesome/Cooperative Roots, the Golden Gate Co-housing Community, the Berkeley Vegan House and more.

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Text • Berkeleyside Staff

The Wire: First anti-AI protester to end up in jail is a Berkeley resident

Also: Emeryville's Folkmanis Puppets, which got its start as Furry Folk Puppets in Berkeley, is now 50.

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Text • Felicia Mello

$7.5B plan for California science agency free from Trump’s influence will go to voters

Championed by UC scientists, the bond measure scheduled for the March 2028 ballot would help offset federal research cuts.

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Text • Pendarvis Harshaw | KQED

Towering sound system named for Black folk hero John Henry comes to Berkeley library

Four 15s slappin' in ... the library?! The speakers, installed by singer and sonic designer Derwin Deon Brown II, are the centerpiece of a multi-week music series aimed at weaving new ideas into the library's culture.

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Text • Momo Chang

Alborz shutters Berkeley location, Admiral Maltings announces final days, and an Emeryville food truck goes dark

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

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Text • Momo Chang

Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese American incarceration are turned immersive at OMCA

Some 1,800 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from Oakland to camps in 1942. In a new exhibit, artist Masaki Fujihata explores the Berkeley photographer's iconic images of those events through augmented reality.

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Text • Karen Nguyen Vo and Andrew Gilbert

Around Berkeley: Dolly Parton singalong, kids music fest with instrument petting zoo; Oscar Wilde play

Other events include Community Music Day at Crowden School, "The Fall Show" at the Ashby Stage and a Halloween costume sewing circle.

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Text • Alex N. Gecan

Berkeley City Council upholds ban on tear gas in narrow vote

The council also kept prohibitions, in place since 2020, against using pepper spray or smoke for crowd control.

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Text • Nico Savidge

City Council raises height limits on San Pablo Avenue

The council voted to set a seven-story height limit along the 2.3-mile West Berkeley corridor, over the objections of critics who argued a lower cap would create more affordable housing.

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Text • Alex N. Gecan

Vegetation fire near I-80 in Berkeley turns air unhealthy

The Berkeley Fire Department brought the fire under control Wednesday afternoon but smoke lingered.

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Text • Sharon McDonnell

On a quiet street in the Oakland hills, a Thai chef is making noise with seasonal takes on Royal cuisine

Payakk, an upscale Thai restaurant from the owners of Secrets of Tiger, is pairing technique, tradition and food science in Oakland's Merriewood neighborhood.

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Text • Laura Casey

Renowned Berkeley fiber artist Kay Sekimachi turns 100 today

Often referred to as a “weaver’s weaver,” Sekimachi first learned her way around the loom while attending California College of the Arts and Crafts in the late 1940s.