After 22 years, Kriss Worthington will not seek re-election to Berkeley City Council
The long-time councilman made a playful announcement Thursday.
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Construction on Telegraph Avenue lot, vacant for 30 years, is step closer
The owner, Ken Sarachan, has enlisted a developer and a sign announcing construction has gone up on the property at Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street.
Charter change would put Berkeley police oversight into citizen hands (but whose?)
The Berkeley City Council is slated to vote Tuesday on whether to place a controversial police oversight charter amendment on the November ballot.
Opinion: City Council must reject the misguided ballot initiative regarding Berkeley’s Police Review Commission in its current form
The ballot initiative to create a new police oversight commission was crafted in secret and creates an onerous bureaucracy. A new initiative is in the works. Let's wait for that.
Opinion: Berkeley should reduce, not enhance, its Police Review Commission
The push to give the PRC more authority over the police department is unneeded and unwarranted in Berkeley, which has an excellent department. Stop this misplaced zealotry.
Opinion: We must stop new initiative to hand power over the police department to Berkeley’s Police Review Commission
Two PRC members circumvented fellow commissioners to put a measure on the ballot to strip oversight of BPD from the city manager.
Remembering Frances Townes, 101, fierce advocate for art and the homeless
At 70, Townes founded the Berkeley Ecumenical Chaplaincy to the Homeless to bring Berkeley’s churches together to provide meals, shelter, and other services to homeless people.
Officials butt heads over Premier Cru, rethink parking plans at Berkeley Way
Tension was high Tuesday night as the Berkeley City Council debated interim uses for the Premier Cru site and plans to build homeless housing on the Berkeley Way parking lot.
City to make ‘last-ditch effort’ to use BUSD chambers before pursuing new home
"Let’s put forward our best proposal," said Mayor Jesse Arreguín. "If they accept it, great. If not, we’ll build this facility."
Could sanctioned homeless camps be headed for Berkeley?
Council says it will consider the possibility of sanctioned encampments for homeless residents in Berkeley.
Naked activist slams city officials after ‘free the nipple’ proposal dies
A naked activist unleashed a 5-minute tirade in a mostly empty City Council chamber in Berkeley on Tuesday night. (The following story contains nudity and profanity.)
Berkeley officials split over impacts of new zoning code proposals
Council voted Tuesday to embark on an intensive project to develop extensive new development standards to preserve the city's discretion over land use decisions.
Motorists beware: Berkeley votes to expand parking enforcement
Council voted Tuesday night to ramp up parking enforcement by adding 15 automated license plate readers to the small pilot program it launched last year.
