Berkeley and Alameda County election results 2024
Nov 5, 2024 · City Council. Incumbent Terry Taplin won a second term representing West Berkeley while Ben Bartlett kept his seat representing South Berkeley for a third term.Shoshana O’Keefe won the North Berkeley seat Sophie Hahn is vacating, while Brent Blackaby took up Susan Wengraf’s mantle in the Berkeley Hills (). (Read Berkeleyside’s coverage of these races at the links above.)
New Mayor Adena Ishii pledges to make Berkeley a beacon
Dec 6, 2024 · “Yesterday, we almost had a tsunami,” Buddenhagen said at Friday’s ceremony, referring to the brief period the prior morning when forecasters feared an offshore earthquake could send destructive waves to the Northern California coast. “Today we have a different kind of a metaphorical, democratic tsunami of an all-new group of …
Berkeley Half Marathon road closures announced for Sunday
Nov 15, 2024 · A complete list of the closures is available on the city’s website, and a PDF map (above) shows details of detours around the race courses. Riders can monitor changes to bus routes using AC Transit’s ACT RealTime system and service notices. The city listed several “significant” closures lasting large portions of Sunday morning:
Berkeley Rep's '24-'25 shows range from classical to cutting edge
Oct 3, 2024 · The 2024-25 season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre has begun with rave reviews on its first production Mexodus — and that’s just the beginning, with six shows to follow. In addition, a new program lets parents attend a matinee while their children play theater games next door.
Berkeley City Council District 5: Who's running, where they stand
Oct 10, 2024 · District 5 encompasses the area bounded by Spruce Street to the east, Cedar Street to the south, Sacramento Street to the west and the city limits to the north.. The district includes much of Hopkins Street, which was the focus of one of Berkeley’s most bitter political battles in recent years, as city officials planned — then shelved — a project to install protected bike lanes along the ...
How far do you live from Berkeley's tsunami hazard zone?
Dec 5, 2024 · An elementary school in Anchorage, Alaska, that was destroyed in the 1964 earthquake. Credit: USGS That worst-case scenario was based on what happened March 28, 1964, when a magnitude 9.2 earthquake killed 12 people in Anchorage, Alaska, and leveled much of its downtown commercial district.Four hours later, according to the California Geological Survey (CGS), multiple seawater surges up to 21 ...
East Bay Nosh | Berkeleyside — Restaurant news and more
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New exhibit shows how Japanese Americans were uprooted from …
Oct 25, 2024 · “I had known about the redlining that was pretty prevalent before and after the war,” said David Ushijima, a third-generation Japanese-American who is one of the exhibition’s co-curators.“You can see on the map how it was pretty effective at keeping minorities west of MLK. I had done some work in South Berkeley through the development of Ashby BART station when South Berkeley was an ...
Protesters against homeless policy occupy Berkeley’s Old City Hall
Oct 4, 2024 · Demonstrators begin an occupation at Old City Hall in Berkeley, Sept. 28, 2024. Credit: Erin Sheridan. Unhoused residents and advocates are pitching tents on the lawn of Old City Hall in protest of a new Berkeley policy giving the …
Election 2024: Who's running for Berkeley mayor?
Oct 15, 2024 · Berkeley’s mayor is the leader of the City Council and is responsible for running its meetings. The mayor also holds influential roles on the council’s budget committee, where they weigh funding requests from council members and city departments, as well as the agenda committee, which helps decide when and how the council takes up legislation.