Berkeleyside

06/01/2026

The Bay Area is generating enormous wealth and growing impossibly unaffordable. Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden recently sold their Berkeley house after a layoff and moved to Santa Fe.

06/01/2026

Born in Tehran, he earned a Ph.D. in city planning and lived many years in Berkeley.

05/31/2026

Police provided few details on the killing or the victim, a woman in her 30s, saying “the investigation is still in its preliminary stages.”

05/30/2026

The Trump administration cited "foreign funding" in suspending nearly $21 million in research grants to UC Berkeley last month. But some researchers say they took no foreign money. And the countries named by the NSF were largely traditional U.S. allies such as the United Kingdom, Australia and Switzerland, rather than nations the federal government has identified as security threats.

The Trump administration cited "foreign funding" in suspending nearly $21 million in research grants to UC Berkeley last month. But some researchers say they took no foreign money. And the countries named by the NSF were largely traditional U.S. allies such as the United Kingdom, Australia and Switz...

05/29/2026

A man who witnessed the shooting at the homeless shelter known as Harrison House testified the dispute started with an argument over music.

05/29/2026

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

05/29/2026

The snowpack melted earlier than normal in the Sierra Nevada watershed that supplies Berkeley and much of the East Bay.

05/29/2026

Can you believe it’ll already be June after this weekend?! 🤯🌈 Here are a handful of events in Berkeley to end your May on the right foot 🦶

Head to the link in bio for more.

Weekly column by Andrew Gilbert and Karen Nguyen Vo

05/29/2026

Also: A UC Berkeley student holding a Palestinian flag appears to have temporarily been denied his diploma scroll during commencement. And a ban on most AI use at Cal's law school.

05/28/2026

Xavier Becerra, Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco are running for California governor. Two will advance to the November 2026 election.