Want to know how Alameda County spends your money? The county has established a new website to make it easier for citizens to see where tax dollars are being spent.
Janet Yellen, a UC Berkeley emeritus professor, was confirmed by the Senate today to be chairwoman of the powerful Federal Reserve Board. The margin of approval was the thinnest in board's history.
The cost of parking at several BART stations – including North Berkeley, Ashby, Rockridge and El Cerrito Plaza – are going up this month.
The CPA license of Berkeley accountant Craig Steven On has been revoked in a disciplinary action by the California Board of Accountancy.
Only five days in the past month have not had wood-burning bans imposed by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Another Spare the Air day has been declared for Saturday, making 2014 completely no-fires so far.
Two appeals have been filed of the Albany planning commission's approval of the UC Berkeley plan for a Sprouts Farmers Market and senior housing next to University Village in Albany.
New California laws include a minimum wage hike, a 3-foot buffer for bicyclists, ability to park at broken meters, commuter lane access for green vehicles and driver's licenses for unregistered immigrants among many others.
For the 26th day in the past 40 days, wood-burning is banned in the Bay Area Friday because of air pollution. The ban goes into effect whenever the Bay Area Air Quality Management District declares a Spare the Air day.
The long-stalled BART labor contract was approved at last by the BART board today after a disputed clause was resolved. The union vote takes place Friday.
Wood-burning is banned again in the Bay Area on Thursday – the 25th day of the past 39 that Spare the Air Alerts have been declared by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District because of heavy air pollution.
The Bay Area is seeing record-low rainfall levels so far this season, with levels far below the previous lows.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has again banned wood-burning – on New Year's Eve – with yet another "Spare the Air" alert because of unhealthy levels of pollution in the air.
E-file and Free File can speed refunds, IRS says.
Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed Berkeley attorney Alison Tucher, a partner at Morrison & Foerster, as an Alameda County Superior Court judge. It was one of several new appointments.
Air quality officials say they issue an average of more than 200 citations on every day there is an alert. There's another alert tomorrow, Sunday.
It's the seventh straight day a wood burning ban has been put in place
Members of the key union for AC Transit employees has ratified a tentative agreement, averting a threatened strike, AC Transit said. The rank-and-file had twice rejected earlier tentative agreements.
It's the sixth straight day the wood burning ban has been put in place
It's the fifth day in a row a wood burning ban has been in place, due to a another Spare the Air Day declared by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
Air quality district issues a wood burning ban for the fourth straight day
AC Transit has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing drivers and mechanics, forestalling a strike that could have occurred at the end of 60-day cooling-off period on Sunday at midnight.
For an unprecedented 11th day in a row, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a Spare the Air alert for Wednesday, meaning no fires or wood-burning. The continued cool weather is keeping pollution trapped.
An amended federal suit seeking to block the planned Albany Bulb eviction was filed Monday, with a large increase in the number of Bulb dwellers who are plaintiffs.
For the 10th straight day – yet another new record – fires and wood-burning are banned in the Bay Area because of air pollution trapped by cold temperatures.
As the U.S. Chemical Safety Board urges more rigorous refinery regulation in California, the Berkeley City Council will review a proposal on Tuesday for stricter public-notice requirements for toxic releases from refinery accidents.
BART fares will rise on Jan. 1 as part of previously approved, periodic increases to pay for new cars to replace the aging fleet as well as other improvements.
With cold temperatures still trapping pollution close to the ground, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has declared another Spare the Air alert for Monday, which means no fires or wood burning.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has extended the ban on wood-burning for record eighth day in a row with yet another "Spare the Air" alert because of unhealthy levels of pollution in the air.
Bay Area air officials have extended the ban on wood-burning for the seventh day in a row with yet another "Spare the Air" alert because of unhealthy levels of pollution in the air.
Some of the items involving East Bay legislators this week in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento
After nearly two hours of public comment, largely from opponents, a major UC Berkeley-sponsored plan for a Sprouts Farmers Market and senior housing in Albany won key approvals from the city's planning commission Wednesday night.
A public hearing and possible key vote by the Albany planning commission are scheduled Wednesday on a major UC Berkeley commercial development proposal for a Sprouts Farmers Market and 175 units of senior housing next to University Village in Albany.
A City of Albany work crew that went to the Albany Bulb Monday morning to remove two campsites was confronted by protestors opposed to the city's planned eviction of Bulb encampments.
Bay Area air officials say air pollution remains at unhealthy levels during the current cold snap and have banned wood burning for the third day in a row.
It may be the one of the worst cold snaps in the Bay Area in years, but air quality officials are banning wood fires again on Monday, the second day in a row, because of unhealthy air pollution levels.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued this season's fifth Spare the Air Alert – for Sunday – meaning no fires in the fireplace or wood stoves.
A group of students called the "CoveredBerkeley Brigade" are going to homes in Berkeley today to let residents know about new health insurance options under Covered California, the state program under the U.S. Affordable Care Act.