After being closed five days, the Bay Bridge reopened tonight, Monday, with traffic flowing by shortly after 10 p.m., hours ahead of schedule.
Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates's appeal to block the sale of the city's historic Post Office was dismissed today, Tuesday, by the Postal Regulatory Commission. The commission chair nevertheless criticized the Postal Service's handling of the issue.
Here's what you need to know about the Bay Bridge closure, biking on the new span and what will happen to the old bridge and its good luck troll.
At a forum for transit planners Thursday, Anthony Bruzzone of the Arup planning firm said traffic demand on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge could exceed capacity by 2035 or 2040.
Closures are to allow workers to add a new FasTrak-only lane in conjunction with other work taking place on the new bridge.
The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge was shimmed up this past weekend with temporary steel plates so that it can be ready for its scheduled Sept. 3 debut, bridge authorities said today, Monday.
The old span will be closed on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 28, and the new span will open on Tuesday morning, Sept. 3
With the planned sale of the Berkeley Post Office possibly on hold pending the outcome of an appeal, protesters continue to occupy a tent camp next to the building with no apparent intent by postal authorities to evict them.
Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said Wednesday he's not optimistic about his appeal to the U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission to block the planned sale of Berkeley's historic Post Office but that he's still "fighting every step of the way."
A BART train broke that down in the Transbay Tube this morning, Wednesday, has been cleared and full service restored, but the system was still experiencing delays.
Governor Jerry Brown today, Monday, signed AB1266, a California law allowing transgender in the state's K-12 public schools to choose either the boys' or girls' locker room and which sex-segregated team to play on. We'd like to know your thoughts.
A hearing has been granted by the U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission for an appeal by Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates to block the impending sale of the historic Berkeley Post Office, Bates' office announced today, Monday.
The California Department of Public Health warns that a type of ginger candy imported from Vietnam contains excessive lead and should be discarded immediately.
Plans for large apartment buildings near the UC Berkeley campus are sprouting like summer flowers. Yet another one – six stories with 70 units – is being presented to the Zoning Adjustments Board Thursday night.
Berkeley and the eight other cities in the East Bay Green Corridor have realized their three-year goal of developing a standardized permitting process for residential solar energy. They plan a press conference Tuesday, Aug. 6, to describe it.
The day after Gov. Jerry Brown blocked a possible BART strike for a week, AC Transit workers gave notice today, Monday, that they could go on strike at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, potentially stranding 100,000 East Bay riders.
Governor's inquiry board schedules a Wednesday hearing on the BART labor negotiations while AC Transit employees issue a strike warning for this week
What you need to know if you're driving, carpooling, taking the bus or riding the ferry in the event of a BART strike
With no sign of a likely settlement in the BART contract talks, Bay Area transit agencies are preparing for another BART strike Monday when the 30-day cooling-off period expires. BART would offer limited bus service from some stations.
The federal program known as SNAP has been in high demand during the recession
The head of the agency hired to assist Albany's homeless, the Berkeley Food and Housing Project, said today, Monday, that the offer of short-term free housing is conditional on recipients being able to continue paying rent after the subsidy ends.
BART is reporting continuing delays on the Richmond line again this morning, Monday, following yesterday's significant problems on the same line.
What rude or selfish actions bother you the most when you ride BART trains? We'd like to know.
Update: By noon today, Sunday, earlier significant delays on BART's Richmond-Fremont line this morning had been reduced, BART said. Service was hampered by a power outage.
More than 100 people rallied at the main Berkeley Post Office Saturday afternoon to protest the planned sale of the landmark building by the U.S. Postal Service.
To relocate the Albany Bulb homeless by an October deadline, Berkeley Food and Housing Project announced they will subsidize free housing for the first three to six months. Some concerns were expressed at the public meeting Thursday night.
BART is showing a mock version of the interior of its planned new car of the future at the MacArthur station between 2-7 p.m. today, Tuesday, through Friday.
The Albany Planning & Zoning Commission on Wednesday will review the 4-story, 177-unit senior housing component of UC Berkeley's proposed commercial development next to University Village in Albany.
Some of the action involving East Bay politicians in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
BART service has been restored between North Berkeley and Richmond this afternoon, Thursday, following a temporary shutdown due to a fire next to the tracks. Delays persist.
The Berkeley City Council has approved a new pilot "parklets" program, intended to follow the paths of San Francisco and Oakland in transforming a limited number of parking spaces into privately constructed miniature parks.
The state Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by backers of Prop 8, the California ban against same-sex marriage, for an immediate halt to gay marriages pending the outcome of their suit seeking to keep the law on the books.
Backers of Prop 8, the state ban on same-sex marriage, asked the state Supreme Court today, Friday, to adopt a narrow interpretation of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case and to allow the state ban to stand.
Here is some of the action involving East Bay politicians this past week in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
The City of Berkeley and UC Berkeley have joined with 17 other public agencies to form the "nation’s largest collaborative procurement of renewable energy for public agencies." They plan solar panels on rooftops, fuel cells and solar thermal power.
BART ranks third among top U.S. train systems in terms of moving passengers, with labor costs and fares that compare favorably. Click on the graphics for details.
BART announced Tuesday night that trains are unlikely to be back in service on Wednesday, which would be the third day of a BART workers strike.
A tentative agreement Monday averted a strike by East Bay Regional Park District workers that could have closed swimming at Lake Anza and other activities in the district's network of parks on July 4 and 5, two of the parks' busiest days of the year.
How have you managed? How are others coping? What has warmed your heart or made you shake your head?
Some of the things East Bay elected leaders were working on this past week