The survey by the Bay Area Newspaper Group also details the "pension pickups" some government employees receive
The new position should also help the assemblywoman's district, which includes Berkeley in its boundaries that stretch from Piedmont to Hercules.
The decision to put a second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab at the Richmond Field Station, announced with fanfare last year, has changed. A new campus is still planned in Richmond but with UC Berkeley joining as the lead partner.
UC Berkeley has put a chain-link fence around the empty lot next to University Village in Albany that was occupied for three weekends by Occupy the Farm. The campus proposes to use the property for a Sprouts Farmers Market.
Two proposed amendments to the state Constitution would lower the voter threshold for funding measures
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The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) board of directors voted Tuesday to hike water rates 19 percent over the next two years for Albany, Berkeley and the other communities served by East Bay MUD.
BART on Tuesday asked for a state mediator to help with stalled negotiations with two unions whose contracts expire at the end of this month.
A newly revised version of the UC Berkeley plan for development next to University Village in Albany returns to Albany's planning commission Wednesday night. The proposed Sprouts Farmers Market has moved, and a public art mural is added.
Former BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger, who resigned under pressure two years ago, received $333,000 in salary last year even though she didn't work at any time during the year, according to the Contra Costa Times.
For its extensive work on the downtown plan, the City of Berkeley's Planning Department has been named this year's winner of the "Best Practices" award from the Northern California Chapter of the American Planning Association.
A long battle over a Berkeley marijuana collective, Greenleaf Wellness Group on Dwight Way, came to a head Tuesday night when the City Council voted 8-1 to order it closed.
An Alameda County Superior Court judge has rejected a lawsuit filed in August, Larsen v. City of Albany, challenging Albany's approval of the environmental impact report for UC Berkeley's development plans at University Village in Albany.
Bill Lockyer – a UC Berkeley grad, Oakland native and veteran East Bay political figure who served 25 years in the California Legislature and is now state Treasurer – announced Monday that he's retiring from politics.
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The BART board agreed Thursday night to a five-month trial of allowing bikes on BART at any time, including commute hours, on uncrowded trains. The experiment runs from July 1 to Dec. 1.
The Berkeley City Council agreed to a range of proposed city fee increases, such as doubling dog license fees and imposing a new fee on those who sell homemade cookies and other foods.
In its first night meeting since 2001, the BART board of directors Thursday will consider a staff recommendation to allow bikes on BART during commute hours as well as non-commute hours.
The California Legislature Tuesday urged the U.S. Postal Service not to proceed with plans to sell Berkeley's century-old Post Office. Mayor Tom Bates and other local leaders have campaigned against the sale.
Under proposed fees before the Berkeley City Council Tuesday night, dog licenses would double in cost, pet adoptions would rise by $25, producers of homemade cookies have to pay $425 if selling through a retailer, and ear piercers would pay $44.
It was standing room only today, Saturday, for a meeting on a proposal by UC Berkeley, the East Bay Regional Park District and the City of Oakland to cut 85,000 non-native trees in the East Bay hills to reduce the risk of wildfires.
Occupy the Farm activists have issued a call to "Re-Occupy the Farm!" this weekend, May 18 and 19, at the UC lot in Albany that they occupied last weekend before being evicted by UC Berkeley police on Monday.
UC Berkeley officials on Wednesday chastised the urban-farm activists from Occupy the Farm for an "illegal and misguided occupation" of a UC-owned lot next to University Village over the weekend.
Early this morning, Monday, UC Berkeley police evicted the urban-farm activists who on Saturday occupied a UC-owned lot next to University Village in Albany. One person was arrested for failing to comply with police instructions.
The Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board has given its blessings to a restaurant serving upscale Russian peasant/worker food, a performance stage and a retail space in the long-closed Cody's bookstore on Telegraph Avenue.
Members of World Can't Wait who oppose continuing U.S. detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay plan to protest at the Saturday commencement address by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at the UC Berkeley law school.
Berkeley's is conducting its once-a-decade redrawing of district boundaries for the eight City Council seats. The council will conduct on a public hearing at its May 7 meeting on the seven proposals received.
"We won't go gently," Bates said at a news conference this morning.
Berkeley city staff is asking the City Council on May 7 to prohibit exposing neighbors to secondhand smoke in all multi-unit housing and to require all new leases in multi-unit housing to include a non-smoking clause.
Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, Senator Loni Hancock, Assemblymember Nancy Skinner and Berkeley City Council membes will sign a joint letter appealing the sale of Berkeley's historic Post Office at a press conference Friday.
The Berkeley City Council voted in support of a citywide minimum wage of $10.55 an hour, tied with San Francisco's for the nation's highest. It also supported divestment from fossil fuels, tobacco and guns, and limits on check-cashing stores.
Tonight's meeting will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. at the North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave. (at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way) in Berkeley.
Berkeleyside captured this video of a clash between police and Berkeley CopWatch supporters at the Tuesday, April 30, Berkeley City Council meeting. The group was questioning the death of Kayla Moore in police custody on Feb. 12, 2013.
On the Berkeley City Council agenda for May 7 is a proposal from Councilman Darryl Moore that the city join the growing ranks of U.S. cities with bicycle-sharing programs.
Berkeley resident Minh Dang recently helped launch the U.S. Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking. She is one of 15 women being recognized as part of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.