Lafayette Advances BART Bike Station as Wrubel Leads Berkeley Race
Transit infrastructure, ranked-choice election tallies, and community media anchored Lamorinda and neighboring East Bay civic news on…
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Berkeley Author Ayelet Waldman Explores Feminist History in New Novel
Berkeley author Ayelet Waldman’s 19th-century historical novel A Perfect Hand, published May 19, 2026, by Knopf (a division of Penguin…
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Oakland’s Delage Revives Lunch; POJ Brings Kintsugi to Berkeley
In downtown Oakland’s Swan’s Market at 536 9th Street, 10-year-old Japanese restaurant Delage has revived midday dining with $27 to…
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AC Transit Contingency Plan Weighs 16% Bus Cuts If Measure RTM Fails
With voters deciding Tuesday on the Regional Transit Measure to address AC Transit’s $200 million budget shortfall, the agency has…
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Berkeley Weighs Measure X 10% Rent Cap as Oakland Fire Deal Advances
Across Alameda County on Oct.
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Crews halt 1.5-acre Panoramic Hill brush fire near Tunnel Fire site
High-angle wildland teams defend hillside homes as dry winds test East Bay defensible perimeters on disaster anniversary.
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Measure Z asks Berkeley to tax parcels to seed a regional public bank
Proposed six-year parcel tax would fund public banking institution dedicated to affordable housing, clean energy, and small businesses.
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Two-alarm Tunnel Road fire contained on firestorm's 35th anniversary
High-angle wildland units contain two-alarm blaze on thirty-fifth anniversary of 1991 East Bay firestorm.
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PG&E Activates Precautionary Public Safety Power Shutoff Across Berkeley Hills and East Bay Ridges
Red flag warnings trigger electrical de-energization for elevated neighborhoods as gusty conditions elevate Diablo wind fire risks…
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AC Transit stop closures in Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond this month
Lines 30 and 31 lose two stops on 29th Avenue from 5 p.m. tonight until midnight.
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AI Safety Institute METR Secures $71 Million in Funding Commitments to Expand Autonomous Risk Audits
East Bay research organization maintains strict financial independence from frontier AI labs while scaling incident investigations.
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Community
Jewish Community Center opens first piece of its Rockridge campus
The JCC of the East Bay began classes in late August at its new Oakland campus on Chabot Road.
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