Berkeley drew national attention when it set out to end single-family zoning four years ago. Here's how the "Middle Housing" plan would work.

Aiming to avoid a costly legal battle, Berkeley is planning to pause its ban on rent-setting algorithms two months after RealPage, one of the companies targeted by the ordinance, filed a federal ...

After a pandemic pause and a movie cameo, the iconic Loard’s Ice Cream location has returned with old favorites and new additions.

In a heavy-hearted Instagram post, El Patio, a beloved West Berkeley bar and restaurant, announced it will be closing in early July. “We’ve watched kids grow up and eat their first limes here. We’ve ...

As Berkeley Hills residents clear vegetation around their homes to prevent wildfires, they're developing a new landscape design paradigm.

See all the design contest winners The contest’s winning landscape-design ideas, announced last year, emphasize the 5-foot home ignition buffer zone, the so-called Zone 0. Teams competing in the ...

The 39-unit Step Up apartment building, located at 1367 University Ave. (near Acton Street), opened to the community with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, June 13. Credit: Sara Martin/Berkeleyside ...

Pivot Bio, which sells an alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizers for farms, said the move to St. Louis is one of consolidation.

BFD has proposed ember-proof zones around homes in the Berkeley Hills as a defense against fires like the one that scorched the Oakland-Berkeley hills in 1991. Photo copyright Richard Misrach Grace ...

BUSD’s workforce housing development is one of only 12 in California that aims to help educators live and stay in the cities where they work.

Editors’ note: This story about international students was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Since early ...

A computer scientist may not be able to hold her wedding in China with her family. A sociology student from the Netherlands has stopped posting online about politics — just in case. Others are afraid ...