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2 days ago · The top 10 Berkeley stories in 2024. There was no shortage of major news stories, including the state Supreme Court siding with UC Berkeley to build student housing in the historic and often contested People’s Park, the shakeup in City Council, the closing of Golden Gate Fields after 90 years and much more.
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Berkeley and Alameda County election results 2024
Nov 5, 2024 · City Council. Incumbent Terry Taplin won a second term representing West Berkeley while Ben Bartlett kept his seat representing South Berkeley for a third term.Shoshana O’Keefe won the North Berkeley seat Sophie Hahn is vacating, while Brent Blackaby took up Susan Wengraf’s mantle in the Berkeley Hills (). (Read Berkeleyside’s coverage of these races at the links above.)
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Election 2024: Jesse Arreguín ahead in race for state Senate
Nov 5, 2024 · Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín and AC Transit board Director Jovanka Beckles are running to represent state Senate District 7.
Berkeley Half Marathon road closures announced for Sunday
Nov 15, 2024 · A complete list of the closures is available on the city’s website, and a PDF map (above) shows details of detours around the race courses. Riders can monitor changes to bus routes using AC Transit’s ACT RealTime system and service notices. The city listed several “significant” closures lasting large portions of Sunday morning:
Recalling DA Pamela Price will have far-reaching effects
Oct 28, 2024 · In comparison, the people opposing the recall have raised about $340,000 from more than 440 individuals, fundraising committees and businesses as of Oct. 15.. The people opposing the recall. In November 2023, the ACLU of Northern California announced that it opposed the recall campaign against Price.. Yoel Haile, the director of the ACLU’s Criminal Justice Program, has acted as a ...
Cast your vote for the 2024 Nosh Awards - berkeleyside.org
Nov 26, 2024 · Voters of the East Bay, your civic duty for 2024 is not yet done. ‘Tis the season for Nosh’s annual awards celebrating the best in East Bay food and drink, and the establishments that left us too soon.
Kamala Harris’ childhood homes in Berkeley
Aug 19, 2024 · At about age 5 she came back to Berkeley with her mother and sister. When she was 12, her mother moved the family to Canada. While her father lived in Palo Alto and her mother in Oakland during her undergraduate years, there is no readily available record of Harris living in the Bay Area again until she returned after college to attend law school in San Francisco.
How far do you live from Berkeley's tsunami hazard zone?
Dec 5, 2024 · An elementary school in Anchorage, Alaska, that was destroyed in the 1964 earthquake. Credit: USGS That worst-case scenario was based on what happened March 28, 1964, when a magnitude 9.2 earthquake killed 12 people in Anchorage, Alaska, and leveled much of its downtown commercial district.Four hours later, according to the California Geological Survey (CGS), multiple seawater surges up to 21 ...