UC Berkeley's initiative to create its first Black History tour is a significant step in highlighting the contributions of Black individuals in the university's history.
Berkeley community came together to discuss the future of People's Park, showcasing the importance of community engagement in shaping public spaces.
Tech cluster emerges at huge revamped industrial complex in Oakland
OAKLAND A long-time industrial center and former artists' colony in West Oakland is being reimagined as a bustling hub for tech, advanced manufacturing, biotech and clean energy firms.The vast American Steel building and nearby industrial sites in Oakland have been reborn with a new mission as a cradle for an array of cutting-edge companies.
Photos: Former Berkeley Hills home of children's author Beverly Cleary listed for $1.8 million
The former Berkeley home of beloved children's author Beverly Cleary has been listed for $1.849 million.The former Berkeley home of children's author Beverly Cleary has been listed for $1.849 million.(Christian Klugman Photography) The former Berkeley home of children's author Beverly Cleary has been listed for $1.849 million.
How a wooden fence and private parking divided a Point Richmond neighborhood
It all started as a low-stakes tiff about a 6-foot redwood fence, erected parallel to a public road and narrowing the path for those who walked past it to Richmond's popular Keller Beach.But years of neighbors' complaints and regulatory mishaps eventually propelled the dispute into 18 months of vitriolic harassment of the family that owns the home behind that fence, and a raging debate about the minutiae of city permits that played out at the Richmond City Council last week.
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against former District Attorney Chesa Boudin that helped spur his recall from office, saying there was insufficient evidence.Thomas Ostly, a former assistant district attorney fired by Boudin in his first week in office in 2020, filed a lawsuit in 2021 against Boudin and the city, alleging Boudin retaliated and discriminated against him.
Vote by UC graduate student workers to ratify labor agreement exposed a sharp divide among campuses
As University of California graduate student union leaders and supporters celebrated Saturday the ratification of a new labor agreement that ended a historic strike, the vote also exposed a sharp divide among campuses.The agreement was approved by separate units of United Auto Workers - with SRU-UAW representing graduate student researchers and UAW 2865 representing teaching assistants, tutors and other student academic workers.
UC Berkeley student groups' refusal to invite Zionist speakers draws civil rights complaint
A federal civil rights complaint accuses UC Berkeley of an "act of discrimination against the Jewish community" by allowing law school student groups to adopt bylaws refusing to invite speakers who support Zionism.The complaint filed last week by attorneys Gabriel Groisman and Arsen Ostrovsky equates anti-Zionism, which challenges the state of Israel's right to exist in the region of Palestine, with antisemitism.
The stunning fall of Jose Huizar and how it exposed 'rampant corruption' at L.A. City Hall
Former Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar's agreement to plead guilty announced Thursday marks a stunning fall for a politician who once had aspirations of higher office but ultimately became a symbol of City Hall corruption.Huizar rose from working-class roots in Boyle Heights and for years was at the center of downtown L.A.'s building boom.
Goldberg elected L.A. school board president amid tense labor negotiations
Jackie Goldberg - who served as the Los Angeles Board of Education president 40 years ago and also served on the L.A. City Council and in the state Legislature - was elected president again Tuesday and said her overriding goal is to "double down" on academics so students are achieving at grade level by fifth or sixth grade.
More than 3 million residents got early earthquake warning: 'A really big success'
More than 3 million people were notified by phone early Tuesday of a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that shook Northern California.Depending on their distance from the quake's epicenter - which was about 7.5 miles southwest of Ferndale - many residents were informed of the coming tremors before the shaking began, according to Robert de Groot, part of the U.S. Geological Survey's ShakeAlert operations team.
Berkeley police department in turmoil over leaked texts about arrest quotas
The Berkeley Police Department was in turmoil Thursday following the leak of text messages that allegedly show the president of the police officers union making racially charged remarks and calling for arrest quotas.The growing scandal resulted in the union president, Sgt.Darren Kacalek, being placed on administrative leave Wednesday.
Film celebrates Walter Gordon, Cal's first Black football player, BPD's first Black officer
Walter A. Gordon was UC Berkeley's first Black football player and made significant achievements as an athlete, police officer, and attorney.
The PBS documentary 'All American: The Walter Gordon Story' sheds light on Gordon's remarkable life and the challenges he faced as a trailblazing Black individual in various fields.
David Golovin, the Much-Loved San Francisco Restaurateur Behind Dear Inga, Dies at 41
David Golovin, the chef and owner behind Dear Inga, the Mission District restaurant known for its Eastern European food, died on November 17 at the age of 41.The cause of death was colon cancer.His storied San Francisco hospitality career spanned restaurants including Rubicon, Spruce, Village Pub, Nopa, and La Folie before he opened Dear Inga in September 2019.
Get Ready to Say Goodbye to 'Hal the Hot Dog Guy,' the Oakland A's Unofficial Mascot
It was a good, long run but soon enough, one of the most recognizable faces associated with the Oakland Athletics will disappear from the Coliseum.And no, we're not talking about anyone who actually swings a bat or fields fly balls on that hallowed ground.We're talking about the one-and-only Hal Gordon, known to most fans as "Hal the Hot Dog Guy" - as in that locally famous vendor who's become the " unofficial mascot" of the Bay Area's second-most-popular baseball team.
'Novel' materials synthesized in AI research not new - study
Google DeepMind's research on AI-generated materials is being disputed by chemists.
The chemists from Princeton and University College London found that the robotic lab system did not successfully synthesize any new inorganic materials.
Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail
Bail Out Ruthless scammers are always looking for the next big con, and they might've found it: using AI to imitate your loved ones over the phone.When a 73-year-old Ruth Card heard what she thought was the voice of her grandson Brandon on the other end of the line saying he needed money for bail, she and her husband rushed to the bank.
New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI-but loses to human amateurs
In the world of deep-learning AI, the ancient board game Go looms large.Until 2016, the best human Go player could still defeat the strongest Go-playing AI.That changed with DeepMind's AlphaGo, which used deep-learning neural networks to teach itself the game at a level humans cannot match.More recently, KataGo has become popular as an open source Go-playing AI that can beat top-ranking human Go players.
'Care Can't Wait': California's Child Care Workers Demand Better Funding for Essential Services | KQED
She works long hours, yet barely gets by.At 62, Nicholson doesn't have enough savings to retire because she has been underpaid."People still kind of see us as, I'll say, babysitters, that's really how people look at us," Nicholson said."We are actually the ones that are developing our next generation."
An associate professor at UC Berkeley known for her work on Native food sovereignty is facing backlash for falsely claiming Indigenous heritage.In a statement posted on her personal website on Monday, Elizabeth M. Hoover, associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, said she is white and "incorrectly identified" as Indigenous without researching her ancestry.
Low-income Californians could get $27K to buy an EV. But it's not easy money
If you dream of owning an electric vehicle but can't afford one, you're not alone.Zero-emission car sales in California showed an encouraging jump last year, yet most options remain unaffordable for most people.The average cost is over $47,000, with popular high-end cars like Tesla's Model 3 or the GMC Sierra truck seen in SuperBowl ads north of $100,000.
Tug-Of-War Over Values In Some School Board Elections | KQED
Last year, Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified's two most conservative board members eventually supported adopting an ethnic studies class.But around the same time, the school board banned the teaching of critical race theory.This tug-of-war over values is coming to a head this election, as the long-time incumbents face political newbies who are promising to keep race and gender identity issues out of schools.Reporter: Jill Replogle, KPCC What Do Californians See As The Actual Threat To Democracy?
California reaches settlement with Bay Area developer in first enforcement under Tenant Protection Act
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A Bay Area developer has agreed to lower rent for several tenants and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and penalties as part of California's first settlement under the Tenant Protection Act, the state attorney general announced Friday.The settlement was reached with San Jose-based Green Valley Corp., also known as Swenson Builders, a Silicon Valley landlord, which raised rent for 20 of its employees more than 150% on average and evicted six of them during the pandemic in 2021.
Opinion: Defend public education, keep our libraries open
In order to keep the anthropology library open, we, UC Berkeley students and community members, have begun an open-ended occupation of the library.Chancellor Carol Christ is going against the support of students, faculty, and our surrounding communities in order to close the anthropology, math, and physics libraries.
Study: OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4 'memorized' these books
Boffins at the University of California, Berkeley, have delved into the undisclosed depths of OpenAI's ChatGPT and the GPT-4 large language model at its heart, and found they're trained on text from copyrighted books.Academics Kent Chang, Mackenzie Cramer, Sandeep Soni, and David Bamman describe their work in a paper titled, "Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4." "We find that OpenAI models have memorized a wide collection of copyrighted materials, and that the degree of memorization is tied to the frequency with which passages of those books appear on the web," the researchers explain in their paper.
Media Mix Modeling, ML Safety Concerns with LLMs, and Data Engineering Cloud Options
Unlock the Power of Media Mix Modeling for Effective Advertising In this blog, we will provide a quick overview of media mix modeling and how you can get started with it.5 Concerns for ML Safety in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI The growth of large language models and generative AI has spurred new concerns for ML safety and cybersecurity.
As a UC Berkeley student, I am not surprised that the world's number one public university has decided to, once again, close libraries in order to pinch pennies.It is painfully clear where the university's priorities lie not with academics and researchers but with athletics, placating wealthy donors, and bulldozing over green space to build more student housing.
Can you tell how Photoshopped these celebrity magazine covers really are?
We all know that images used in ads and on magazine covers are routinely Photoshopped.However, with the exception of botched jobs that make the manipulation all too obvious, most people usually can't tell how (or how much) an image has been retouched.But it seems AI can help us with that.AI has been the source of much controversy of late, but as well as creating manipulations of its own, it can also be trained to unearth them.
Latinx organizations rally for their piece of the budget pie
From street level, the Latinx community looked almost impenetrable.Outside City Hall Tuesday, more than 100 advocates squeezed onto the Polk Street sidewalk, loudly demanding the city fund a variety of Latinx programs in the upcoming budget.Ani Rivera, the co-chair of the Latino Parity and Equity Coalition coalition and executive director of longstanding cultural institution Galería de la Raza, helmed a podium on City Hall's steps, brightening the gray morning with her magenta haircut and bubblegum-pink blazer.
Opinion: UC Berkeley should stop planned library closures
Arguably more than housing and other issues that typically attract more attention, the latest battle at UC Berkeley threatens the heart of the university: its libraries.The Anthropology Library is inside the Anthropology and Art Practice Building, shown here.Distressingly, the university says it wants to close three libraries, including its anthropology library, because it says it can't find the money in its $3.1 billion budget to keep them open.
Opinion: How California came to treat UC Berkeley students' 'noise' as a dire environmental threat
In an era of upheaval and protest at People's Park and across the country, UC Berkeley admitted its first significant wave of Chicano students in response to student pressure in 1969.Even then, the university had a housing shortage, prompting a successful effort to acquire a house near campus for the Chicano student community in the early '70s.
After months of haggling, UC regents finally bless UCLA's move to the Big Ten
After months of haggling over UCLA's end-around move to join the Big Ten Conference, the University of California regents are stepping aside and allowing the departure to proceed as planned.The regents voted during a meeting Wednesday at UCLA to allow the Bruins to join the Big Ten provided they take measures to mitigate travel and address other well-being issues involving student-athletes.
UC and striking academic workers agree to mediation amid standoff over wages
The University of California and the union representing tens of thousands of its striking academic workers agreed Friday to ask an independent mediator to intervene in stalled contract negotiations, hoping to reach an agreement to end the month-long walkout that has forced much tumult across the 10-campus system.
Opinion: UC graduate student strike highlights decades of state underfunding
The strike of tens of thousands of graduate student workers at the University of California points to an uncomfortable truth: For decades the state steadily cut funding to the university while expecting that it admit more students and charge them more along the way.That has made it more difficult for UC to stay on par with the far-better-endowed private universities it is trying to compete with.
Rare Julia Morgan mansion debuts as SF's new most expensive listing
Crafted in 1916, this enormous and historic mansion in San Francisco's Presidio Heights is listed for $36 million.That price tag makes it the most expensive residential home in San Francisco on the market now.Julia Morgan's legacy is hard to overstate: Her career as one of the only women to work successfully in the male-dominated field of architecture in the early 1900s was not only trailblazing but also prolific.
BottleRock Exclusive: Here's what's really cooking on Culinary Stage in 2023
BottleRock Napa Valley announced the star-studded 2023 lineup for its incredibly popular Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage, where chefs join forces with rock stars and other celebs to have fun and make food.The bill includes Wu-Tang Clan, Sammy Hagar, Lil Nas X, John Taylor & Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, Bastille, Keanu Reeves and his Dogstar pals Bret Domrose and Robert Mailhouse, José Andrés, Giada De Laurentiis, David Chang & Chris Ying, Roy Choi, Andrew Zimmern, Aarón Sánchez and the Voltaggio Brothers.
By Honey Mahogany- Imagine a place where trans people thrive.Imagine a place where we have a home and a community, where we can afford housing, start a business, start a family, and have access to amenities that serve us.Imagine a place where we are surrounded by affirmation-from the people in the street, the art on the buildings, the plaques on the sidewalks, the flags on the light poles.
Day Around the Bay: 49ers Announce 2023 Schedule, Will Play Monday Night Football on Christmas Day
Your San Francisco 49ers have dropped their 2023 schedule, opening Sunday, September 10 in Pittsburgh against the Steelers.Highlight games include a Sunday Night Football game against the Cowboys (Oct.8), Monday nighters against the Vikings (Oct.23) and the Baltimore Ravens (Christmas Day), and an NFC Championship game rematch against the Eagles (Dec.
Suspect Arrested In South Bay for Cold-Case 2021 Stabbing In Upper Haight
The SFPD believes they have the culprit in a fatal stabbing in the Haight-Ashbury that occurred 16 months ago.The suspect, 27-year-old Meredith Dechert, was taken into custody Friday in Milpitas, as KRON4 reports.Dechert was initially booked into Santa Clara County jail, and since then has been booked on suspicion of murder into San Francisco County Jail, per KTVU.
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Holidays 2022: These concerts will add sparkle to the season
The Bay Area's classical music organizations ring in the holiday season with style and enticing variety.Here are some of the top events coming our way.A Viennese Christmas: Cal Performances launches the season with Christmas in Vienna, featuring the acclaimed Vienna Boys Choir.Proponents of a six-century vocal tradition, these young artists arrive bearing gifts of Austrian folk songs, classical masterworks, holiday hymns and carols. 2 p.m. Nov. 26 at Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley; $20-$108; 510-642-9988; calperformances.org;
Berkeley college prep program says without BUSD funds, it's done
RISE staff and four students in the program's classroom.Credit: Ally Markovich A nonprofit that has operated out of Berkeley High School for over a decade is threatening to close up shop unless the school district starts contributing money to grow the program, which helps about 100 low-income students access higher education each year.
A chapter ends for this historic Asian American bookstore, but its story continues
Beatrice and Harvey Dong say farewell to their beloved Eastwind Books shop.Kori Suzuki for NPR The narrow storefront on University Avenue that once housed Eastwind Books of Berkeley now sits empty.The bookshelves are gone, dusty shadows on the pale yellow walls the only reminder of how tall they once stood.
'Red Baron' artist whose sculptures adorned San Francisco Bay pier posts has died
The "Red Baron" artist Tyler James Hoare has died at 82.For decades, he placed whimsical sculptures of biplanes, submarines and pirate ships on pier posts in the San Francisco Bay.JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The Golden Gate Bridge may be the most iconic monument on the San Francisco Bay.But for decades, a smaller spectacle has persisted along the East Bay shoreline - whimsical sculptures of biplanes, like the Red Baron, perched on pier pilings, flying above the water.
Stanford grapples with free speech after protesters disrupt talk by conservative judge
Stanford Law School has announced its associate dean of diversity is on leave, the latest fallout from an event that brought a Trump-appointed judge and 100 student protestors to the university earlier this month.Stuart Kyle Duncan, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, was invited to speak on Guns, COVID and Twitter on March 9 by the law school's Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian group.
The San Pablo Reservoir in the foreground and the Briones Reservoir off in the distance, seen on Saturday from the Skyline Trail in Tilden.Both are full as of this week.Credit: Zac Farber Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers.Veteran Alameda Prosecutors Depart as New DA Pushes Progressive Overhaul (SF Standard) Berkeley's downtown is facing major changes (SF Chronicle) UC Berkeley police seek man in fedora hat who chased 9-year-old child (Berkeley Scanner) Man gets 35 years to life after Berkeley road-rage murder (Berkeley Scanner) VSA hosts 44th annual culture show, addresses planning challenges (Daily Cal) Fire starts in UC Berkeley residence hall (Daily Cal) Rare beetle, rediscovered by Cal professor after 55 years, named in honor of Jerry Brown (Berkeley News) UC Berkeley student alleges sexual assault by former Cal football assistant coach (Daily Cal) UC Berkeley investigating AD Jim Knowlton, associate AD Jennifer Simon-O'Neill (East Bay Times) Nobody knows these things': The bureaucratic and mental process of filing a Title IX report in BUSD (Berkeley High Jacket) Berkeley man charged with getting drunk on church altar wine, dressing himself in clerical robes (East Bay Times) Construction Tops Out for 2590 Bancroft Way in Southside (SFYIMBY) Dimitri Argyriou Named Next Director of Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (Berkeley Lab) Daniel Ellsberg's Life Among Secrets (New York Times) Organic Midcentury Modern in Berkeley asks $1.1 million (Dirt)
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao | Saru Jayaraman and One Fair Wage | KQED
On Jan. 9, 2023, Sheng Thao became the 51st mayor of Oakland and the first Hmong American to lead a major city in United States history.She was born and raised in Stockton, to parents who immigrated from Laos to escape genocide.In her early 20s, Thao escaped an abusive relationship and experienced housing insecurity while raising her son as a single mother.
Berkeley man who destroyed $250 million of wine in fire dies
Mark Anderson at the Marin County courthouse, where he faced charges that he embezzled $1.1 million worth of wine from his clients.Anderson, a Berkeley native, later set a fire at a wine storehouse to cover his tracks.Photo: Marin Independent Journal A Berkeley man who embezzled thousands of bottles of wine from his clients and set fire to a warehouse in 2005, destroying 4.5 million bottles of wine worth $250 million, has died.
Could First Republic Bank's collapse create a recession? Experts discuss
Juliana Yamada/The Chronicle Another week, another California bank collapsing before our eyes.By now, we've all been reminded that U.S. bank deposits are federally insured up to $250,000.Amounts above that are far beyond reach for most soccer moms and barbecue dads, so they need not fear losing their bank savings.
Jupiter's Radiation Creates a Spectacle 15 Times Brighter Than the Northern Lights
Jupiter is well known for its spectacular aurorae, thanks in no small part to the Juno orbiter and recent images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).Like Earth, these dazzling displays result from charged solar particles interacting with Jupiter's magnetic field and atmosphere.Over the years, astronomers have also detected faint aurorae in the atmospheres of Jupiter's largest moons (the " Galilean Moons").
Encore: Perceiving without seeing: How light resets your internal clock
Human bodies use light to help tune their body clocks, and that's true even for some blind people.How does this work?It's a circadian mystery.MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: We mark our days by sunlight.Humans naturally wake up in the morning and fall asleep at night because our eyes use light to help tune our bodies and our clocks.
Hail falls in Southwest Berkeley Monday evening.Credit: Jasmin Levitch Heads up: We sometimes link to sites that limit access to non-subscribers.Will a public bank prove recession-proof for East Bay cities? (East Bay Times) Man confesses to clifftop fight that caused former Cal student's fatal plunge (Mercury News) Fire at Berkeley liquor store causes $150,000 in damage (Berkeley Scanner) 61-year-old man charged with Berkeley hot prowl' burglary series (Berkeley Scanner) Senate hopefuls mostly unified on Ukraine aid (SF Chronicle) Bay Area mayors endorse Lee for Senate (SF Chronicle) Berkeley's so-called' chess club brings community together (Daily Cal) Famed Bay Area Chicana artist Amalia Mesa-Bains gets first retrospective show in Berkeley (East Bay Times) IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasn't followed: What should you do? (East Bay Times) Larry Hunt, S.F.'s Bucket Man' of Market Street who played drums on Cal campus, dead at 64 (SF Chronicle) Record number of California residents apply to UC Berkeley (Berkeley News) 3 UC Berkeley researchers receive awards for outstanding chemistry research (Daily Cal)
Josh Tobin of Gantry on Continual Learning Benefits and Challenges
As newer fields emerge within data science and the research is still hard to grasp, sometimes it's best to talk to the experts and pioneers of the field.Recently, we spoke with Josh Tobin, CEO & Founder of Gantry, about the concept of continual learning and how allowing models to learn & evolve with a continuous flow of data while retaining previously-learned knowledge can allow models to adapt and scale.
Unions at UC Demand University Divest $4B From Blackstone
From left: UC Regents' Jagdeep Singh Bachher and Blackstone's Stephen A. Schwarzman with UCLA and UC Berkeley (Getty, Blackstone, University of Waterloo) Unions representing 110,000 workers at 10 University of California campuses have demanded the system divest $4 billion in holdings from Blackstone's real estate investment trust.
Unit 1 at UC Berkeley was built in 1960.It has since been renovated.Credit: Frances Dinkelspiel Congratulations!You've accepted an offer to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of California.Your starting salary as a graduate worker is around $30,000, an almost guarantee that roughly half of your income is going to rent and utilities.
Wednesday vote will determine how Berkeley plans for 9,000 new homes
Berkeley is required to plan for nearly 9,000 new homes by 2031.Credit: Kelly Sullivan Update, Jan. 18: Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani has introduced a set of amendments to the Housing Element that would address some of the concerns pro-density groups have raised about Berkeley's plan.The proposed changes were posted online Tuesday afternoon.
How bright is the Universe? NASA's Pluto probe shines a light on the long-standing enigma
Over seven years ago, the New Horizons mission made history when it became the first spacecraft to conduct a flyby of Pluto.In the leadup to this encounter, the spacecraft provided updated data and images of many objects in the inner and outer Solar System.Once beyond the orbit of Pluto and its moons, it embarked on a new mission: to make the first encounter with a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO).
UC Berkeley Law School Chooses to Bolt From Prestigious US News Rankings, as Have Harvard and Yale
The UC Berkeley School of Law is joining several of the nation's top law schools by opting out of the U.S. News & World Report's annual top law school rankings over equity and diversity concerns, but the magazine says they'll still include these schools anyway.The University of California Berkeley School of Law has many notable alumnae, from former Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren to, locally, former SF Mayor Ed Lee.
After a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Rennes 1 in 1991 under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Valérie was recruited as a researcher at Inria in 1992 in the Solidor team, and obtained a Habilitation Degree at the University of Rennes 1 in 1997 before joining Inria Paris Rocquencourt in 1999 where she created and directed the Arles team from 2002 to 2013.
Thousands of UC Berkeley employees go on strike for better wages, benefits
Boricuas in Berkeley, a peer group founded by Puerto Rican graduate students, attend the rally on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022.Credit: Ximena Natera, Berkeleyside/CatchLight More than 48,000 academic workers across the University of California system, including 10,000 from UC Berkeley, began an open-ended strike for better pay and benefits Monday.
Introducing 'Tales of The Town' by Hella Black Podcast | KQED
Today we're passing the mic to a group that's doing some substantive work, both in the community and in the media.The Hella Black Podcast, hosted by Delency Parham and Abbas Muntaqim, is a show focused on movements toward Black liberation.Right now the Hella Black Podcast is running a unique series called Tales Of The Town.
Nearly a third of southern Sierra forests killed by drought and wildfire in last decade
As climate change continues to transform California's landscape in staggering and often irreversible ways, researchers have zeroed in on yet another casualty of the shift: the forests of the southern Sierra Nevada.Between 2011 and 2020, wildfires, drought and bark beetle infestations contributed to the loss of nearly a third of all conifer forests in the lower half of the mountain range, according to a recent study published in the journal Ecological Applications.
2.1 million earthquake early warnings issued for Bay Area quake
Many San Francisco Bay Area residents were given several seconds' warning before shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck under the mountains east of San Jose this week.The activation of the U.S. Geological Survey's ShakeAlert system is the second time in six weeks that Bay Area residents got a warning before they felt shaking.
A federal court largely upheld a nearly $2.5-million jury verdict Friday against a group of antiabortion activists who secretly recorded Planned Parenthood employees and later edited the videos to suggest the organization was illegally profiting off the sale of fetal tissue.
UC Berkeley hires private security firm after fatal shooting near campus stirs safety concerns
The University of California at Berkeley has hired a private security firm to patrol an area around campus following a fatal shooting near the school earlier this month that has heightened concerns about crime.