President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.

Nine-year-old San Francisco site will bid adieu at month’s end, another victim of a diminishing news industry.

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The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”

Headquartered above a downtown tattoo shop, KoBold Metals is boosted by the Trump administration and funded by a who’s who of tech titans.

Tom Steyer’s campaign is making use of paid astroturfed social media support.

Mission Local is expanding to new neighborhoods, with beat coverage in the Tenderloin, Richmond, Sunset, Bayview, and Mission District.

With $54 million in assets, Sogorea Te’ has big dreams for its reclaimed West Berkeley shellmound site. Its voluntary shuumi land tax has become wildly popular in the East Bay even as it’s drawn criti...

The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United State...

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Nearly 1 in 30 have been laid off. The term “climate change” is banned. And federal budget cuts could destroy world-class research teams.

Writer, editor and publisher Malcolm Margolin, who promoted Indigenous cultural renewal across California, died Wednesday. He was 84.

Rich Lyons is preparing to testify before a U.S. House committee investigating on-campus “antisemitism upheaval and hatred” in a hearing with huge stakes both for Cal and the wider UC system.

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OPINION: What is one more cut to another revered institution? President Trump is trying to create a sense of paralysis. We don’t have to comply, Frances Dinkelspiel writes.

OPINION: What is one more cut to another revered institution? President Trump is trying to create a sense of paralysis. We don’t have to comply, Frances Dinkelspiel writes.

The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened

There are no housing projects under construction in downtown Berkeley, while prime spaces cleared out for new development sit vacant.

Growing protests in front of the Fourth Street Tesla shop in West Berkeley aim to hit Elon Musk in the pocketbook. What’s the impact?

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“They want you to be alone. Nobody is going to fix this alone. That’s not how this works.” - Timothy Snyder. Click to read How We Fight Back, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

The man, who’s attempted to disrupt multiple Berkeley protests, said he pulled out the stun gun in self-defense after his hair was pulled.

More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.