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Berkeley Pushes for Bike Safety

Berkeley’s City Council is taking big steps to make the streets safer for walkers and bikers. They’re changing city policies and spending big on bike safety as part of an effort to eliminate severe traffic injuries on city streets by 2026.

Battle for People’s Park

There’s now a retrospective photography exhibit of the Battle for People’s Park at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, allowing viewers to reflect on the university’s past–and present–activism.

Taxes, Finances: Why Don’t We Know More?

What is financial literacy? What’s keeping us from it? And should public K-12 schools take on a bigger role in providing finance education?

The highest rents in the Bay: Berkeley student housing

A story that looks at the high cost of student housing at UC Berkeley.

Treating the Whole Person

While their fate in the U.S. remains uncertain, undocumented and immigrant communities are experiencing higher levels of trauma, anxiety, depression and substance abuse. But not only do they have limited access to quality clinicians and therapists, they also require a specific kind of care especially if they don’t speak English. Often called culturally-sensitive care, it takes into account the language and cultural context of a patient.

Struggling to Breathe in the Bay Area

Low income people and people of color struggle to get the care they need for asthma. Children are especially at risk of being hospitalized for asthma symptoms. Kaitlin Benz set out to find why that is and how providers in the Bay Area are fixing it.

HereThere Homeless Encampment Update

Some of Berkeley’s homeless population waits for the city to finalize a plan to find housing for them.

Historic Fraternity Struggles For Inclusion

Berkeley’s Sigma Phi fraternity is trying to upend gender norms by allowing women to live in the same house as them. They’re even trying to allow women to join the fraternity itself.

Hope for DACA at Berkeley

Arturo Fernandez, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, stands with his younger brothers at a Cal football game. Photo courtesy of Arturo Fernandez.

Arturo Fernandez is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. He’s also a DACA recipient. As the government threats to rescind DACA, Fernandez is concerned about the future.

Ambulance (Bill) Chasers

What can you get for $18.5 million? In Berkeley, that’ll get you more than 9,000 ambulance rides. But don’t forget to pay your bill.