Last week’s decision by UC Berkeley officials to end a maintenance agreement with the city for People’s Park has led to some controversy in the city and left community members questioning the park’s future. -more-

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Tuesday, July 11

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Rent control hikes housing costs in Berkeley -more-

It was a beautiful, sunny, blue sky afternoon Saturday in Berkeley’s Cedar Rose Park when the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe opened the East Bay leg of its 38th annual season of free outdoor theater with a production of the company’s new musical play “Eating It,” a cautionary environmental science fiction tale about genetically modified agriculture, known in some circles as “frankenfood.” -more-

A preliminary technical report on radiological monitoring at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and its micro facilities nestled near the university campus, was released last week to fiercely divided reviews. -more-

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At tonight’s meeting, the City Council will chew over a big list of items, including an amendment to curb the circumstances in which a landlord can boot a tenant out and move in. -more-

Students, shoppers and UC Berkeley employees had their Monday morning disrupted when fire alarms went off in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Building and Eshleman Hall, near the intersection of Telegraph and Bancroft Way. -more-