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The Berkeley City Council will consider banning most plants and other flammable items within five feet of houses in scenic and hilly neighborhoods, which city officials consider the most wildfire-prone.

After a wildfire annihilated swaths of Pacific Palisades, first-term Mayor Karen Bass is markedly more vulnerable as a political candidate than she was during her relatively drama-free first two years in office.

J Finley joined the Berkeley Talks podcast to discuss her 2024 book Sass: Black Women’s Humor and Humanity, which chronicles how Black women have used and continue to use humor and, more specifically, sass, to speak back to power.

In 2024, the number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low for the ninth year in a row.

A new NPR podcast, Supreme Consequences, explores how recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court shape people's everyday lives.

“Jonathan Lethem’s Parallel Play: Contemporary Art and Art Writing” features 60 works from the professor's personal collection and is on view at the Benton through June 29.

Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911.

"I had to innovate new classes because COVID-19 sent the students home," the physical organic chemist and chemistry professor says.

LA Times columnist calls Mayor Karen Bass's firing of LAFD chief an act of political desperation as much as a take-charge moment.

Destroyed homes, soaring insurance premiums and forest management costs put the price of the Los Angeles fires in the hundreds of billions of dollars. But these staggering figures mask a darker ledger where costs compound silently over decades.