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5 residents displaced by house fire on 1000 block of 67th Street Google/Courtesy Last Updated 4 hours Ago A house fire on the 1000 block of 67th Street on Monday afternoon left five uninjured residents and two pets without a home to return to that evening, except that which the American Red Cross can provide them with. The Berkeley Fire Department, or BFD, received report of a basement fire in the two-story residence at 1:11 pm, according to Keith May, BFD assistant fire chief. Seeing as though the residence is in Oakland, on the border of the two cities, the Oakland Fire Department responded...

February 26, 2021 SHARE Not far from the crates of kazoos, stacks of Slinkies and boxes of nylon knee highs, Chris Cella, Institute for School Partnership warehouse manager, finds the owl pellets — regurgitated clumps of mouse fur, vole bones and sparrow feathers. Cella packs the wrapped pellets into big, red boxes along with tweezers, petri dishes, paper plates, magnifying glasses, gloves, books, posters and other supplies for the mySci unit “Adapting to Change: How do living things get what they need to survive?” Cella’s team will then deliver the boxes to schools across the regi...

Before the start of the pandemic, the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley operated with more than 40 commissions and about 15,000 employees, respectively. Employees were spread across the city and campus, filling the pre-pandemic Berkeley landscape. With the coronavirus shifting the traditional workplace to remote work and posing a variety of challenges, both the city and campus have developed virtual work strategies that may carry on into the future. Although campus already had systems in place to manage remote work prior to the pandemic, according to campus Chief People and Culture Officer Eug...