A proposed ban on federal immigration agents from using county property and a coordinated response plan will be considered by the Board of Supervisors later this month.

Hanan Masri, whose work explores land, ancestry and her mother’s Palestinian heritage, has been crowned Berkeley’s new poet laureate. The city’s new youth laureates are friends at Berkeley High.

The Burmese restaurant is moving a few blocks to the east to take over the space formerly occupied by popular restaurant Pomella.

Cha had a short but very prolific career in multiple disciplines of art until her death in 1982 at age 31.

A big laugher who lived with authenticity and purpose, Berne worked for work for Berkeley’s Parallax Press and played banjo at music festivals around the West Coast.