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As of 2025, when resources allow, The Scanner is branching out to cover newsworthy stories that don't involve public safety, particularly when they are the issue of the day or the most significant item at city meetings.
Paul Buddenhagen set to return as Berkeley city manager
Buddenhagen was a top deputy in Berkeley before he left to become Emeryville city manager in January 2023.
The Gene Ransom I knew: More than a basketball player
Ransom's former partner, Paula Gerstenblatt, wrote this remembrance in 2022. TBS has published it along with an update about the case.
Update: Questions raised amid student walkout for Gaza
Readers said the pro-Palestine protest march stopped at a nearby Jewish community center where young children were present.
Bridge for cyclists, pedestrians to open at Gilman Interchange
Other changes coming Saturday include a "temporary roundabout" on Gilman Street west of Second Street.
Berkeley Scanner wins national award for online local news
TBS submitted its coverage of DA Price, a fatal police shooting and the discovery of skeletal remains at UC Berkeley for consideration.
Berkeley officials urge PG&E to underground local power lines
A California Senate bill approved in 2023 made federal money available for projects to underground utility lines.