East Bay

Doctors, nurses and therapists employed by LifeLong Medical Care walked off the job across the East Bay, disrupting care at the community health network's clinics. The strike affects facilities serving low-income and uninsured patients in Berkeley and neighboring cities. Details on the workers' specific demands and the duration of the walkout were not immediately available.

Several East Bay neighborhoods are seeing a surge in real estate bidding wars, with homes selling for millions of dollars above their asking prices. The intense competition among buyers is driving sale prices sharply higher in some of the region's most sought-after areas. The trend points to renewed pressure in the Bay Area housing market, where limited inventory continues to fuel aggressive offers.

Andy Katz, a director of the East Bay Municipal Utility District, says climate change brings the biggest challenges facing the water agency. Writing in Berkeleyside, he highlights how shifting weather patterns threaten the reliability of water supplies for the East Bay and argues the district must adapt its planning to cope with droughts and other climate impacts.