BERKELEY -- A YouTube video showing two bicyclists being struck by a vehicle that veered off a Berkeley roadway in a recent hit-and-run accident has garnered nearly 18,000 views in less than 10 hours and illustrates why local officials plan to put a bi... »
Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, a film scholar who wrote the novel "Ecotopia," a 1975 underground classic that inspired generations of environmentalists and readers yearning for an ecologically sustainable society, has died in California. »
BERKELEY -- The Center for Independent Living, the nation's first organization run by and for people with disabilities, is expanding its reach by opening a Telegraph Avenue shop for recycling, refurbishing and redistributing donated equipment used by p... »
At Berkeley Rep, the ballet legend is mezmerizing as an exiled Russian general falling for an emigre waitress (the ravishing Anna Sinyakina) in 1930s Paris. The stark, atmospheric, multimedia production is by Dmitry Krymov, based on a story by Nobel la... »
BERKELEY -- Twelve ocean kayaks used for summer youth programs run by the Berkeley Boosters Police Activities League were stolen earlier this month from the parking lot where they were stored, according to the group. »
No police force for now, university says »
BERKELEY -- A crash involving a car and as many as two big rigs has slowed westbound Interstate 80 traffic near Ashby Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol. »
19 year-old released from hospital, goes to jail »
Founded in 1971 by a retired Berkeley nurse who watched with horror as thousands of birds died after an 800,000 gallon oil spill in San Francisco Bay, the organization has become the first-responder to oil spill disasters around the globe. »
Students bought and sold passwords to database, changing attendance records between October and January, officials said. »
OAKLAND -- A jury on Tuesday found a prominent and popular local ragtime pianist not guilty of nearly all allegations that he molested two 12-year-old boys in Berkeley and Oakland five years ago. »
Police said man who fired gun at police was wounded in his arm and leg late Friday night after being shot by officers who returned fire near intersection of 8th and Delaware streets. »
Family members of Peter Cukor, 67-year-old beaten to death near his home Feb. 18, are blaming police, in part, for the man's death, saying Friday that the victim called the appropriate police emergency number but officers did not respond quickly. »
Family members and attorney of Peter Cukor, 67-year-old beaten to death near his home Feb. 18, said the victim called the appropriate police number but officers did not respond quickly. Family members are 'devastated' over slaying, they said at an Oakl... »
The 141-year-old, student-run newspaper at UC Berkeley is trying to decide what to do after student leaders disqualified its ballot measure asking students to pay $2 per semester to help fund the newspaper. »
