The vote, rescinding a nearly three-decade-old directive, comes amidst a sea change in BPD’s access to surveillance tech and other hardware.

A lunchtime fight at Berkeley High took a frightening turn on Monday when, according to police, one student threw or poured bleach on another during a confrontation on campus. Officers quickly ...

A 23-year-old San Pablo man faces several charges after Berkeley police said he was driving under the influence when he crashed his e-scooter into a vehicle Tuesday, seriously injuring his ...

Want to drink beer for a good cause? You’ll be doing just that if you purchase a four-pack of Headlands Brewing’s new Otter Worldly. One dollar from each four-pack sold will go toward ...

Anyone who lives in the Bay Area who has a car has an opinion about — or beef with — parking, and now residents of Berkeley are being asked to weigh in on ...

After a few quiet years, there are warning signs that catalytic converter thieves are back on the job. In 2023, State Farm said claims for the catalytic converter theft had fallen from their peak in ...

"Right now, we're not anywhere close to the paranoia of $8 a gallon or $10 a gallon gas," an expert said. "Talk to me in a month? I'll give you an update." ...

Del Monte canceled 20-year contracts with peach growers that abandoned an estimated 50,000 tons of peaches growing in the Central Valley.

To effectively serve communities in crisis, hospitals and health systems must adopt a larger scale, population-based approach ...

The third time might be the charm for a site in West Berkeley that has twice been considered for housing in recent years. Los Altos-based developer California Supportive Housing filed an application ...

Drawing on research developed by Paul Mayencourt’s team at the UC Berkeley Wood Lab, Mad River Mass Timber has emerged as California’s first producer of dowel-laminated mass timber, which has the ...