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"The Joe Roth Story is the biggest secret in the history of college athletics," said former Cal coach Mike White, who emceed Wednesday's screening.

Fiber optic networks play a key role in transmitting feature films to laptops, cool apps to smartphones and lifelike video games to game consoles.

Galerie Lelong announced the representation of Etel Adnan in Paris and New York.

How do Tibetans thrive at such a high altitude? New research shows they owe this extraordinary ability to a rogue gene from long-lost cousins that enables them to live and work and climb ... Tibetans live in a mountainous home where the air contains 40 percent less oxygen than low elevations.

The board of the city's Alameda Health Care District has appointed Kathryn Saenz Duke to replace Jordan Battani, who resigned in May after the district affiliated with the Alameda Health System.

Payton Chung reports on " Making Effective Fixed-Guideway Transit Investments: Indicators of Success ," a Transit Cooperative Research Program report for the Transportation Research Board by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

This weekend, the Mendocino Music Festival starts up its 28th annual season, two weeks of music of all kinds, with afternoon and evening programs every day ... ... From famed pianist Stephen Prutsman playing Bach and Mozart to the last tour of the celebrated LA country rock band POCO , a staging of 'Don Giovanni' with Eugene Brancoveanu singing the ... (more)

The medical marijuana dispensaries in Berkeley, California will start giving some of their pot to low-income people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford it, thanks to a new city ordinance that passed unanimously at the beginning of this month.

They're off and running! Endorsements are coming thick and fast for Berkeley's City Council races.

Four hundred and 50 pounds of tomatoes, 300 pounds of tomatillos, 20 pounds of lettuce a week and 950 pizzas.

The demolition site at 2107 Dwight Way at Shattuck Ave. where a new 6-story mixed use development will be built.

In America today no good deed goes unpunished nor bad deed unrewarded. One of the co-authors of the notorious "Torture Memos" , John Yoo, has been awarded an endowed faculty chair at University of California Berkeley School of Law.

The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California announces the 2014 Rotary Peace Grove Awards Ceremony to honor Ed Roberts and Judith Heumann, leaders of the civil rights movement for the disabled, on July 16, 2014 at 4:00 p.m., at the Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St. in Berkeley.

Researchers have developed a new data infrastructure for measuring economic activity.

One after the next, people pause in Berkeley Bowl before the row of ice cream pints.

BERKELEY - City of Berkeley officials Thusday at least temporarily called off their threat to remove property at a homeless encampment under the Gilman Street overpass adjacent to Interstate Highway 80, saying some of the people who lived there have been able to find housing elsewhere.

With all the transfers, departures, and general retirements last season, the roster situation is far from satisfactory for anyone, especially at defensive line and in the secondary.

The Council of the City of Berkeley voted on July 1, 2014 to amend various sections of the Berkeley municipal code regarding medical marijuana dispensaries.

An Alameda County jury deliberated for less than a day before finding a Berkeley man guilty on Thursday of first-degree murder in the gruesome knife attack on a 26-year-old woman in an East Oakland apartment in 2012.

Shyan Kashani, a graduate of the University of California, is now using a new online service called Collegefeed to look for potential jobs.