Berkeley News

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.

The Oaxaca Valley in Mexico is regarded as the heartland of corn diversity. Not only can cultivation of the plant in the region be traced back to over 6000 years ago, it also presents the highest genetic diversity of corn in the country.

The Altadena NAACP Freedom Fund Luncheon, celebrating 30 years of service, brought the Altadena ACT-SO musicians of the past and present together.

FLEXLAB Executive Manager Cindy Regnier talks about some of the features of the brand new facility at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

A group of University of California, Berkeley-based researchers are seeking to disrupt brain-machine interfaces by developing dust-sized devices that could potentially last a lifetime.

The city has declared a homeless camp under Interstate 80 on Gilman Street a public nuisance and has given residents until Tuesday to clean up the growing mounds of trash or crews will remove all the property there.

A California college town known for its liberal activism has voted to make medicinal marijuana dispensaries give away free a small amount of their pot to the poor.

The Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms-a guarantee the Supreme Court finally and belatedly got around to recognizing in the Heller and McDonald cases.

A proposal from two Central Valley tribes to build casinos away from their existing land was approved by the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown last year, but it will ultimately be up to voters whether that agreement sticks.

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Dr. Ames is a Senior Scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, director of their Nutrition & Metabolism Center, and a Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, at the University of California, Berkeley.

Former Albany Bulb resident Alexander "Sandy" Wilson now lives with his dog, Jerry Bear, in People's Park in Berkeley.

On the nights when you're getting blown away in San Francisco, or chilled to the bone by Karl the Fog, head to the East Bay for a warmer dining experience.

CHP officers pursued a driver in a stolen car 23 miles from Berkeley to Martinez this morning before the suspect crashed and surrendered, a CHP officer said.

California Highway Patrol officials say a 38-year-old Berkeley man was arrested this morning after he lead officers on a high speed pursuit from Berkeley to Martinez.