Berkeley News

New novels by Ayelet Waldman, Heather Brittain Bergstrom and Jessica Levine and poetry by Matthew Zapruder and Viola Canales are among this month's new releases by Bay Area authors, as is a collection of short novels by the late Gina Berriault.

Sophomores Brandon Mah and Christian Vazquez talk while enjoying the sun at the UC Berkeley campus on April 18, 2014 in Berkeley, Calif.

"Suhr says the constraints, to name a few, included everything from young people, old people, people in crisis, the mentally ill, wet people, and people near roadways.

Dear UC Berkeley Chancellor Dirk and UC President Napolitano, I attended a memorial gathering yesterday in honor of Mr. Damon Frick, a coworker at the International House on the UC Berkeley campus who was killed on the job in a horrible and sad accident last week.

UC Berkeley's response to campus sexual assault is the subject of a federal investigation, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed Friday.

A group of 40 anti-nuclear activists, including a Dominican nun, were peacefully arrested at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory at the conclusion of an annual Good Friday protest organized by local interfaith groups.

University of California, Berkeley's freshman acceptance rate for fall 2014 plunged 3.5 percent amid changes to its admission process, including a greater emphasis on admitting out-of-state students.

A five-alarm that destroyed the warehouses of three West Berkeley businesses on Saturday night caused an estimated $9 million in damage, Berkeley fire Acting Deputy Chief Avery Webb said today.

This edition, we feature a critical conversation on Dalit women's rights in India, in the context of an upcoming report back with Asha Kowtal and Thenmozhi , at UC Berkeley, by members of the All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch about their recent month long Dalit Mahila Swabhiman Yatra .

The San Francisco Police Department took over as the lead agency investigating the case of a teenage girl who was allegedly kidnapped in the city and found naked and pepper sprayed on a Berkeley street.

The Alameda County District Attorney's Office said Thursday that it will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting an 8-year-old girl during a sleepover at an East Oakland home last July.

A jury says a former priest convicted of felony sex abuse charges in Louisville should serve a 15-year prison sentence.

The find, announced Thursday, excited planet hunters who have been scouring the Milky Way galaxy for years for potentially habitable places outside our solar system.

Berkeley Playhouse has announced the addition of Daren A.C. Carollo to their full time staff.

Adultery isn't just a crime in the eyes of your spouse. In 21 states, cheating in a marriage is against the law, punishable by a fine or even jail time.

Authorities received a call just after 5 a.m. Wednesday of a female yelling for help, said Berkeley Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Coats.

A 16-year-old girl was found naked and pepper-sprayed in Berkeley early Wednesday at the corner of Ashby and Piedmont Ave. in Berkeley.

While Berkeley businesses the Wooden Duck and Import Tile are recouping after a five-alarm warehouse complex fire Saturday night, an artisan's collective also operating in the destroyed complex took "devastating" losses and will be looking into fundraising efforts in the coming months, its proprietor said today.

Arguably the most famous line from "Jerry Maguire" – the movie that took super agent Leigh Steinberg from sports-famous to dinner table-famous – is "Show me the money!" But in his meandering one-hour talk to UC Davis law students Wednesday, Steinberg spoke more about finding the "kwan," a concept from the movie meaning love, respect, ... (more)

At 8:08 a.m., a woman entered a store in the 1400 block of Shattuck Avenue, filled a large bag with meat and left without paying.