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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.

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.