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Berkeley, California is located in Alameda County. Zip codes in Berkeley, CA include 94704, 94707, and 94705. The median home price in Berkeley is $660,000 which is roughly $508/per square foot. More Berkeley information.

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Local news for Berkeley, CA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

3 hrs ago | NBC Bay Area

Feds May Clear-Cut 82,000 Trees Near UC Berkeley

The federal government may chop down some 82,000 trees near Berkeley's Strawberry Canyon and in Claremont Canyon in the hills near North Oakland, according to reports.

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3 hrs ago | Contra Costa Times

Berkeley names new schools chief after difficult search

The school board Wednesday night named Donald Evans as the new superintendent to oversee the district after a tumultuous search that took over a year.

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6 hrs ago | KTVU Oakland

UC Berkeley law student in Vegas exotic bird death takes plea

A University of California, Berkeley, law school graduate has taken a plea deal in the beheading of an exotic bird last October at a Las Vegas Strip resort Prosecutor Frank Coumou said Thursday that 26-year-old Hazhir Kargaran appeared in court Wednesday and was sentenced to two days in the Clark County jail, a one-year suspended sentence, a $1,000 ... (more)

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6 hrs ago | Contra Costa Times

Graduate exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum features six artists

An exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives spins an ancient-but-technologically astute portrait of expression from six graduates of the UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts program.

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10 hrs ago | KESQ-TV Palm Desert

Gov. Brown continues climate change crusade

Gov. Jerry Brown is set to continue his climate change charge, joining scientists releasing a 20-page call to action on environmental problems including pollution, extinctions and population growth.

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12 hrs ago | Business Journal

Red Cross Bay Area names new CEO

Cloutier will leave his position as program director for public policy, community health and civic engagement at the San Francisco Foundation, where he served for two years.

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16 hrs ago | Las Vegas Herald

Third person charged in death of bird at Flamingos Wildlife Habitat

Clark County prosecutors have charged a third University of California, Berkeley law student in connection with the October beheading of an exotic bird on the Strip.

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17 hrs ago | WTKS-FM Maitland

iHeartRadio Live: John Fogerty

John Cameron Fogerty achieved fame as the lead singer/songwriter and guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival and has since gone on to a chart-topping solo career.

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17 hrs ago | SFGate

Berkeley ice cream battle

BERKELEYSIDE: The owners a popular Telegraph Avenue ice cream shop have asked Berkeley officials to revoke the permit for a new ice cream take-out window proposed to open right across the street, at Rasputin Music.

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Wed May 22, 2013

San Francisco Magazine

Hosts a Free Release Party and Reading

For our June issue, we asked fifteen of the Bay Area's best writers to do something a little different.

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Tablehopper

510 Openings and Expansions: Easy Creole, Chez Panisse, Toast, and Keren Cafe

As previously mentioned on tablehopper , pop-up alumni Grant Gooding, Jess McCarter, and Jeron Thomson were opening ~EASY CREOLE~ in Berkeley, and now it's open.

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The Guardian

Cooked by Michael Pollan

Is our modern way of eating killing us and our sociability? Michael Pollan serves up an extra large helping of food for thought Pollan speculates about the growing resistance of micro-organisms to antibiotics, on our western diet rich in fats and carbohydrates Photograph: PR Despite the four recipes appended to it, Michael Pollan 's Cooked doesn't ... (more)

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Business Journal

Can you read Charles Darwin's handwriting? UC Berkeley wants you

Think you can read Charles Darwin's handwriting? Try deciphering this label on a beetle he collected in Tierra del Fuego in 1833.

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O, The Oprah Magazine

15 Riveting Reads for the Long WeekendBetween all the barbecues and...

Stirring new fiction from Isabel Allende, a novel of life after a brother's suicide, a biography of SimA3n Bolivar and more.

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Oakland Local

In Oakland Classrooms, Students "Learn to Work"

Ed. Note: In 2011, California's legislature passed AB 790, a statewide initiative aimed at addressing the growing number of high school graduates unprepared or under-prepared for either college or a career.

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Space.com

Lost Apollo 11 Moon Dust Found in Storage

Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.

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New Scientist

String theory may limit space brain threat

LEGIONS of disembodied brains floating in deep space threaten to undermine our understanding of the universe.

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SF Classical Voice

Survival Economics: Small Opera Companies Drive Change

On a recent Sunday in April, conductor Mary Chun lowered her baton after the final sparkling note of Bonjour M. Gauguin , a new chamber opera produced by Berkeley-based West Edge Opera.

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Oakland Local

Clitoral Mass set to hit Oakland May 25

Spanning six major North American cities this year, Clitoral Mass 2013 will kick off Saturday, May 25 in Oakland.

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East Bay Express

One-Night Stands

Premium Rush . With a brewery tour and food for sale. Benefitting the East Bay Bicycle Coalition.

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