Berkeley News

Nick Castle had just graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, when he loaded up his backpack with Mandarin-language books and set off for rural China to teach in the Peace Corps.

I used to downplay that argument as hyperbolic, but after reading recent research used to tout the new San Diego measure , I see the logic of these minimum-wage critics.

A fence surrounds the state prison in Florence, Ariz., where Joseph Rudolph Wood was put to death on Wednesday.

The City of Berkeley is in big financial trouble, as we all know. There is an urgent need to boost city revenues.

The execution process took nearly two hours. A fence surrounds the state prison in Florence, Ariz., where Joseph Rudolph Wood was put to death on Wednesday.

So far as cellist Tanya Tomkins and pianist Eric Zivian know, there's no other festival doing chamber music on period instruments.

I've mentioned it before, but in view of the recent hot and dry weather, it's worth repeating -- take plenty of water with you when you hike in the regional parks and other open spaces.

"Creating a Havdallah Garden." Parents and children can learn about traditional Jewish culinary and medicinal herbs and create and plant their own self-watering container garden to take home.

Upwards of 1,000 people convened at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco on July 20 - most of them to attend what was billed as an "Emergency Solidarity Gathering" for Israel.

Road Journals Blog-The western end of Alcatraz Avenue, the point where North Oakland, South Berkeley, and Emeryville meet, feels like one of the East Bay's hottest neighborhoods.

Parents and teachers at a small private school here are feverishly trying to continue classes after the family corporation that owned it since 1969 closed it earlier this month due to low enrollment.

Parents and teachers at a small private school here are feverishly trying to continue classes after the family corporation that owned it since 1969 closed it earlier this month due to low enrollment.

Jack's guest is revolutionary/evolutionary architect Eugene Tsui . Tsui is known for a number of highly experimental built projects emphasizing ecological principles as well as for his radical proposals for massive projects such as a bridge over the Strait of Gibraltar and a 2-mile-high Ultima Tower.

Picture this: Researchers use a camera and lenses to simulate an eye with nearsightedness looking at an "E" shown on a modified iPod Touch display.

Does your manager seem more relaxed about sticking to a schedule than you do? If so, he or she may have a case of the "boss effect."

The Oakland Tribune reports 15 employees complained of eye and throat irritation after someone opened a body bag containing the corpse on Wednesday.

"Following a public hearing in which was shown an apparent division of public opinion as to whether the future expenses of city government shall be increased or held to a minimum," the Berkeley City Council approved, 75 years ago, a budget for 1939-40 that increased the annual tax rate from $1.42 per $100 of assessed valuation to $1.45.

The 30th annual Berkeley Bicycle Club Criterium will bring some 400 to 450 entrants who will race in various brackets starting at 7 a.m. of up to 60 riders at a time.

Tekla Cunningham, creator and director of the Whidbey Island Music Festival and regular concertmaster and principal player with the American Bach Soloists in California, will be performing on viola and violin at this year's event.

The sign out front, left, signals the location of the 3-month-old Berkley brewpub opened by brewerowner Viet Vu, above, who offers a glass of one of his own beers, Saison.