Berkeley News

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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