Berkeley News

Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.

Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he does not know if the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open over Labor Day weekend because of safety concerns.

The City Council in Berkeley, Calif., is expected to raise fees Tuesday on tattoos and homemade cupcakes, among other fun stuff, in an attempt to offset the city's $5.1 million deficit over the next two years.

My lunch companion seemed to be obsessed by thin dough. Showering me with questions, he wanted to know all about yufka, katmer, baklava and borek.

Just months after California voters passed Proposition 30 to stave off education cuts, a push is under way to ensure that the next stream of higher education funding flows out of the ground.

Merritt College professor Claudio Duran, right, speaks to students and faculty members during a meeting of Club Altazor on Monday, May, 6, 2013 in Oakland, Calif.

Dear Straight Talk: I'm 17 and being seduced by a "Mrs. Robinson." She's a rich divorced friend of my mom's in her 40s, in great shape and very attractive.

We love to catch up with local artists during the weekend at ART Jamboree at the Grand Avenue Mall in downtown Milwaukee.

Runners cross the starting line at the Bay to Breakers race on Sunday morning. Photo: Will Kane, San Francisco Chronicle Participants take part in the 2013 Bay to Breakers on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif.

A University of California, Berkeley study testing 32 common lipsticks and lip glosses found metals like lead, titanium, manganese and chromium.

Doug Coe, a normally confident engineering manager for the new east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, walked into the nearby Oakland project office looking as if he were fighting back tears.

New Zealand basketball's biggest name, Sean Marks, has farewelled his mother Sheila who died suddenly on Mother's Day.

BRENTWOOD – Dogged by self- consciousness and suburban angst, I've always shied away from partaking in the whole U-pick produce craze that took hold a couple decades ago.

Occupy the Farm supporters returned to the UC Berkeley-owned Gill Tract on Saturday morning to re-occupy the urban farmland where activists want to grow food for surrounding communities.

I am a mother whose son has been diagnosed with a rare form of tumor in the spine.

As graduation day approaches, some high school seniors without college plans fear they may have missed their chance to pursue higher education at the school of their dreams.

When you listen to a lively Mozart piece in a major key, what colors do you see? If bright yellows and oranges swirled in your mind, it wouldn't surprise a group of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.

According to new research, the brain perceives speeding objects as further along in their trajectory than seen by the eyes, giving us time to respond.

A slew of politicos and celebrities have been asked by their alma maters to come dole out advice to the class of 2013 in the coming weeks.

The White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and a little girl meet up in the Berkeley Playhouse production of Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr .