40K Without Power In East Bay; BART Service, Traffic Signals Disrupted

40K Without Power In East Bay; BART Service, Traffic Signals Disrupted

A power outage stretching from Berkeley to El Cerrito has knocked out power for 40,000 residents and businesses, shut down traffic signals and disrupted BART…

Suspect In Custody After Pursuit From Oakland To Berkeley

Suspect In Custody After Pursuit From Oakland To Berkeley

A suspect has been taken into custody after allegedly hitting civilian and police vehicles during a pursuit from Oakland to Berkeley this morning, a police…

Police Looking For Berkeley Woman Who Went Missing Near Office

Police Looking For Berkeley Woman Who Went Missing Near Office

Police are looking for a Berkeley woman who went missing from her office near Oakland International Airport on Friday morning, according to police. Her colleagues…

Appeals Court Says No Environmental Review Needed for Kapor Berkeley House

Appeals Court Says No Environmental Review Needed for Kapor Berkeley House

A plan by technology developer Mitchell Kapor to build a 6,478-square-foot house with a 10-car garage on a Berkeley hillside has moved a step closer…

Judge Rules on Berkeley Cellphone Warning

Judge Rules on Berkeley Cellphone Warning

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled today that the city of Berkeley can go ahead with requiring cellphone retailers to provide a warning about…

Advocates Rally For Berkeley Recycling Director Facing Deportation

Advocates Rally For Berkeley Recycling Director Facing Deportation

Daniel Maher, a 41-year-old man with a felony conviction from 20 years ago, has run the recycling program at Berkeley’s Ecology Center for the last…

Fireworks Displays Planned in Cities Throughout the Bay Area

Fireworks Displays Planned in Cities Throughout the Bay Area

Cities all over the Bay Area will celebrate the Independence Day holiday this weekend with safe and spectacular displays of fireworks. Although most cities and…

SF Minimum Wage Rises to $12.25, Other Bay Area Cities Considering Hikes

SF Minimum Wage Rises to $12.25, Other Bay Area Cities Considering Hikes

Starting today, San Francisco will join the city of Oakland in having the highest minimum wage in the nation as it increases its minimum wage…

State High Court Grants Posthumous Law License to Chinese-Born Lawyer Who Was Rejected in 1890

State High Court Grants Posthumous Law License to Chinese-Born Lawyer Who Was Rejected in 1890

After denying a Chinese-born lawyer a law license 125 years ago, the California Supreme Court today reversed itself and posthumously admitted him to the State…

Indian Restaurant Owes More Than $112K to Eight Kitchen Employees

Indian Restaurant Owes More Than $112K to Eight Kitchen Employees

A South Indian restaurant with locations in Berkeley and San Francisco will have to pay eight of its employees a total of more than $112,000…

25 Year Old Berkeley Man Stabbed to Death in Mission Identified

25 Year Old Berkeley Man Stabbed to Death in Mission Identified

A 25-year-old Berkeley man was stabbed to death in San Francisco’s Mission District early Sunday morning, according to the medical examiner’s office. San Francisco police…

Pedestrian Struck By 38-Geary Muni Identified

Pedestrian Struck By 38-Geary Muni Identified

A pedestrian fatally struck by a bus on San Francisco’s Geary Boulevard early Monday morning has been identified as 22-year-old Berkeley man, according to the…

SFPD Taking Over Case Of Girl Found Screaming In Berkeley

SFPD Taking Over Case Of Girl Found Screaming In Berkeley

The location where a teenaged girl was kidnapped before she was found screaming for help in a South Berkeley neighborhood Wednesday morning remains unclear this…

SF-Based Chocolate Company Moving To Berkeley

SF-Based Chocolate Company Moving To Berkeley

San Francisco-based chocolate maker TCHO New American Chocolate is moving next month to a new space in Berkeley, a company employee said today. The factory,…

Did You Ride BART Feb 4-7?  Then You Might Have Been Exposed To The Measles

Did You Ride BART Feb 4-7? Then You Might Have Been Exposed To The Measles

BART riders may have been exposed to measles by a University of California at Berkeley student who traveled on trains in Contra Costa and Alameda…

Berkeley BART Station Reopens After Person Reported Under Train

Berkeley BART Station Reopens After Person Reported Under Train

The BART Berkeley Station has reopened after a person was reported under a train this afternoon, a transit agency spokeswoman said. Firefighters and paramedics responded…

University Of San Francisco Professor Killed In Fire Was Pioneer In Media Studies Field

University Of San Francisco Professor Killed In Fire Was Pioneer In Media Studies Field

A man who died in an apartment fire in Berkeley early this morning was a longtime professor at the University of San Francisco. Andrew Goodwin,…

Downtown Berkeley Post Office Campers Warned Off Property

A group of people camping out around Berkeley’s historic post office in protest of plans to close it have been warned to move off U.S….

Protesters Gather At Endangered Downtown Berkeley Post Office

More than 100 people, including some who say they plan to camp out, have gathered in front of a historic post office in Berkeley this…

Chez Panisse To Reopen Monday

A famous gourmet restaurant in Berkeley that was heavily damaged by a fire in March is reopening its doors today after a lengthy repair project….

Berkeley Police Still Searching For Suspect In Attack On Child

Police are still searching for a man who sexually assaulted a child in a public bathroom at the Berkeley Marina on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said…

Chez Panisse To Reopen By End Of Month

After a fire in March shut the doors to Berkeley’s famous gourmet restaurant Chez Panisse, the eatery is preparing to reopen later this month. The…