UC Berkeley to start drilling for soil samples in People’s Park, the next step in building housing there
Cal plans to construct housing for 1,200 students on one of Berkeley’s most historic sites.
Frances Dinkelspiel (co-founder) is a journalist and author. Her first book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, published in November 2008, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Her second book, Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California was published in October 2015 and was both a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Frances is a former staff reporter for the Syracuse Newspapers and the San Jose Mercury News. Her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Daily Beast, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere.
Cal plans to construct housing for 1,200 students on one of Berkeley’s most historic sites.
Someone put a white skeleton mask and some graffiti on the statue of William Byron Rumford on Sacramento Street.
Trees must be cut up and put in green plant debris carts or taken whole to the city’s transfer station.
Doctors, nurses and technicians who work in the emergency department at Alta Bates were vaccinated Saturday.
The new director joins from the King County Library System in Washington, the busiest library system in the U.S.
A red flag alert in December is highly unusual but reflects the fact that there has been very little rain this fall.
The building is unsafe and the top five floors, made of wood, must be removed by Dec. 31.
The new editor-in-chief will lead our pioneering nonprofit newsroom to new heights in its second decade.
Marsha Tolliver had to leave the room she was renting and was forced to choose between buying a uniform for work or paying for a hotel.
The statues stood on the pedestrian bridge over I-80 for 12 years. It will take 3 days to remove them.
After burning for three days, the fire at 2067 University Ave. is now extinguished and only a small number of Berkeley firefighters remain on scene.
Firefighters and police responded to a six-alarm fire in downtown Berkeley on Saturday evening at a building under construction.
The ‘”love-em” or “hate-em” art pieces will be gone by Tuesday.
Moore left Berkeley to be closer to his eight grandchildren, but couldn’t resist the lure of local politics.
The salaries of the mayor and City Council members will increase by 75%, thanks to the apparent passage of Measure JJ.
The slate definitely took four seats and is poised to win the fifth.
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