Yes, that is hail in Berkeley!
After weeks of blue skies and warm temperature, a cold front moved into the Bay Area, bringing rain and hail.
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.
Police arrest 6 who may be involved with series of laptop thefts from cafés
Berkeley police set up an undercover operation Saturday night to try to stop the laptop crime spree that has plagued local coffee shops. 26 computers have been stolen.
Berkeley first city in nation to become a ‘sanctuary’ for cannabis
The City Council voted to prohibit city employees, including police officers, from spending city money to help the federal government crack down on cannabis businesses.
Remembering Frances Townes, 101, fierce advocate for art and the homeless
At 70, Townes founded the Berkeley Ecumenical Chaplaincy to the Homeless to bring Berkeley’s churches together to provide meals, shelter, and other services to homeless people.
Berkeley dismantles homeless encampment outside Old City Hall, one arrested
After living outside of Old City Hall for around three months, the group of people experiencing homelessness were ousted Thursday morning.
Woman, 27, dies after AC Transit bus and car collide, crash into Ashby Ave. homes
An AC Transit bus collided with a car on Ashby Avenue on Thursday morning, and the car driver was killed, authorities report.
UC Berkeley spent close to $4M on security in just one month in 2017
The amount is only a fraction of what Cal and Berkeley spent on police and other costs during a spate of often violent rallies in 2017.
Race to replace Assemblyman Tony Thurmond attracts large amounts of cash
Buffy Wicks, who has worked for both President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, has dwarfed her competitors by raising $520,124. The AD 15 race is one of the costliest so far.
One day, one night: The fuse that lit the Battles of Berkeley
A year ago Milo Yiannopoulos's speech was shut down by black-clad protesters. We present an oral history of that night, a reflection of the political divide that envelops the U.S.
Berkeley author Jane Anne Staw writes about the pleasures and importance of thinking small
Focusing on the immediate allowed the author to shed her feelings of isolation and to connect with the wider world. It turned out to be a good tool for writing as well.
4 sue UC Berkeley, others, for lack of police response during Milo event
Those suing say that police hid inside the MLK Student Union instead of protecting people from the violence perpetrated by black-clad demonstrators.
With restaurants booming, Berkeley’s vacancy rate for commercial spaces is at 5-year low
Robust growth, especially in the restaurant sector, has reduced the city-wide ground-floor vacancy rate to 4.6%.
