Berkeley police asked motorists to avoid Ashby Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way after a three-car crash that sent one person to the hospital with minor injuries.
Lacisha Atkins turned herself in after police publicized the warrant for her arrest.
Firefighters rescued a mother and her teenage son off a second-floor balcony early Friday morning after someone set a fire outside their townhome on Stanton Street in South Berkeley, authorities report.
A hit-and-run driver struck 75-year-old Julian Curran, who grew up in Berkeley, while he biked on Fulton Street and Ashby Avenue in March.
A 74-year-old Berkeley cyclist was sent to the hospital after a driver hit him and fled the scene Saturday afternoon.
Officers confiscated two loaded guns and a BB gun, and arrested three people, during several incidents in West Berkeley on Saturday, authorities report.
This month, the community will get its latest chance to offer feedback on plans to build two roundabouts on Gilman Street at I-80 to improve a hairy traffic situation that's renowned throughout the Bay Area.
Drivers are encouraged to avoid Ashby at the I-80 overpass while Caltrans addresses the flooding.
Police released dramatic video Thursday, and announced a new arrest, in a South Berkeley robbery investigation from earlier this month.
An Antioch man has been charged with robbery after nearly running over a woman who struggled to keep her phone when she was accosted last week, according to court papers.
The "pedestrian hybrid beacon" is the first of its kind in Berkeley and is meant to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety.
A traffic stop early Monday morning led to the arrest of two Oakland men with a gun, authorities say.
A man was found dead on a West Berkeley street Monday morning, but he has not been identified and little is known about the circumstances of his demise, authorities report.
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