UC Berkeley officials appeal court ruling reducing enrollment

UC Berkeley officials will appeal decision that reduces enrollment to last year's levels. Cal had wanted an enrollment increase of 3,050 students.

Millions who are unvaccinated provide virus new opportunity for variants, expert says

An infectious disease expert from UC Berkeley says with millions in the U.S., who remain unvaccinated, there are no assurances there won't be future COVID variants. He says easing the mask mandate can be done safely as cases plummet.

Gene Ransom, Berkeley basketball legend, killed in Oakland freeway shooting

Gene Ransom, the beloved Berkeley basketball legend, was killed Friday evening in a freeway shooting along I-880 in Oakland, according to his close friends. Saturday morning, California Highway Patrol arrested the suspected gunman.

UCSF developing tool to identify students who could be dyslexic in kindergarten, first grade

A new tool is being developed at University of California San Francisco to help identify early signs that a student could be dyslexic. It's a digital platform based on neuroscience called Multitudes, and it will be available for free to all kindergarten and first-graders at public schools in California come fall of 2023. 

UC Berkeley police arrest man suspected of 3 assaults on campus

Officials believe he's responsible for an attack at the Haas School of Business where a person was pushed from behind and injured his face.

Recent UC Berkeley grad offers free COVID-19 PCR testing at pop-site, amid concerns over unauthorized sites

Almost every day for the past three weeks, Ata Mahmoud has been volunteering her time to offer free COVID-19 testing services at her own makeshift testing site in Oakland, she's said, as a service to help her community.

Port backups, labor shortage due to sickness keeps items off of shelves

The ports remain jammed, so much so, that products keep arriving late. Now, Bay Area air quality officials want the diesel-powered container ships anchored in the Bay to go out to wait at sea instead of idling in the bay. 

Nurses protest nationwide for safer workplace conditions

National Nurses United registered nurses held a national day of action Thursday to demand that hospitals invest more in safe staffing.

For the fourth day in a row, hundreds of flights are canceled across the US

There were more than 1,000 flights canceled Monday within, into or out of the US. The country has seen well over 3,000 flights canceled over the Christmas holiday the past four days. 

Sierra could get 80 more inches of snow by Christmas

Scientists are predicting that between 60 and 80 inches of snow could actually fall between now and Christmas Day.

Off-duty UC Berkeley officer kills man who tried to rob hamburger restaurant at gunpoint

Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a man who was shot and killed by an off-duty UC Berkeley police officer who was dining inside Nation’s Giant Hamburgers when a man walked in and tried to rob the place at gunpoint.

Widespread consequences stem from Amazon Web Services outage

AWS, Amazon Web Services, with 41% of the worldwide cloud-computing business – making it the world's largest, had a major failure Tuesday affecting tens if not hundreds of millions of people. 

U.S. surgeon general warns of emerging youth mental health crisis in a rare advisory

The U.S. Surgeon General warned of an emerging youth mental health crisis in a rare advisory on Tuesday. The report cited that in the U.S., emergency room visits for suicide attempts rose 51% for adolescent girls in early 2021 as compared to the same period in 2019.

Cal's Golden Bears delivered a record-breaking Big Game performance vs. Stanford

Now that California had nearly its entire team back, the Golden Bears delivered a record-breaking Big Game performance. Chase Garbers returned from a bout with COVID-19 to throw the longest pass in the history of the rivalry against Stanford, leading California to a 41-11 victory.

124th big game in Cal and Stanford rivalry

UC Berkeley and Stanford football teams are facing off Saturday in the 124th big game between rivalries.