Berkeley

Since the start of the year, there have been more than two dozen such thefts, and most have occurred after dark, police said.

The event hosted by Council members Ben Bartlett and Cheryl Davila and Wireless Radiation Education & Defense (WiRED) will be held at the South Berkeley Senior Center at 2939 Ellis St. near Ashby Street at 7 p.m. Thursday.

A restaurant manager at the DoubleTree Hotel in Berkeley has been fired and charged with drugging and raping a guest back in June, authorities said. 

One person was killed and multiple lanes of westbound Interstate Highway 80 in Berkeley were blocked following a crash early Christmas morning.

Drivers headed northbound on Shattuck Avenue into downtown used to have to make a quick left at University Avenue, then an immediate right to continue on Shattuck. But not anymore. 

Video shows the woman, seen wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, waiting in the lobby area with the customer's food in one hand and a drink in the other. 

Not everyone is on board with the city of Berkeley's plan to address the affordable housing crisis. Critics say the elimination of BART parking lots would make public transit more inaccessible.

The yet-to-be-named news site will be launched in spring 2020.

A former linebacker for the University of California was arrested for attacking a police officer early Sunday morning after asking to drive the patrol car. 

Starting on the week of Dec. 16, northbound drivers on Shattuck will stay on the same stretch of road as southbound drivers on the section between Center Street and University Avenue rather than the current route veering right of that stretch.

The city said residents with garbage pickups on Thursdays or Fridays should plan to put their carts out a day later on Thanksgiving week.

East Bay Regional Parks firefighters helped rescue a llama named Lovely, found taking a stroll near Tilden Regional Park.

You wouldn't know it from the outside, but tucked behind a bookstore on busy Bancroft Way in Berkeley is something very special.

Berkeley Humane Society said a service dog has been stolen over the weekend, and said one of its volunteers was last seen with the animal.

A victim in Oakland's Upper Rockridge neighborhood was confronted by two men wearing masks. The suspects took the victim to a downtown Berkeley ATM and demanded cash.

A new study of the nine-county Bay Area region found strong correlations between segregation and life outcomes.