Berkeley

Not far from the bright city lights, people without stable housing are sleeping wherever they can.

The City of Berkeley wants help renaming a portion of Shattuck Avenue, the old eastern leg.

Nancy Skinner’s bill and the proposed ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley would be the first of their kind in the state if they pass. 

A second robbery in less than six hours occurred Monday just off the University of California at Berkeley campus, police said. 

A 77-year-old North Carolina woman is missing from Berkeley and police are asking for help finding her, police said Thursday. 

A suspect was found and arrested with the help of a California Highway Patrol helicopter after a pursuit from Vacaville to Berkeley on Wednesday, according to the CHP.

UC Berkeley says it is committed to building housing for students and the low income at People’s Park and four other sites it owns. But advocates for the park say that is not the place to build housing and rallied at an open house held on campus by the university officials.

This protest follows a lawsuit the district says it received Friday about an incident that allegedly took place on campus last year. Both students and parents say it’s something the administration isn’t doing enough to stop. 

Recently, Berkeleyside reported that graffiti was found on a school bathroom stall door that listed names of  “Boys to watch out for," labeling some as “rapists.”

Bob Iger tweeted on Thursday: “Our company @WaltDisneyCo apologizes to the Emerson Elementary School PTA and I will personally donate to their fund raising initiative.”

A man has been arrested and charged with trying to kidnap a 3-year-old girl for sexual purposes at the Berkeley.

San Francisco's Market Street may not be the only Bay Area street to go car-free. 

Such a single-use permit costs $250, or schools can pay $536 for an annual license.

Police say 29-year-old Alexander McGee struck and killed a 58-year-old woman while fleeing from officers who were in pursuit.

The proposal asks the city manager to consider amenities in the outdoor shelter such as climate-controlled, wind-resistant durable tents with wooden pallets for support, portable toilets and handwashing stations, shower and sanitation services, garbage pickup and needle disposal and an agency to manage the program, which would be open 24 hours a day.

The driver of the gray sedan has not yet been found. 

A female pedestrian was struck and killed in Berkeley Monday morning by a car that was fleeing UC Berkeley police.

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