The council also kept prohibitions, in place since 2020, against using pepper spray or smoke for crowd control.

Berkeley firefighters brought a vegetation fire near Interstate 580 in Northwest Berkeley under control Wednesday afternoon, but smoke from the fire turned air unhealthy in the city. West Frontage ...

Pulitzer winner Miriam Pawel’s new book traces the university’s history through the stories of five alumni whose lives it transformed, its tangled relationship with the state’s prosperity and its ...

Payakk, an upscale Thai restaurant from the owners of Secrets of Tiger, is pairing technique, tradition and food science in ...

Hida Tool and The Gardener offer everything from weeding knives to a decorative dandelion seed head in a clear cube.

Officials voted to set a seven-story height limit along the 2.3-mile West Berkeley corridor, and turned down a proposal to lower the cap.

Often called a “weaver’s weaver,” she first learned the loom while attending California College of the Arts and Crafts in the ...

Nosh covers food and restaurant news across the East Bay, and each week we publish one article covering all the restaurant openings and one article covering closin ...

Beverly Cleary, Ron Dellums, Raymond Burr, Ruth Riechl and many other famous Berkeley people have been added at our readers’ suggestion.

Starfish Arts, launched by a tattoo artist and therapist in the Gilman District, includes a queer-friendly gallery, an ...

Fire officials said the blaze Friday evening on Browning Street was centered around a kitchen microwave. Another resident ...

Katz is running unopposed for a sixth term representing Berkeley on the East Bay Municipal Utilities District Board.