A male ended up in the hospital with injuries this weekend after he was the victim of an armed robbery early Saturday morning on Southside. At approximately 3:50 a.m., a 26-year-old victim was walking northbound on College Avenue when he was approached by a male suspect at the intersection of Read More…
Hundreds of Berkeley residents took part in a citywide Community Emergency Response Teams training exercise Saturday morning to prepare for possible environmental disasters. As anxiety grows over the inevitable arrival of “the Big One” — the major earthquake predicted to hit California within the next 20 years — many in Read More…
A middle-aged man was taken to the hospital Friday after UCPD received a report of a fight in progress at People’s Park. Officers arrived on the scene at 12:59 p.m. and found the 43-year-old victim lying on the ground. The Berkeley Fire Department then arrived and transported the victim to Read More…
A two-alarm fire that broke out at a West Berkeley residence shortly before 3 p.m. has been controlled by members of the Berkeley Fire Department. Read More…
An open letter to Mayor Tom Bates — from “homeless, hopeless, and helpless tenants” of the apartment building destroyed by a fire Friday — is circulating around the city of Berkeley. The letter claims that the owner of the building has long neglected the needs of the tenants and has Read More…
By the time UC Berkeley senior Ian Larson woke up his roommates on March 8, their living room was chest-high in smoke. Larson ran out of his burning apartment at around 4 a.m. barefoot and wearing only his pajamas. The three-story, six-unit apartment building at 2227 Dwight Way — which Read More…
Following a fire that broke out early Thursday morning, a Berkeley apartment building at 2227 Dwight Way is set to be demolished. The six-unit apartment building, located south of the UC Berkeley campus, was home to about 10 residents before the fire ravaged through its three floors and caused the Read More…
What remains of 2227 Dwight Way is little more than a shell of a building. The residents of the three-story, six-unit apartment building — now with blackened walls and broken windows — have all been displaced, and those who live in the surrounding buildings are only being allowed in their Read More…
UPDATE: At around 7:50 a.m., the main body of the fire that broke out at a three-story apartment building near the intersection of Dwight Way and Ellsworth Street early Thursday morning had been put out, according to Gil Dong, deputy fire chief for Berkeley Fire Department. The department declared the Read More…
UCPD and campus agencies are working to combat increases in the number of alcohol-related illnesses reported early in the semester over the past two years, though it is unclear whether those efforts have succeeded.
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