A power outage from a failed substation cable rattled routines and disrupted studying for many students Monday night. The outage first struck at 9:38 p.m. and affected more than 12,000 PG&E customers throughout Berkeley. 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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Two 20-year-old Berkeley residents were the victims of an armed robbery Thursday night on the corner of Parker Street and Hillegass Avenue. Read More…
Berkeley Police Department and UCPD officers reported they will be taking precautions and advised Berkeley residents to do the same following an increase in smash-and-grab auto burglaries in the last month in the city and the areas surrounding campus. Three auto burglaries were reported in the Witter Field parking lot Read More…
A male was a victim of armed robbery early Monday morning on Southside. At approximately 5:45 a.m., a 21-year-old male of unknown affiliation was walking on Dana Street and as he approached Durant Avenue, a vehicle pulled up and three suspects got out of the back of the car and Read More…
The driver who was involved in a vehicle collision with a tree last week that left one woman dead and a child in the hospital with serious injuries has been charged with vehicular manslaughter while driving drunk. Jose Lumbreras, 24, was driving a Cadillac in which Milanca Lopez, 22, and Read More…
Berkeley Police Department announced it will be audited by a communications company in a department effort to curtail criticism regarding its media policies, following a March incident when a department spokesperson was ordered to a Bay Area reporter’s home in the middle of the night to ask for changes in Read More…
A vehicle collision with a tree in central Berkeley early Friday morning left one woman dead and two other occupants in the hospital with serious injuries. At about 1:13 a.m. Berkeley Police Department patrol officers responded to California Street, just north of Allston Way, where a Cadillac had struck a Read More…
A number of armed robberies occurred within the last week in the vicinity of the UC Berkeley campus, adding to a growing list of students and residents who have had their property stolen while outside at night. In addition to a recent increase in robberies along Gayley Road on the Read More…
A UC Berkeley affiliate was the victim of armed robbery Friday night near Northside. A 20-year-old male was walking towards the Foothill Dining Commons on Gayley Road south of Hearst Avenue when he was approached by a male around 11:00 p.m, according to police. After asking to use the victim’s cell Read More…