Residents of a Derby Street neighborhood were enjoying time with their families at home shortly before they became witness to Berkeley’s second homicide of the year on Wednesday night. Read More…
Oakland police announced charges against a man not only for murder in the September death of Berkeley man but also for murder in the July death of an eight-year-old Oakland girl, helping piece together a string of murders that rattled neighborhoods in Berkeley and Oakland. Read More…
After a year in the dorms, you either no longer mind the sound of urination two feet away from you, or you end up checking Craigslist apartment listings as often as you check Facebook. Dorm life can definitely be amazing, but it can also definitely suck at times. If you Read More…
Former paralegal David Tursi filed paperwork on July 9 to run for Berkeley City Council in District Two, making him the fourth candidate to run for a council member position in the West Berkeley district.
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Berkeley police officers responded to reports of possible gunfire in West Berkeley around 5 p.m. Wednesday and found bullet casings and blood but no victim or victims at the scene. Read More…
After years of mismanagement and denial, the city is at the end of the fiscal line. There is more than $1 billion in unfunded liabilities for employee benefits and capital improvements and inadequate annual revenues to keep up with annual costs. About $252 million, about 80 percent of the city Read More…
Tom Turman has been living on 9th Street in West Berkeley for well over 30 years and has loved everything about the neighborhood except one thing — the house next door. For the past three decades, the residents of 1722 9th Street have allegedly subjected Turman to verbal insults, screaming Read More…
Around this time in 2011, Berkeley saw its first and last homicide of the year. Less than four months into 2012, the city has already seen three homicides as well as multiple nonfatal shootings, alarming residents who live in neighborhoods struck by the violence. The city’s first homicide of 2012 Read More…
Police stressed the importance of community involvement in maintaining public safety at a meeting held Monday night to discuss the two shootings that injured a total of six people in the city earlier this month. At the meeting — which was held by Berkeley City Councilmember Darryl Moore at the Read More…
Alice Waters arrived just before noon Friday to say goodbye to employees and customers as her small cafe in West Berkeley prepared to close its doors one final time. Cafe Fanny, which is co-owned by Waters, marked the end Friday of almost three decades of serving the community at the cafe’s location Read More…