Adrienne Shih

The city's Zoning Adjustments Board heard an updated report Thursday on a contentious hotel project in its final phases of approval that, if approved, would be the tallest building in the Downtown landscape.

The Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education discussed at its Wednesday meeting potentially renewing the charter of a city charter school.

UC Merced closed off its campus after four victims — including two students, a staff worker and a contract worker — were stabbed Wednesday morning. A male suspect was later shot and killed by police, according to a police report.

UC President Janet Napolitano, along with 10 chancellors, filed a legal brief Monday in support of the University of Texas in a case challenging the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

Two armed robberies occurred Friday and Saturday evenings, respectively, in the city’s Southside area, near the Berkeley campus.

A list of public university rankings was released Wednesday, with UC Berkeley at the top of the list.

Berkeley Public Library was nominated Thursday for an annual national library award, allowing for the possibility of future grants and funding.

A UC Berkeley professor emeritus has been appointed to the position of the retirement liaison for campus faculty.

A joint safety patrol will ramp up its presence in the south campus area because of an expected spike in party-related incidents typically associated with the first week of the semester.