Ashley Wong

AC Transit has canceled all services running this Friday to schools across Alameda County and Contra Costa County in response to widespread school closures due to poor air quality.

Buffy Wicks beat opponent Jovanka Beckles for the California State Assembly District 15 seat, receiving 56 percent of the vote with 100 percent of precincts reporting as of press time at 3:01 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Five of the candidates — James Chang, Judy Hunt, Paola Laverde, María Poblet and John Selawsky – have prior experience as rent board commissioners. Only three — Soli Alpert, David Buchanan and William “Three Hundred” Caldeira — have not previously served on the board.

UC Berkeley spent close to $4 million on free speech events in the span of one month in 2017, according to documents obtained by The Daily Californian.

UC Berkeley graduate students debated and raised questions on topics ranging from student housing to funding for grants and research at the Graduate Assembly’s first meeting of the spring semester Thursday.

The UC Board of Regents reviewed the status of university’s bid for management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory at its regular board meeting Wednesday.

In the midst of one of the worst flu epidemics in America, a new study published Thursday has shown that the flu can be spread simply by breathing.

UC Berkeley anthropology professor emerita Margaret Conkey was awarded the Thomas J. Huxley Memorial Medal in December 2017 for her studies of Paleolithic cave images and the role of gender in archaeology.

A female was the victim of an attempted robbery on Upper Sproul Plaza on Thursday evening, according to a Nixle alert issued Friday.

A tractor-trailer driver was killed after his vehicle hit a divider on Interstate 80 at the University Avenue overpass Friday morning, as first reported by the East Bay Times.