Brennan MacLean

Early Saturday morning, docked boats floated calmly on still waters at the Berkeley Marina, while across the street men, women and children of all ages quickly shoveled huge piles of what they call “black gold” into their pickup trucks, or U-hauls for the more seasoned shovelers.

Last week, a team of scientists published new findings showing that the divergence between Neanderthals and modern humans occurred more recently than previously thought.

On Wednesday Berkeley Board of Education representatives met with union employees for their final mediation hearing but failed to agree on a contract after nine other meetings.

Police have yet to make an arrest two days after a shooting late Saturday night in West Berkeley that wounded two teenagers.

After more than three years of negotiations, the Berkeley Unified School District will head back to the bargaining table with one of its unions on Wednesday.

The Golden Bear Cafe has closed for most of the summer so that construction crews can waterproof the west side of Sproul Plaza to stop water from leaking into the underground parking garage below the cafe’s patio.

The last two people living at the Albany Bulb, a former landfill that has been used as a homeless encampment, were arrested Thursday, following a settlement in April that emptied the Bulb of most of its homeless population.

The UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center will relocate its operations to Stanford after 14 years of being on campus.

A UC funded pilot program tasked at providing higher quality care to HIV/AIDS patients in Alameda County has reduced hospital readmission rates at one hospital in Oakland.