Michelle Pitcher

Police responded to various incidents related to massive gatherings in the city Saturday night as thousands of partygoers converged on South Side to celebrate Halloween and the football game earlier that day.

A Bank of the West branch will open on the first floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building next year as part of a 10-year contract between the bank and UC Berkeley that will generate more than $17 million for the campus.

Berkeley Police Department has issued a missing person report for Berkeley resident Newell Dunlap, 81.

Berkeley police responded to an anonymous tip Friday morning that a student was in possession of a weapon, according to an email sent to the Berkeley High School community Monday.

According to a crime alert sent by Berkeley Police Department on Wednesday, two separate attempted kidnappings have been reported on the evening of Oct. 19.

Although I’m in my third year at UC Berkeley, the word “homecoming” still brings me back to the days at my big Texas public high school. That place, where my senior portrait hung on the wall by the main entrance, was always home to me. I never doubted that I belonged there — it was certainty rooted in immortalized traditions, recurring over generations and indubitably into the future.

Jeff Scott, the director of library services for the Berkeley Public Library, announced his resignation Monday after multiple protests related to the removal of thousands of books from the library’s inventory.

A 4.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Bay Area around 7 a.m. Monday, with the epicenter near Oakland.

Emergency responders quelled a fire near Tilden Park on Sunday after a vegetation fire erupted in the Berkeley-Oakland hills early that morning.

UC Berkeley officials notified some current and former students and families who may have been affected by a data breach earlier this academic year, campus announced Thursday.