Winston Cho

UCPD announced Tuesday that it has identified the killer in the unsolved 1992 homicide of Grace Asuncion, a campus student who was stabbed to death in Eshleman Hall.

Citing public transportation congestion in the Bay Area, Tideline Marine Group — a water taxi service operating out of the Port of San Francisco — is pushing the California Public Utilities Commission to allow the company to run its ferries from the Berkeley Marina to San Francisco on a regular schedule of times.

The National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, filed an official complaint June 30 against WeWork — a $16 billion startup with an office in Berkeley that provides communal working spaces — regarding the legality of an arbitration agreement waiving employees’ right to file lawsuits against employers.

Since the building which housed the Mental Health Adult Services Clinic closed June 27 because of a flea infestation, staff members have been distributing medication and government checks to those with mental illness in two vans.

For the third consecutive year, the University of California topped the list of universities granted U.S. patents in 2015, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association.

Multiple fire departments were dispatched to two Berkeley fires last week — one in the Berkeley Hills and another in a building near a private residence.

Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope by UC Berkeley planetary scientist Michael Wong, who led the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program, or OPAL, confirmed the existence of a dark vortex in Neptune’s atmosphere.

Amid growing pressure from the community, the city of Berkeley together with Caltrans and California Highway Patrol cleared the homeless encampment on Gilman Street near Interstate 80 on Thursday.