Fifth Street

Gilman Street will be closed through late May as Caltrans begins construction on the Gilman Street interchange at Interstate 80.

Talks surrounding the affirmation of a Zoning Adjustments Board, or ZAB, approval of an administrative use permit for a project on 1444 Fifth St. and a proposed moratorium of the "Shared Sidewalk" policy dominated discussion at Berkeley City Council’s regular meeting May 28.

Berkeley Police Department officers have notified the public to avoid an area in West Berkeley due to the presence of an armed person, according in a Nixle alert released Thursday at approximately 6:19 p.m.

At CoRo, members can learn with and use CoRo’s various pieces of roasting and packaging equipment to run their own roasting businesses.

A fire broke out at the 1600 block of Fifth Street inside a building where Cafe Fanny Granola is manufactured and packaged early Thursday morning.

Human remains, possibly those of an Ohlone Indian, were uncovered last month at a Fourth Street construction site — right outside the boundaries of a city-designated historic landmark, the West Berkeley Shellmound.