Mercury-News

Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday to suspend the city’s ties with its Russian sister cities until Russian hostilities against Ukraine cease.

Berkeley resident Reginald Patillo was charged in federal court on Dec. 10 with possession of three handguns allegedly linked to a Memorial Day shooting investigation. 

Eleven inmates at Santa Rita Jail have confirmed cases of COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, as reported by the Mercury News on Wednesday.

Amidst President Donald Trump's travel ban with Europe, 24 students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism have self-quarantined after possible exposure to COVID-19.

On March 8, a group of reporters from the Bay Area News Group, or BANG, held a press conference in which the reporters denounced the business practices of BANG's corporate management, a hedge fund called Alden Global Capital.

Nearly 30 reporters and staff at the East Bay Times and the Mercury News accepted buyouts from parent company Bay Area News Group, or BANG, last week, with more layoffs expected.

Newsroom diversity (in every sense of the word) is paramount not only to quality — fair and thorough sourcing and reporting — but also a sense of belonging.

Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena and creative director Max Harris were arrested Monday morning on 36 counts of alleged manslaughter in relation to the deadly Dec. 2, 2016, Ghost Ship warehouse fire, as first reported by the Mercury News.

The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has not investigated six deaths since 2010, all of which occurred in-police custody.

After former Cal assistant men’s basketball coach Yann Hufnagel submitted more than 900 text messages to UC officials Monday to contest the finding that he had violated UC sexual harassment policies, he submitted a letter of resignation Thursday afternoon, according to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof.