Arts & Entertainment Temple of Wings, the Getty Estate In the Berkeley Hills, Sells for $5.85 Million The grand Berkeley Hills estate owned by Ann and Gordon Getty since 1994, dubbed the Temple of Wings, was listed for $5 million in August and just sold for $5.85 million.
SF News Suspect In Berkeley Hills Matricide Has Long Criminal Past, History of Mental Illness The 36-year-old man who was arrested for the fatal stabbing of his mother on Saturday, as well as stabbings that injured two others, has a long and troubled past with law enforcement, and he appears to have begun having psychiatric problems around age 18.
SF News Woman Fatally Stabbed In Berkeley Hills Home, Reportedly By Her Son A 60-year-old woman was stabbed in an apparent family conflict at a Berkeley hills home on Saturday, and two other people were injured in the attack, which police say was not random.
Arts & Entertainment Kooky, Highly Specific, Unfinished House In the Berkeley Hills Asks $1.19 Million One man's dream house that he set out to build in the early 1970s and never completed before his death last year has hit the market for the first time, and it's a very unique Berkeley hills property to say the least.
SF News Expensively Shored-Up Berkeley Hillside Once Again Giving Way; 14 Homes Red-Tagged Due to Another Landslide A hillside in the Claremont Hills area of the Oakland/Berkeley Hills that has given way in wet winters before — and that has been shored up at great expense by at least two property owners over the last two decades — gave way to a significant landslide again last week.
SF News Mudslide Prompts Evacuation Warnings In Berkeley Hills, Edge of UC Campus A mudslide Monday morning prompted a warning to avoid an area near the Clark Kerr Campus at UC Berkeley, and an evacuation warning was issued for residents near a second mudslide near Tilden Park.
SF News Berkeley Hills Residents Being Told to Evacuate Whenever Fire Danger Rises The city of Berkeley and the Berkeley Fire Department are taking a new and aggressive step in addressing fire season, and residents of the Berkeley hills — and by extension, the Oakland hills — are being told they should preemptively evacuate under certain circumstances.
SF News Berkeley Police Chief Taking A Lot Of Flack Over Cukor Murder The fallout from the sad and unnecessary murder of 67-year-old Peter Cukor last month, outside his home in the Berkeley hills, continues to rain down on Berkeley police chief Michael Meehan. And now
SF News Occupy Oakland Distracted Police From Saving Berkeley Murder Victim, Claim Police We know this may just sound like the Chron hating on Occupy again, but police dispatch tapes from Berkeley on February 18 the evening that 67-year-old Peter Cukor was (allegedly) bludgeoned to death
SF News Man Beaten To Death Outside Berkeley Hills Home In an "insulated" neighborhood near Tilden Park in the Berkeley hills, a local man was left dead Saturday night after confronting a trespasser with a history of mental illness. The victim, 67-year-old Peter
SF News Berkeley Hills Fire Damages Two Homes, Fire Truck Two multi-million-dollar homes in the Berkeley hills sustained heavy damage last night as a fire spread quickly from one to the other. The homes are on Miller Avenue near Keeler Avenue and Grizzly
misc Blocker: 1400 Montgomery Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 7: Montgomery St.
SF News Is the IT Guy Stoned or Something? Berkeley may have a reputation for cannabis tolerance, but that hasn't penetrated to the city's public education establishment. A few days ago, Cal NORML received a call from a Berkeley High School student
