SF News Ex-Boyfriend Arrested In Connection With Stabbing of Man and Woman at Berkeley Vista Point It's been confirmed that the prime suspect in an attack on two people parked at a Berkeley hills vista point two Saturdays ago was an ex-boyfriend of one of the victims.
Arts & Entertainment Another Small Bay Area Theater Group, Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Co., Cancels Its Season In what could be a precursor to full closure, Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company announced today that it is "suspending" its 2025-26 season due to financial instability.
SF News Sunday Links: SFUSD Partially Ends Teacher Hiring Freeze, Launches 2025–26 Recruitment Musk's SpaceX site in Texas is now called the city of Starbase, which is already making moves to restrict public access to local beaches; Black Oakland business owners rally to support restaurant Pierre Pierre following a shooting there on Friday; and SFUSD has partially lifted its hiring freeze.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Reptile Shop Finds Rare Two-Headed Snake A pet store in Berkeley that lays claim to the title of oldest reptile shop in the US, the East Bay Vivarium, has been taking care of a California king snake with a rare mutation — and even more rare is that it has survived over six months.
SF News East Bay Media Center Burns In Monday Morning Fire The nonprofit East Bay Media Center on Addison Street in downtown Berkeley was heavily damaged in a fire Monday morning that led to the evacuations of some neighboring apartments.
SF News Parts of Berkeley Might Ban All Plants Within Five Feet of Homes for Wildfire Prevention, Plant Lovers Furious Berkeley is poised to pass a law banning combustible materials being kept within five feet of homes in high wildfire-risk areas, which means people would have to rip out the plants right next to their houses, and many aren’t happy about it.
SF News Watch: Older Woman In Berkeley Gives a Whoopin’ to Pro-Trump Counterprotester Who Tried to Stun-Gun Her The Bay Area’s latest viral video star is a woman who opened a can of whoop-ass on some young Trumper half her age after he tried to stun-gun her at a Berkeley Tesla protest Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment New Falcon Appears on Berkeley Campanile as Longtime Resident Falcons Remain Missing A new falcon made a brief appearance atop the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus on Wednesday, and falcon watchers are hopeful this bird will make a return and perhaps adopt the now abandoned nest.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Watchers Voice Avian Flu Fears After Falcon Annie and Mate Go Missing Annie, the peregrine falcon who has lived atop Berkeley's Campanile Tower for nine years, has been missing from her longtime roost for nearly two months, and falcon watchers fear the worst.
Business & Tech North Berkeley ‘Deathtrap’ That Comes With Lifetime Elderly Tenant Is Pending Sale A North Berkeley home that's in severe disrepair and comes with a lifetime tenant is pending sale by a developer who plans to restore it rather than tear it down.
SF News Thieves Are Obsessed With The Berkeley North Face Outlet Store One of several suspected thieves to target the Berkeley North Face Outlet store is Brezjana Wilson, who was arrested last month after she was allegedly captured on surveillance footage rappelling through a skylight into the store.
SF News Toppled Fire Hydrant Creates Huge Geyser In Downtown Berkeley A ruptured fire hydrant created quite the water show on Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley Monday morning.
SF Politics Meet Adena Ishii, the Political Newcomer Who Will Be the Next Mayor of Berkeley More than two weeks after Election Day, the City of Berkeley has finally tabulated the votes and determined that its new mayor will be former League of Women Voters chapter president Adena Ishii, the city’s first Asian American mayor.
SF News Police Arrest SF Man After Gunfire Incidents Near UC Berkeley, Discover Arsenal In His Home The Berkeley Police Department has arrested a San Francisco man in connection with multiple shooting incidents on October 26 in which no one was reportedly injured. And when they served a warrant at his home, they found a lot of weapons.
Bay Area Sports ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ Coming to Berkeley Saturday for Big Cal Game The Cal Golden Bears will be in the national spotlight Saturday as ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ will be broadcast live from Berkeley for the first time ever, but if you want to get your sign on TV, you better get there by 6 am.
SF News City of Berkeley Approves Deal With BART for New Housing Development at Ashby Station Berkeley's city council this week voted to approve a long-delayed deal to authorize BART to move forward with building hundreds of new housing units on the parking lot property at Ashby Station.
SF Politics Even In Liberal Berkeley, Aggressive Encampment Sweeps Set to Begin A ruling by the Supreme Court allowing cities to crack down on illegal camping without necessarily providing shelter to the unhoused has even brought Berkeley's city council around to approving more unfettered encampment sweeps.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend’s Bizerkeley Food Fest Set to Serve Up ‘Meat Eater-Approved Vegan Food’ The Bay Area’s big Labor Day weekend street fair will be Sunday’s fourth annual Bizerkeley Food Fest, with samples and delicious dishes galore of eats “made by vegans for a meat eater's tastebuds.”
SF News Humpday Headlines: Early Morning Fire Destroys Berkeley Commercial Building Two early morning fires in two days destroy commercial buildings in the East Bay; a man at the center of the BBQ Becky video has died; and SF's Castro Street is set to lose some palm trees.
SF News 'Scholar-Activist' Indicted By Grand Jury for Arsons at UC Berkeley; Arson Attempt at Oakland Federal Building Comes to Light Casey Goonan, the 34-year-old self-described "scholar-activist" who was arrested last month in connection with a series of small arson fires on the UC Berkeley campus that appeared to be Gaza-related acts of protest, has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Arrested for UC Berkeley Arson Incidents That Were Possibly Linked to Pro-Palestinian Protest A 34-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with multiple arson incidents and the firebombing of a campus police vehicle at UC Berkeley, and these may have been acts of protest over the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters.
Bay Area Sports 83-Year-Old Golden Gate Fields Has Run Its Last Race, Closed Permanently on Sunday The Berkeley-Albany horse-racing track Golden Gate Fields, the last full-time horse-race track in Northern California, ran its last race ever on Sunday as the facility is now closed permanently. And no one has any idea what will happen next to those 140 acres.
SF News Housing Moves Forward at People's Park After State Supreme Court Rejects 'People as Pollution' Argument The California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of UC Berkeley and against a neighborhood group in a lawsuit that was testing the boundaries of the state's environmental review laws for new developments.
SF News Number of Homeless In Berkeley Drops 45% In Promising Sign; Oakland's Number Still On the Rise, Though The number of unsheltered homeless people in Berkeley dropped by nearly half in the two years between the biennial point-in-time homeless censuses in 2022 and 2024, according to a preliminary report.
SF News Berkeley Protesters Have Broken Into and Occupied Empty Building In Renewed Pro-Palestine Protest Just after UC Berkeley had successfully cleared the large tent encampment that was protesting the university's military- and Israel-related investments, another renegade group has occupied the school's empty Anna Head Hall, though their anti-semitic graffiti may not be helping their cause.
