SF News Deer In Berkeley Are Going Buck Wild While San Francisco has adorable coyotes to contend with, folks in Berkeley are currently experiencing a much quirkier problem with their urban wildlife: violent deer. According to several readers over at Berkeleyside and
SF News Berkeley Mayor Wants His Own Sit-Lie Ordinance Even the hippies in Berkeley want the hippies to stop plopping themselves down all day on Telegraph Avenue! Berkeley mayor Tom Bates is asking the City Council to consider putting a sit-lie ordinance
SF News Berkeley Police Chief Will Have 10 Cops Look For Your Lost iPhone! In January, Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan's son lost his iPhone. We've all been there, down that harrowing and unimaginably terrifying rabbit hole. So, like any nobel law enforcement official, Meehan had a
SF News 'I Want A Marijuana Dispensary Near My Kids' School,' Says Berkeley Mom Like many local medical marijuana dispensaries, the Berkeley Patients Group officially closed its doors last week under pressure from U.S. Attorney General Melinda Haag. For Haag, who's been on a bit of
SF News UC Police Kick Occupiers Off Farm Tract In Albany On Earth Day, a couple of hundred protesters descended on some UC Berkeley-owned property in neighboring Albany and began planting beans, and raspberries. The protesters, along with some neighbors in the area, want
Arts & Entertainment Video: Berkeley Freshman's Rad Automated Dorm Room Now, this is the roommate we always wanted in college. UC Berkeley freshman Derek Low turned his dorm at aesthetically-jarring Unit 2 into something special and magical. Low fashioned his drab room on
SF News Berkeley High Students Face Expulsion For Awesome Computer Hijinks About fifty students at Berkeley High School are facing suspensions and four others are facing expulsion for masterminding an elaborate scam to ditch class. The scam itself wasn't that elaborate — the kids apparently
SF News Family Of Murdered Berkeley Man Still Pissed At Police The sons of murdered Berkeley Hills resident Peter Cukor, who was 67 when he died on February 18 of a bludgeoning with a flower pot at the hands of a mentally ill man,
SF News Berkeley-Based Annie's, Makers Of Delicious Cheddar Bunnies, Debuts IPO The fine folks at Berkeley-based Annie's are enjoying a huge jump after their trading debut this morning. Annie's makes a slew of organic treats, including the superior-to-Pepperidge-Farm-Goldfish (debate amongst yourselves in the comments,
SF News Occupy Cal Protesters Ordered To Stay Away From UC Property Yesterday, over a dozen people charged in connection with last November's rowdy protests on the campus of UC Berkeley received a stay-away order issued by the Alameda County Superior Court. According to Berkeleyside,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters' Cafe Fanny To Shutter After 28 Years After nearly three decades of "Alice Waters' Fanny" jokes, the Chez Panisse restauranteur and her brother-in-law/business partner Jim Maser are shutting down west Berkeley's Café Fanny. According to a senior staff member,
SF News Man Shot, Then Run Over, In East Oakland; Two Triple Shootings in Berkeley A man was shot early Sunday in East Oakland, and then he was run over, just to make sure the job was done. The incident happened about 3 a.m. on the 1000
SF News Berkeley Police Stumped Over First Homicide Of 2012, Seeking Tips Berkeley police are seeking information about the murder of 35-year-old Kenneth Allen Warren of Hercules, who was gunned down Thursday on the 3000 block of Shattuck Avenue. Warren worked at a nearby barbershop,
SF News Fatal Berkeley Shooting Leaves Home "Riddled With Bullet Holes" In Berkeley's first homicide of the year, a man walking to a friend's home was shot multiple times on Shattuck Avenue near Emerson Street. The victim was on his way to watch basketball
SF News Berkeley City Clerk Found Dead Inside Her Home [Updated] Deanna Despain, Berkeley's city clerk, was found dead inside her Oakland home (at on the 4100 block of Lyman Road) on Saturday morning. According to Berkeleyside, who broke the story, "The coroner’s
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wild Turkeys Of Berkeley Mentioned in Morning Links, but too good not to award its own post: Berkeleyside gives us yet another reason to visit Berkeley—our goal in 2012 is to head over there at least
SF News Tiny Overnight Earthquake Fails To Inconvenience Anyone Late last night, around 11 p.m. when everyone but the USGS was asleep, a tiny 2.3-magnitude earthquake struck about a mile northeast of Berkeley. According to Bay City News, "many Berkeley
SF News Berkeley Has Bay Area's Largest Wealth Gap, Say Numbers With all the 99% vs. 1% talk flying around these days, it is important to keep a local perspective on these kinds of things. For today's perspective, the Bay Citizen offers: "In the
SF News Massive Fire Displaces Dozens, Destroys Historic Sequoia Building In Berkeley A huge blaze, which has been described as the largest in the area since the Berkeley/Oakland Hills fire in 1991, burned inside the historic 39-unit Sequoias apartment building at Haste and Telegraph
SF News Occupy Oakland and Occupy Cal to Merge in 'Carnivalesque' Union After Monday morning's Occupy Oakland raid dismantled the encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza, the noted East Bay protesters, now without a headquarters, will merge with Occupy UC Berkeley protesters today. According to The
SF News Video: Police Beat UC Berkeley Students at Occupy Cal Rally [UPDATED] During a budding Occupy Berkeley demonstration Wednesday at the UC Berkeley campus, police charged at a group of protesting students before retreating. As the cops attacked the kids, the group chanted, "Stop beating
SF News Three Female UC Berkeley Students Grabbed, Robbed Berkeley police are looking for three suspects in the mugging and inappropriate touching of three female UC Berkeley students. The incident occurred on Monday night on Oxford Lane when a black SUV approached
SF News 3.6 Earthquake Hits Berkeley Following Thursday's small quake, another slight yet significant earthquake rattled the East Bay at 5:36 this morning, centered in Berkeley. This was the latest tremor to hit the Hayward fault in Berkeley
SF News 3.8 Aftershock Hits Berkeley Another jolting quake hit the Bay Area Thursday night, coming in at 8:16. Did you feel that one, too? This one measured 4.1 3.9 3.8. And it looks like
