SF News Battle Between Berkeley Group and UC Berkeley Over Student Population Size Heads to State Supreme Court Depending on what happens at the California Supreme Court, 3,050 fewer students might get acceptance letters from UC Berkeley this spring, because a Berkeley citizens' group is irritated with the pace of the school's growth.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reportedly Has Plans to Expand Into Next-Door César Space, Forcing César to Close News is arriving out of Berkeley that in addition to its own eventual reopening, Chez Panisse is planning another opening later this year in the next-door bar space that for over two decades has been a beloved tapas restaurant and cocktail spot.
Arts & Entertainment Good News!: Bonded Peregrine Falcon Couple Revives Their Courtship Atop Berkeley Campanile, Following Injury As if they knew it was New Year's Day and almost time to raise another brood of chicks, longtime falcon lovers Annie and Grinnell reunited and were observed on camera performing courtship behavior for the first time since Grinnell's November return to the nest following a fight with a rival.
SF News Two Men Killed On I-80 In Berkeley While Arguing Over Crash Two men who exited their cars to argue about a traffic incident early Sunday morning on I-80 in the East Bay were struck and killed by a passing vehicle, the driver of which was trying to swerve around their stopped cars.
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 Authorities to Resume Search for Missing Runner Philip Kreycik on Saturday The search for missing Berkeley man Philip Kreycik is set to resume Saturday, three weeks after he went missing while on a run in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park.
SF News Still No Trace of Missing Berkeley Runner Philip Kreycik; Detectives Call the Case 'Baffling' Either 37-year-old Philip Kreycik disappeared himself and doesn't want to be found, or he somehow got hurt or incapacitated in a part of an urban park that hasn't yet been searched, and investigators in Pleasanton continue to say they've never had a case nearly this bizarre.
SF News Search For Missing Berkeley Runner In East Bay Canyon Enters Fifth Day A cry for help reported by a couple in the area of Sunol Canyon on Tuesday turned out to be a dead end, as hundreds of volunteers continue to aid in the search for a Berkeley father of two who disappeared while on a run Saturday.
SF News Berkeley Man Charged With Attempted Murder Following Nevada Freeway Shooting, Deadly Crash A 51-year-old Berkeley man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after he was injured in a horrific freeway crash that killed the driver of the car — which followed a freeway shooting in which the injured man is the only suspect.
SF News Kamala Harris' Berkeley Childhood Home Could Become Historic Landmark On Tuesday, Berkeley councilmembers will consider a resolution that would move toward making a sun-washed yellow, two-story duplex on Bancroft Way a historic landmark; the house, in question, was where our current vice president grew up.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Berkeley Moms Catch Teachers' Union Head Taking Daughter to School SF is expected to move to the "Red" tier along with Napa and Santa Clara counties today, a group of Berkeley moms has posted video of the teachers' union president dropping his child off at a private preschool, and Specialty's has reopened... in Mountain View.
Arts & Entertainment Shotgun Players Announces 30th Anniversary Season, Including the Tony-Winning 'Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812' Berkeley's Shotgun Players is alive and well, and they're planning an ambitious 30th anniversary season that kicks off with four shows meant to bridge the transition between streaming-only and in-person theater.
SF News Long a Symbol of Anti-Development Activism, Berkeley's People's Park Becomes Development Site Drilling for soil samples is beginning this week at People's Park in Berkeley, the first step in the process of developing the site into a 16-story student housing project — the culmination of a public process that has seen the park's fiercest protectors all but give up their fight.
SF News Berkeley Could Ban the Sale of Gas-Powered Cars by 2027 Much like the United Kingdom — which, in a bid for zero-emissions, hopes to outlaw the purchase of gas-powered cars by 2030 — Berkeley could ax the selling of cars powered by gasoline, diesel, and natural gas as soon as 2027.
SF News At Least 200 Employees at Golden Gate Fields Have Now Tested Positive for COVID-19 In what's proving to be a hotbed for COVID-19 infections, managers at Golden Gate Fields — the still-closed horse racing track in Albany — have now reported 200-plus employees have tested positive for coronavirus; this figure is double what was initially reported on Friday.
SF News Suspect In Seemingly Random June Killing of UC Berkeley Student Confessed, Says Friend Murder charges were filed in August against a neighborhood resident with a criminal past, and now a key witness has testified that the suspect confessed to the killing in the weeks after it happened.
SF News Man Charged With Hate Crimes for Swastika Painted on Temple Has Sordid Berkeley Past The last thing Jewish people want to see is a swastika, ever. The Nazi symbol is especially unsettling on the front door of a synagogue, but that’s exactly what was found this week at Oakland’s Temple Sinai.
SF News Pregnant 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot In Berkeley Drive-By A 19-year-old mother of a 10-month-old baby, who was carrying her second child, was fatally shot in a brazen drive-by shooting Wednesday while her entire family was in the same car with her.
SF News Missing Berkeley Woman’s Car Found in Humboldt County, But She’s Still Missing 75-year-old Betty Baxter Simmons hasn’t been seen since September 5, but her car was found with a note saying “Tow to Berkeley.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... City Council Passes Ordinance Requiring Healthy Snacks In Grocery Checkout Lanes There may be a pandemic, a looming election nightmare like no other, a worsening climate crisis that made air in the Bay Area unhealthy for weeks on end, and seething tensions over violence by police against Black people, but over at the Berkeley City Council it's business as usual some weeks.
SF News [Update] Bizarre Blowtorch Attack at Berkeley Boba Tea Shop Followed By Knife, Axe Threats An apparently homeless man walked into a boba tea shop in downtown Berkeley and lit some WD-40 on fire in an attempt to torch several students who were waiting in line.
SF News UC Berkeley Reverts To Online-Only Classes After Frat Party Outbreak and a Local COVID-19 Spike "After weeks of developing a very elaborate plan for a hybrid model in the fall, we decided after we had a serious fraternity outbreak, that it was just too risky to teach face to face," said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in a letter to students on Tuesday.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley Approves Removing Cops From Traffic Stops The SF School Board is moving ahead with a distance-learning plan, arsons have been ticking up in the city during the pandemic, and the Berkeley City Council voted last night on a measure to create a new non-police department in charge of traffic stops.
SF News Berkeley May Become the First City in the U.S. to Ban Police From Making Traffic Stops The City of Berkeley, which has often in its history been at the forefront of progressive movements, is considering a proposal that would remove all police from traffic enforcement, and create a new department that would use unarmed personnel to make traffic stops and issue tickets.
SF News Homeless Woman Allegedly Pushes Man Onto BART Tracks In Front of Oncoming Train, And He Narrowly Escapes A woman identified as a transient who had been sleeping on a bench nearby is accused of attempted murder after allegedly shoving a man onto the BART tracks at Downtown Berkeley Station Monday night.
