Fire at Reid's Records building in Berkeley causes $300K damage Fire crews arrived to find the Reid's building on fire with heavy black smoke coming from the first floor.
City pledges cleanup of West Berkeley homeless camps Members of the business community are pleading with the city to do more to tackle encampments and problematic behavior associated with them.
Help Alameda County spend $176M of millionaires' money How should Alameda County use millions of dollars from the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) to provide safety net services?
Three 'witches' convicted in unusual Berkeley trial In unorthodox proceedings before a federal judge, the defendants were found guilty of improper use of body parts.
Lost and found: Woman, 82, on being robbed in North Berkeley Nancy Bickel was waiting outside for a friend on a recent morning when two young men pulled over and took her purse. This is her first-person account.
'Our sense of safety has been taken from us': Reflections after a Berkeley 'hot prowl' burglary The March 12 burglary was one of four in the neighborhood on the same night. Two of them were "hot prowl" burglaries where people were home.