The goal of Project Reboot is to help youth “reset their tech habits, reclaim their time and regain their focus.”

Port of Oakland and San Francisco leaders agreed to settle a lawsuit over OAK's name change. So "Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport" it is.

Voter guide: California governor, congressional seats and key local races like Alameda County district attorney are on the ballot.

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

Before class and before dawn, the Army ROTC cadets of the Golden Bears Battalion begin a grueling routine.

At its three most popular campuses, UC agreed to admit more California students and reduce the number of out-of-state students. The state covered the loss of revenue from non-resident students, who pay three times what in-state students pay.

In “Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It,” Annie Leonard and André Carothers explore the role peaceful activism has played.

The popular neighborhood bar has been taken over by new owners who want to build on the loyal following cultivated over a dozen years.

The provost of UC Berkeley. The editor of the Daily Cal. Two professors with sharply divergent views. Watch their lively debate over issues of the First Amendment and academic freedom in the age of Trump at UC Berkeley — a university with a history defined by fights over free speech.

A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

District Attorney Jones Dickson says her office is investigating the former rep and warned victims not to call a hotline set up by her opponent, Pamela Price.

Also: The nonprofit Berkeley Youth Alternatives was paid by the city to create a program to curb teen cannabis use, even though its politically connected subcontractor failed to complete its job.

A petition signed by 90 members of a library staff union called interim director Henry Bankhead “unfit” for the job.

The pair’s identities were not immediately available. Authorities are still looking into how they may have died.

A student fell from a dorm, and another man was found dead near Sproul Hall, police said. No “foul play” is suspected in either death.

In a sprawling complaint, a prosecutor claims the Alameda County DA’s office “extorts” welfare fraud defendants and badly mishandled a conflict of interest.

A Berkeley resident describes the grief of taking down her camellias and Japanese maples — and what she's gained.

Even a poster of Martin Luther King was yanked from Cal's Multicultural Community Center. Student organizations are banned from hosting events.

Voters in four Berkeley districts will elect a City Council representative in November, and two races won’t have an incumbent on the ballot.

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

From the Rubik’s Cube craze to many waves of Dungeons and Dragons fandom, Games of Berkeley has navigated countless fads and passions and built a legacy of table-top togetherness.

The remains were found by crews building a beach volleyball court at Bancroft Way and Fulton Street. Cal is likely to now work with the Confederated Villages of Lisjan.

A former student is suing the district and BPD, saying BUSD’s school resource officer violently arrested him after a therapy session.

Longfellow's relocation was originally slated to last through this year, but Berkeley Unified said more structural problems were found.

It’s sold out, but you can still tune in via Zoom. Here’s a primer on the candidates for Alameda County DA and their priorities.

Warm weather means venomous snakes are more active. Snakebites are uncommon but can be dangerous.

Also: A UCPD officer arrested a student wearing a keffiyeh on suspicion they were involved in protesting the Turning Point USA event. Was the arrest politically biased?

Metal letters spelling out Chávez's name were removed Thursday. During the ongoing renaming process, the building is now known simply as the Student Center.

A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

Berkeley officials said they were tired of dubious attempts to landmark properties that were eyed for new housing. Preservationists disagreed.

Eastbound lanes are scheduled to close from 11 p.m. on April 17 to 6 a.m. on April 20 for planned construction work, with detours in place during the closure.

The Idaho Street shooting, on April 9, is the first time since October 2024 that non-police gunfire has injured anyone in Berkeley.

The city could close a fire station, lay off police and slash hours at pools and community centers if voters don’t pass a tax increase in November. Even if the tax hike passes, Berkeley’s winter homeless shelter and Mobile Crisis Team could still be axed.

Jack Jansen was convicted a decade ago of sexually abusing a 7-year-old child in Berkeley. He is now accused of abusing the victim's sibling.

Berkeley will take up two proposals that would require preservationists to collect more signatures to start the landmarking process.

He co-founded the Breakthrough Communities project in Oakland, directed a Ford Foundation initiative and served on the Berkeley Planning Commission.

In the 1950s, Berkwood Hedge became the city’s first to offer after-school care. In the ’60s, the director was caught up in the Red Scare. And in the ’70s, young Kamala Harris was hit with a rock by a kindergarten classmate, permanently scarring her forehead.

“We have zero. … It was so quick. … My uncle has no clothes. … Where will I pay the same rent?” Dozens displaced by an apartment fire last week fled their homes in West Berkeley in their pajamas. Now they ask what comes next.

Delight, a new smoothie spot, is open on Park Boulevard in Oakland, and Vietnamese restaurant Tay Ho remains open despite attempted burglary.

The synthesized voices are part of a robotic text-to-speech system that's been announcing trains to BART passengers for 26 years.

With a boundless sense of wonder and a bent for service, he taught thousands of students, studied how Indigenous plant uses can advance modern drug discovery and was honored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

A message sent to users Friday said the North Berkeley Senior Center would be closed for more than a week.

“We have zero. … It was so quick. … My uncle has no clothes. … Where will I pay the same rent?” Dozens displaced by an apartment fire last week fled their homes in West Berkeley in their pajamas. Now they ask what comes next.

There's a new Pilates studio in West Berkeley; Cotopaxi has closed on Fourth Street after a ram-raid robbery; Whelan’s, a 125-year-old smoke shop, is reopening on Telegraph Avenue; and there's a new shop selling artisanal goods from Mexico and Guatemala in Thousand Oaks.

Known as "Popeye" on the Berkeley High campus, where was the rare athlete to letter in four sports, he later traveled the country recording over 15,000 names of relatives to add to his family tree.

Also: A naked man with a shotgun was arrested after running into the Tesla shop on Fourth Street.

Other March restaurant closures included a Hawaiian spot and a juice bar.

FOB West, Tita Becca's, Butter's Burgers, Leña, GA.RA, and La Cocinita Nica are some of the East Bay restaurants to recently open.

The fire, which burned two houses, rekindled later in the day but was quickly put out. Residents of a dead-end portion of Olympus Avenue have since been given the code to a gate to evacuate by car.