The two people, who city officials said were breeding rats while living in an RV, represent the first known human cases of leptospirosis in Berkeley in a decade.

The City Council approved the extended meter hours and increased parking ticket fines, looking to bring in a projected $5 million more per year.

The position leading the district’s groundbreaking climate literacy program is on the chopping block as BUSD faces a budget deficit and talk of climate change disappears from state and national politics.

Nearly a year after laying off its entire staff and going dark, the nonprofit Berkeley theater that was housed downtown says it will return for a 2027-28 season.

All animals were evacuated and the facility will be closed for weeks, if not months, officials said. Berkeley police have opened an arson investigation.

Berkeley was included in a Red Flag Warning for dangerous fire weather, but a meteorologist said our side of the hills was not likely to see those conditions.

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

The congregation broke ground in recognizing same-sex marriage within Conservative Jewry, and Kelman was instrumental in the creation of the nation's first environmentally focused Jewish cemetery, in Marin County.

ThriftyCat’s owner says he wouldn’t have signed a lease had he known he couldn't use the parking lot for retail like the last tenant did. The city says that tenant just “never got caught.”

The fire burned through the pet supply donation area under the stairs. No animals appear to have been injured.

Sanchez, 37, who previously worked in admissions at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and battled breast cancer, grew up in Connecticut before moving to Berkeley in 2018.

The Landmarks Commission narrowly voted down an application for the historic designation, brought by opponents of the plan to zone the neighborhood for more housing.

The money earmarked from a climate bond to help buy Golden Gate Fields for a new park could come at the expense of other projects, critics say.

Also: Looking Glass Photo moves again and Black Sheep Theater Company, a new youth musical theater, opens.

The killing wasn’t discovered for days, and Damarcus David Jones admitted to taking extensive measures to conceal it, police said.

Critics called the campaign a “farce” aimed at thwarting an effort underway to add housing along the wealthy neighborhood’s shopping strip.

Other events include art studios across the East Bay opening their doors, the play "A Few Good Men" and Pride in the Park.

Damarcus David Jones, 28, was booked Tuesday. A building manager discovered Jones’s girlfriend dead in her apartment on California Street. She hasn’t yet been named publicly.

The city hopes fresh paint, new signs and other changes will improve safety along Claremont and Marin avenues, and at other intersections where pedestrians were killed in recent years.

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

In the June 2 primary, appointed DA Ursula Jones Dickson faces a challenge from former DA Pamela Price and Gopal Krishan. State and federal races are also on the ballot. Live results at 8 p.m.

Forthright, fearless, socially conscious and a committed Jewish humanist, she was among the first dancers in George Balanchine's New York City Ballet and a longtime activist in the circle of Barbara Dane, Malvina Reynolds and Jessica Mitford.

As East Bay communities raise concerns about civil liberties and immigration enforcement, the license plate camera company is seeking support from its customers — law enforcement officers.

The Bay Area is generating enormous wealth and growing impossibly unaffordable. Mark Wogulis and Melanie Bowden recently sold their Berkeley house after a layoff and moved to Santa Fe.

Police provided few details on the killing or the victim, a woman in her 30s, saying “the investigation is still in its preliminary stages.”

The National Science Foundation cited funding from U.S. allies like Australia and Switzerland in suspending millions of dollars of research, including studies on autonomous driving and the skin color of poison frogs.

A man who witnessed the shooting at the homeless shelter known as Harrison House testified the dispute started with an argument over music.

The snowpack melted much earlier than normal in the Sierra Nevada watershed that supplies Berkeley and much of the East Bay.

The number of unhoused people in Berkeley ticked upward in this year's count. Local officials called it a "fluctuation" and said they want to see more data.

Other events include a lecture on the state of journalism, a free furniture exchange program and an artist meetup at the UC Botanical Garden.