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Loni Hancock complicit, silent, on Jerry Brown's effort to gut the California Public Records Act.

As parents and students struggle to keep up with rising college tuition and take on greater burdens of debt, universities are being challenged to justify the ballooning athletic fees they tack on to the bill.

Public Defender Paul Myslin, right, puts his arm aroundYeiner Alberto Perez Garizabalo during his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco, Calif.

We tend to fall into a pizza rut, returning to the same saucy pepperoni palaces whenever the urge for a hot slice -- or exhaustion at the prospect of cooking dinner -- strikes.

Jevon Calland , 21, of Oakland was taken into custody Sunday in connection with the slaying of 34-year-old Zonte Jones , said Officer Jennifer Coats , a Berkeley police spokeswoman.

As the reward for information leading to Emeryville resident Aya Nakano's killer grew to more than $30,000 Tuesday, friends and family said goodbye to a young man with an intense love for basketball and a passion for Motown and soul music.

The state Board of Equalization and Berkeley Patients Group have worked out a compromise that reduces the dispensary's delinquent tax bill from $7.5 million to $49,500.

Power has been restored to nearly 6,000 PG&E customers in North Berkeley after a Tuesday morning outage, the utility reported.

Left to right: Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer and Andy Samberg met in high school in Berkeley, Calif., and formed Lonely Island after college.

Not so very long ago, Berkeley proclaimed itself to be a "City of neighborhoods."

The Supreme Court came to a landmark decision on Thursday ruling that the discovery of gene sequences is not patentable.

BERKELEY, CA and CAMBRIDGE, MA -Energy efficiency promises to cut emissions, reduce dependence on foreign fuel, and mitigate climate change.

The Guardian's James Ball and The Times social media editor Nick Petrie will be among the judges evaluating the data interactive category in the Guardian's annual Student Media Awards It allows audiences to find stories for themselves, gives context to disconnected anecdotes and, according to Tim Berners-Lee, it's the future of journalism.

Gary "Malachi" Scott who was released on parole from San Quentin State Prison June 6 after 15 1/2 years in prison learns to use a cell phone in Berkeley.

A man sitting in his car with a woman at a popular lookout on Grizzly Peak Boulevard was pistol-whipped and robbed on Saturday, authorities said.

"What have you been doing for the past few months?" O'Reilly Factor producer Dan Bank asked the man on the street who had not heard of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack until that moment.

A Lexus being chased early Monday by Contra Costa Sheriff's deputies on Interstate 80 wound up in ice plant and dry grass near a freeway offramp, as did two patrol cars pursuing it, officials said.

People who live in Berkeley, California are certainly used to seeing some strange things on the streets of their city.

Big Oil and Gas donated at least $464,000 and outspent fracking opponents by a 7-1 margin.

He was born June 23, 1925 in Berkeley, California, the son of Joseph Dexter Enas, III and Helen Kathleen Enas.