Scammers pretend to notice small issues with roofs in passing, then tear out chunks to create crises their victims pay them to fix.

Terrance Davis, praised for his “steady hand” after taking over an embattled Berkeley department, will be deputy city manager in Brentwood.

An exceptionally wet winter in the Bay Area has led to a surge in the sprouting of death caps, deadly lookalikes of edible mushrooms from other parts of the world.

The Jewish Studio Project, co-founded by a Berkeley rabbi whose mother was an art therapist, celebrates its 10th anniversary next month.

Health experts say people used to foraging elsewhere in the world are confusing death caps with edible, visually similar mushrooms found in their home countries, and hospitalizations and deaths are on ...

Jensen also led programs at the Berkeley library and Alta Bates, counseled incarcerated young women through Alameda County Girl’s Home and held librarian roles at the Lawrence Hall of Science and ...

Jensen also led programs at the Berkeley library and Alta Bates, counseled incarcerated young women through Alameda County Girl’s Home and held librarian roles at the Lawrence Hall of Science and ...

Alameda Health System is planning to cut jobs and eliminate health care services. A mandatory public hearing is set for Wednesday, Feb. 25 in Oakland. Credit: Amir Aziz/The Oaklandside A controversial ...

Cafe Santana, an Oakland cafe and roastery, is opening a second location on MacArthur Boulevard. The cafe has already soft opened; grand opening events on February 28 will include live music, a DJ, ...

Psychedelia, Fassbinder, French New Wave and the films of Lucrecia Martel, along with works from Iran and an African film festival transport the viewer at the BAMPFA theater. Sponsored by Berkeley Art ...

Darcy Stanley, a nurse midwife from Kaiser Oakland, on strike at the picket line outside Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Feb. 19, 2026. Credit: Tâm Vũ/KQED A four-week strike by ...

He has a new memoir-writing website, a reality TV show and a new book merging short fiction with fine art photography. Other new Berkeley books: Michael Pollan on consciousness — and a deeply ...