The apartment tower planned for Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley was approved despite one man's attempt to block the project.

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

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

Among the hardest-hit institutions in Berkeley, the museum says “our staff is reeling.” A groundbreaking Ohlone science exhibit is among the research projects to lose out.

9 Berkeley nonprofits YMCA of the East Bay: Head Start program serving 166 Berkeley kids is threatened Social Justice Collaborative: Has lost funding for legal work representing migrant children ...

A tipster let us know that Zarri’s Delicatessen, an Albany institution for over 50 years, will close its doors at the end of the month. Home of no-frills, made-to-order deli sandwiches — think salami, ...

Winner of a MacArthur “genius” award for his groundbreaking technologies for the blind community, Joshua Miele’s memoir came out March 4.

The Claremont Resort & Club. Credit: David Corby The Claremont, the 276-room luxury hotel at the foot of the Berkeley Hills, has changed hands for at least the 10th time in its 110-year-history — and ...

The state money will go to fix the failing tide tubes that are primary culprits for the lagoon’s health risks to humans and marine life.

There are no housing projects under construction in downtown Berkeley, while prime spaces cleared out for new development sit vacant.

Berkeley passed a ban to stop landlords from coordinating on rents, but the company targeted by the ordinance says there’s no price-fixing happening and the ban violates its free speech rights.

Cal plans to house 1,000 or more students there. It says it can’t afford to save the 3 historic buildings cherished by preservationists.