Father and son Hossein and Amir Razavi took over the Middle East Market a decade ago, and recently expanded to open an ...

Alejandra Armstrong's work at Cityside helps Berkeleyside, The Oaklandside, Richmondside and East Bay Nosh reach more people.

Your guide to Berkeley, Oakland and Richmond cafes serving ceremonial-grade tea, matcha lattes and green desserts, despite a global shortage.

Berkeley police will soon encrypt all its radio communications, in part, they say, to protect officers responding to emergencies and victims of violent and other crimes. The City Council signed off on ...

More than 82,000 people in Alameda County get their health insurance through Covered California. But when open enrollment begins on Nov. 1, they’ll be facing steep rate hikes. “We are in a health care ...

According to three eyewitnesses who spoke to us and photographs from three photographers who were on the scene, a few CBP agents got out of their vehicles when they got stalled by the crowd. Other ...

A Berkeley police officer speaks last week with Robert Piraino Sr., who lived in an encampment on a portion of a West Berkeley street the city gave to Bayer. The encampment was cleared early Tuesday.

A federal agent pushes a protester at the entrance to Coast Guard Island last Thursday. With federal immigration agencies sending operatives into largely Democrat-controlled cities like Chicago, ...

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Berkeley High School teacher Hasmig Minassian has already instituted a cellphone ban, requiring her students to place their devices in pouches each class period. Berkeley Unified is currently working ...

A radio in a police cruiser. The Berkeley City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to silence all scanner traffic to the public. Credit: AP/Dave Collins For decades, the Berkeley Police Department’s ...

Starting Mon., Oct. 27, 2025, bicyclists will only be allowed to use the bike-ped path from 2 p.m. Thursdays to 11 p.m. Sundays. There will be a bicycle shuttle service during other times of the week.