Year: 2025

The Berkeley Scanner has won a first place California Journalism Award for its 2024 coverage of local traffic safety. The award-winning package featured coverage of Berkeley traffic fatalities as well…

A homeless man who recently attacked a Berkeley vendor on Telegraph Avenue for no reason was arrested Sunday after fighting with police, authorities report. The merchant, a 33-year-old Berkeley man,…

A hit-and-run crash sent three elderly people to Highland Hospital on Friday and closed southbound Adeline Street at the Berkeley-Oakland border. One of the patients, a woman in her 90s,…

After several months of escalating community debate, the Berkeley City Council is poised Tuesday to adopt one of the strictest wildfire response plans in the state. In April, Berkeley officials…

Berkeley police are investigating a serious assault over the weekend that sent a young woman and her boyfriend to Highland Hospital, according to BPD and public records. A community member…

A view from above: Berkeley's 'No Kings' protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Phil Rowntree More than 1,000 people convened on two pedestrian bridges in Berkeley to speak out against…

A community group has asked the Police Accountability Board to investigate an arrest during last week's encampment cleanup on Harrison Street — which a federal judge ultimately blocked, citing due…

An individual was pronounced dead in Berkeley on Friday morning after being hit by a BART train, authorities report. BART said the individual entered the trackway at about 6:30 a.m.…

Editor's Note: The Scanner publishes guest essays from community members on issues of concern. The following statement appears below in full with minor edits. Tomorrow, June 14, 2025, is a…

Berkeley police arrested two men from Richmond after getting a Flock alert about their stolen car Thursday afternoon, authorities report. The men fled from an officer who tried to stop…