Month: February 2026

The Berkeley City Council voted Monday in closed session to dismiss Hansel Aguilar, the city's beleaguered director of police accountability. Council members voted eight in favor, with one person absent,…

A man who gave a shop clerk a concussion when he attacked her during a robbery last week tried to break into a woman's home the next day, authorities report.…

A criminal case centered on a heated conflict that made national headlines last year, between a Trump supporter and an older woman at a Berkeley protest, is now in the…

Two men charged with killing a youth pastor in Berkeley in 2022 were sentenced to prison Thursday after seeing the murder case dropped to manslaughter in the lead-up to trial.…

UC Berkeley police have made an arrest in a shooting investigation — with robbery and sex crime allegations — in the Lawrence Hall of Science parking lot in January. The incident…

Update, 6:45 p.m. Neighbors of an older Berkeley woman who died after a fire broke out in her duplex Wednesday said they had been trying in vain to get her…

An individual with a knife tried to jump over the counter at a Berkeley business during a robbery Monday night, police report. The robbery happened shortly before 9:20 p.m. in…

A Berkeley Hope Center resident stole several items from an Uber driver Monday when the driver tried to return a lost phone to the suspect's girlfriend, according to court papers.…

A man in his 60s was rushed to Highland Hospital on Saturday night after a driver struck him in a crosswalk at one of Berkeley's busiest intersections, according to police…