Month: March 2026

Berkeley police are looking for two people who discharged a fire extinguisher during a scooter robbery near campus Sunday, authorities report. The robbery happened just before 2:50 p.m. near Dwight…

Berkeley police arrested a man early Saturday morning after getting reports of a shooting during a domestic violence call. It was the fourth non-injury shooting in Berkeley this year. The…

A man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries this week after a fire broke out in his North Berkeley apartment near Solano Avenue, authorities report. Another resident of…

A man was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon in North Berkeley after a passer-by noticed he might need help and asked authorities to check on him. The witness called police just…

The Berkeley mayor's office has just put forward retired city staffer Kathy Lee to run the Police Accountability Board on an interim basis. Lee used to oversee the city's Police…

The ceiling of a two-story building partially collapsed in Berkeley on Thursday morning sending at least one woman to the hospital, authorities report. Shortly before publication time, several other people…

A driver struck a woman who was trying to cross Ashby Avenue on Wednesday night, sending her to the hospital with significant injuries, authorities report. The crash happened shortly after…

A Berkeley employee bought a city ambulance without permission — and management failed to disclose the breach publicly when requesting approval after the fact, a new audit finds. The worker who…

Authorities say they have linked two men and a teenage boy to at least six home repair scam reports in Berkeley in the past month alone. The Scanner broke the…

Berkeley workers have posted a new round of closure notices announcing an end to the city's last large homeless encampment, on Harrison Street. The notice, posted Monday by city staff,…