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Editor's Note: The Scanner will periodically publish guest essays from community members on issues of concern. Today's piece was written by Berkeley District 8 Councilman Mark Humbert. It has been…

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake hit Berkeley on Monday evening, the third to shake the city in just 16 hours. The evening quake's epicenter was near Claremont Avenue and Tunnel Road…

The intersection where a driver ran down a man on a bike last week is already set for improvements as one of Berkeley's "high-injury" corridors. The city renamed the crossing…

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattled Berkeley early Monday morning, at least the second quake in the Southside neighborhood in recent weeks. The quake's epicenter was on Dwight Way, near Piedmont…

A Berkeley sex offender is facing new charges this month related to the felony distribution of child sexual abuse material, court papers show. The Alameda County DA's office charged Storea…

On Tuesday morning, many people were concerned when Robert Clear didn't show up for AM drop-off at Emerson Elementary. Clear, known on campus as "Mr. Bob," has been a fixture…

The driver who ran down three Berkeley residents Tuesday morning in the Claremont-Elmwood district chose his victims at random, authorities say. All three people — a 78-year-old man on a…

Update, 12:45 p.m. More details have begun to emerge about a horrific series of events in Berkeley on Tuesday morning, when a driver reportedly ran down three people, including an…

After a months-long court battle, a federal judge has granted the city of Berkeley permission to clean up one side of one block of the longstanding Harrison corridor homeless encampment.…

A draft plan to allow denser development in three of Berkeley's "highest-resource and highest-income" neighborhoods has already met with skepticism in at least some quarters. Now, the city has launched…