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Michelle Min and Bryan Walker’s Berkeley-born fashion company grew into a national brand. Walker was in a mental health crisis, and the incident may be a murder-suicide.

Bryn Walker couple found dead in Berkeley Hills: What we know

Headquartered above a downtown tattoo shop, KoBold Metals is boosted by the Trump administration and funded by a who’s who of tech titans.

‘Technofantasy’ or ‘eureka’?: Berkeley’s $3 billion AI mining company

Electric kitchen conversions, an initiative championed by Berkeley, are expensive, but as California weans itself off fossil fuels, these chefs say it’s good for food quality, climate and health.

What East Bay restaurants have learned from swapping gas for electric

As many big performing arts groups close or flounder, Measure Y’s backers say the 12-year tax is the lifeline needed to keep the theater and arts scene afloat.

Berkeley arts groups will get $6M a year if voters approve new parcel tax

The law bars developers of big projects from using California’s “density bonus” law to exempt themselves from local labor mandates.

Newsom signs law prompted by Berkeley housing projects that dodged labor standards

Three longstanding chefs have called Scott's Seafood home for half their lives. With nearly 40 years together, they say it's like going to work with family.

Scott’s, Oakland’s unofficial boardroom, is turning 50. Meet the chefs who have made a million cioppinos

The district says it will take at least three years to end the aftercare program’s waitlist. Staffing and transportation remain problems.

Berkeley after-school program expands by hundreds of kids, but staffing, transport remain a problem

He spent five decades financing, organizing, building, buying and advising the Parker Street Limited Equity Co-op, the Oregon Park Apartments Co-op, Fort Awesome/Cooperative Roots, the Golden Gate Co-housing Community, the Berkeley Vegan House and more.

Remembering Jack Sawyer, who founded co-ops that gave over 100 Berkeley families affordable homes to own

Also: Emeryville's Folkmanis Puppets, which got its start as Furry Folk Puppets in Berkeley, is now 50.

The Wire: First anti-AI protester to end up in jail is a Berkeley resident

Championed by UC scientists, the bond measure scheduled for the March 2028 ballot would help offset federal research cuts by the Trump admin.

$7.5B plan for California science agency free from Trump’s influence will go to voters