The full U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco overruled previous rulings today and said that Carol Sachs, a Berkeley woman whose legs were crushed by a train in Austria, can sue the Austrian state railroad in the United States.
Part of Berkeley's industrial zone would become commercial under a proposal before the City Council for a new Whole Foods Market on Gilman Street.
Some of the items this past week involving East Bay legislators in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento
Here are tips to keep your exposed water pipes from freezing – or to unfreeze them – when temperatures drop tonight and through the weekend, courtesy of the East Bay's water agency, the East Bay Municipal Utility District.
Facing a choice of two alternative student-heavy districts in its once-a-decade redrawing of council districts, a split Berkeley City Council Tuesday night opted for one with 86 percent of college-age residents over one with 90 percent.
An electrical short is the reason emergency brakes suddenly activated and stranded a BART train in the Berkeley hills tunnel for more than an hour this morning. Nine passengers were taken to hospitals after breathing brake dust.
Nine BART passengers were sent to hospitals this morning following the brake-malfunction breakdown of an airport-bound train that stopped between the Orinda and Rockridge stations.
The two largest BART unions filed suit against the transit agency Tuesday over a disputed contract clause that the BART board has rejected. BART responded that the clause was a mistake that shouldn't have been in the contract.
The 85-year-old UC Berkeley grad and former Berkeley teacher detained by North Korea, Merrill Newman, secretly trained anti-Communist guerrillas to fight behind enemy lines in the Korean War, according to news reports.
It's the fourth alert this week, triggered by a large volume of particulates in the air caused by relatively cool, windless weather.
It's not a Spare the Air day, but officials request that people refrain from using fireplaces and wood stoves on Thanksgiving Day.
BART will run longer trains on Wednesday – the heavy travel day before Thanksgiving – and the Black Friday shopping day as well as on Sunday, when travelers return home. Thanksgiving Day will see a Sunday schedule.
The 85-year-old Palo Alto resident who has been detained in North Korea, Merrill Newman, is UC Berkeley alum who taught at high schools in Berkeley and Livermore.
A Spare the Air alert means it's illegal to burn wood, firelogs, pellets or other solid fuels in your fireplace, woodstove or other wood-burning device.
The City of Albany's new temporary homeless shelter for those whom the city plans to evict from the Albany Bulb didn't seem to be attracting clients when Patch paid a visit during the dinner hour tonight, the facility's opening night.
Some of the items involving East Bay legislators in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
A key approval vote for a major UC Berkeley development proposal – for a Sprouts Farmers Market and senior housing complex next to University Village in Albany – was postponed Wednesday by the Albany planning commission.
The BART contract agreement that ended the recent strike could unravel because of a contract provision on paid family leave that BART management says was mistakenly included.
A major UC Berkeley commercial development proposal for a Sprouts Farmers Market and 175 units of senior housing next to University Village in Albany faces key votes by the planning commission Wednesday on the parcel map and design.
Berkeley City Councilman Jesse Arreguin is asking the City Council on Tuesday night to put more teeth, including city enforcement with fines, in the city’s pending tobacco-free ordinance for multi-unit housing.
A federal judge this afternoon refused to block the City of Albany's plan to evict the longstanding homeless encampments on the Albany Bulb. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer came in response to a suit filed Nov. 13.
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Some of the items this past week in Washington and Sacramento involving East Bay legislators
Work on completing the new fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel will likely cause delays in the evenings and mornings due to lane and ramp closures over the next several days.
A lawsuit filed in federal court against the City of Albany on Wednesday by 10 Albany Bulb residents and the nonprofit Albany Housing Advocates asks the court to block the city's imminent eviction of the longstanding encampments on the Bulb.
Caltrans will be doing fire drills and testing on the Veterans Day holiday at the tunnel
A recent report from Washington lays out damage done by last month’s government shutdown.
Some of the action this past week in Washington and Sacramento involving East Bay legislators
In Berkeley's latest effort to create "just right" parking availability under its "goBerkeley" transportation reform, the city will begin offering one hour of free parking at the city-operated Telegraph Channing garage.
The two BART unions that staged short strikes in July and October over contract negotiations have approved the proposed new contracts, BART officials announced. The BART board is expected to vote on the agreement later this month.
Some of the activities that happened this week involving East Bay legislators in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
The Sierras Rim Fire that started Aug. 17 and burned 257,314 acres and destroyed Berkeley's Camp Tuolumne was finally contained this week, as Berkeley officials clean up the Tuolumne site and look for temporary replacement sites.
Some of the activity this past week from Washington, D.C., and Sacramento involving East Bay legislators
The BART board of directors agreed today, Thursday, to permanently allow bikes on trains all day long, except on trains that are crowded. Bicycling advocates hailed the board's unanimous vote as a momentous step.
An Alameda County Superior Court judge today, Wednesday, approved the request from Gov. Jerry Brown and AC Transit management for a cooling-off period to avert a threatened strike for 60 days.
California Gov. Jerry Brown today, Tuesday, filed a request for court-ordered 60-day "cooling off" period to avert a threatened AC Transit strike. The move follows Monday hearing by a state panel into the transit agency's contract dispute.