Review: Shotgun Players stage new take on mythology in ‘Iphigenia’
If you’re a student of Greek mythology, you may have trouble drawing one-to-one parallels with the title character…
Opinion: Why California’s next El Niño won’t end the state’s water challenges
Every time a major El Niño is forecast, Californians ask the same question: Will this finally end the…
Berkeley church vandalized, contractors attacked with pipe
BERKELEY, Calif. – A man has been arrested and charged with assault and vandalism after police say he…
‘She died by design’: Mothers decry Meta outside courthouse as trial begins
Victoria Hinks tried taking her 16-year-old daughter’s phone away time and again as the San Rafael girl became…
Meta ‘hid the truth’ about harms to children, California says as Oakland trial opens – The Mercury News
California accused Meta on Tuesday of studying “vulnerabilities in teens’ brains” to hook children on Facebook and Instagram,…
Popular luxury spa in historic Bay Area hotel closes after 25 years
article The landmark Claremont Resort & Club in Berkeley, Calif. perched in the East Bay Hills. The resort…
Live results: California House District 14 special election
The Brief Tuesday’s special election will decide the candidate who will finish out former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s term…
East Bay apartment complex is nearly full and starts adding retailers
ALAMEDA — Once the site of a longtime cannery operation, an Alameda apartment complex landed its first retailers…
Man shot while driving in Oakland – The Mercury News
OAKLAND — A 21-year-old man was shot multiple times Monday night as he drove in East Oakland, authorities…
Five arrested, 8.4 pounds of fentanyl seized in East Bay drug investigation
OAKLAND – Five people were arrested and more than 8 pounds of fentanyl were seized last week in…
Meta goes on trial in Oakland over alleged harms to children, with up to $1.4 trillion at stake – The Mercury News
Meta goes on trial this week in Oakland over allegations it built Facebook and Instagram to addict children,…
County sells long-vacant Oakland lot for $10, paving way for affordable housing
As a Castlemont High School student in the 1980s, Carolyn Johnson remembers walking past a vacant lot on…