From J. Robert Oppenheimer to Chiura Obata. Alice Waters to Alice Walker. Rita Moreno to the Unabomber. Over 150 major ...

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Triple Rock Brewery, opened in 1986 by brothers John and Reid Martin, has announced it will shut down before the end of the year.

A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond and beyond.

All of our coverage: Learn who’s running for city council, rent board, school board and more. And learn about local ballot measures and how to vote. But if you want to hear directly from the ...

Berkeley's strict rules already cover about 1,400 homes. More lenient state Board of Forestry mandates may soon apply to hundreds more.

Of all the scents that permeate Gladys’ kitchen in Havana on the cusp of 1959, it’s the aroma of revolution that lies thickest. In Eduardo Machado’s spellbinding play The Cook, now running through Oct ...

A period of unprecedented price volatility is reshaping the economics of restaurants and farms. We traced the fallout through a single dish.

Attacks by sea lions are extremely uncommon in the Bay. The incident comes amid a rise in domoic acid poisoning on the ...

This story was produced by Bay Nature, an independent, nonprofit media organization that connects Bay Area residents with nature. El Niño is here, already bringing a storm surge of superlatives: Super ...

He dropped out of law school at USC to build a Subaru race car from the ground up and later worked at the encampment during Occupy Oakland and at a social services organization in Portland.

Editors’ note: This article was originally published Sept. 15 and updated several times Sept. 16. City workers cleared out huge swathes of the longstanding homeless encampment around Eighth and ...