Cassandra Vogel

UC Berkeley's Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics has an extended deadline to make recommendations on how to reshape athletic programs, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced in a campuswide email Friday.

At its Tuesday meeting, City Council approved plans for Berkeley Police Department to purchase an armored van, which BPD says will help enhance the safety of officers and civilians — although the decision has caused concerns among some community members.

Berkeley Police Department is investigating a robbery that occurred at a Wells Fargo bank on Thursday afternoon, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

The Berkeley campus was turbulent in 2016, to say the least. Here are the Daily Cal news staff's picks for the top five moments that defined campus news this year.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has not found any evidence that arson was the cause of the Oakland fire, said Jill Snyder, the special agent in charge of the San Francisco division, at a press conference Wednesday.

Vanessa Plotkin, a UC Berkeley student, and Griffin Madden, a UC Berkeley alumnus, have been identified as victims in the Oakland fire that occurred Friday night, according to a press release issued by the city of Oakland on Tuesday night.

At least 33 people were killed in an Oakland warehouse fire Friday night and dozens are still missing, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said at an afternoon press conference Sunday.

A large structure fire at a warehouse concert in Oakland on Friday night has left at least nine dead, with dozens more reported missing — among them three UC Berkeley students.

A group of UC Berkeley students marched from campus to Downtown Berkeley on Thursday morning calling for banks to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Valeska Castaneda can distinctly remember being pulled out of her preschool classroom after learning her mother was deported.