Eighth Street

Encampment residents at Harrison and Eighth Street were granted a temporary restraining order against the city of Berkeley on Sept. 5, momentarily preventing the city from clearing the encampment. 

Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín announced that the city of Berkeley would begin providing COVID-19 booster vaccines equipped against the highly infectious omicron variant in an email statement Thursday.

An apartment building in the 2600 block of Etna Street in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood caught fire at 1:50 a.m. Nov. 16, one of several recent fires in the city.

Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, is searching for information about a shooting that occurred on Eighth Street near Channing Way on Tuesday night.

Two Berkeley postal workers tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-July, significantly increasing delays in the city’s post offices.

Somewhere in Berkeley, a mother and daughter are sharing one room with an air mattress. Somewhere else, a single mother lives in a vehicle where she used to live with her son before he was taken away because she was unable to find housing.

The bicyclist involved in a traffic collision in West Berkeley on Wednesday morning is in "critical, but stable" condition, according to Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Officer Byron White.

About 10 p.m. Sunday, officers responded to the area of Eighth Street and Channing Way after receiving multiple calls about gunfire in the area, according to a community alert sent by the Berkeley Police Department on Tuesday.

Berkeley Police Department arrested two suspects Monday on suspicion of identity theft, according to a Nixle alert released Tuesday afternoon.

Berkeley Police Department received reports that suspects in two different vehicles attempted to steal an ATM from a Mobil gas station in West Berkeley early Tuesday morning.