Famed jockeys and horses have thrilled race fans since the 1940s, but the East Bay track is fading down the stretch.
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Heyday books at 50: The page-turning tale of a Berkeley original
Founder Malcolm Margolin wrote, designed, typeset and laid out the first Heyday book from a rented house in Berkeley in 1974. Fifty years later the press is moving beyond its regional focus while remaining grounded in the hippie ethos that inspired its beginnings.
West Berkeley’s Market Hall Foods on 4th announces closing date
Citing customers’ changing habits and increasing costs, the owners plan to close the market May 26 after 28 years in business.
Green Day and Santana recorded at Berkeley’s Fantasy Studios. Tenants won a fight to preserve its former building for arts
The owners of the former studio on 10th Street, where filmmakers have also conceived and produced classic films and groundbreaking documentaries, sought to increase R&D space at the expense of vacant media production suites.
Body recovered at Berkeley Marina Saturday
A dead man in his 50s was found at the water line near the Berkeley Yacht Club Saturday morning, police said.
Hatching chicks, zombie parasites and honeybee births: A Berkeley photographer’s work in the spotlight on Disney+
At WonderLab, his multidisciplinary space in West Berkeley, Anand Varma aims to bridge the gap between photography and traditional science. The National Geographic explorer’s work is the subject of the TV series “Photographer.”
Lanes, sidewalks on San Pablo Ave. to close amid disability access upgrades
The work will happen in phases in Berkeley and Albany. Caltrans said it will put up signs to direct pedestrians and motorists where and when sidewalks and parking will be affected.
3 people were wounded in separate Berkeley shootings this week
One of the victims was a juvenile, police said. Police have made one arrest in the investigations.
Horse racing fans may still have a place to go after closure of Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley
Last week, the California Horse Racing Board allocated 26 dates this fall to the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.
Berkeley stabbing suspect said she doesn’t remember much from day of killing, BPD says
Police said Gabriella Rebecca Riemer “laughed hysterically” when they played her a recording of the 911 call in which she allegedly told dispatchers she had stabbed her mother in self defense.
Berkeley police arrest woman on suspicion of fatally stabbing her mother
Gabriella Rebecca Riemer, 23, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder after police responded to a stabbing inside a University Avenue apartment on Sunday.
Berkeley will buy Ohlone shellmound site, return it to Indigenous land trust
The city will transfer the contested Spenger’s parking lot in West Berkeley to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, making it among the first cities in the country to return land to Indigenous people.