At its regular meeting Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council passed an item updating the city’s municipal code to make accessory ...

In November 2024, testing ordered by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board revealed high levels of radiation at Albany Bulb, as previously reported by SFGATE. A few miles down the ...

Bayer Pharmaceuticals said it approached the city asking to take over ownership and maintenance of the street.

Katie Nielsen reports on Berkeley giving pharmaceutical company Bayer a stretch of road where a homeless encampment is ...

The estimated 3,000 to 4,000 snow geese that perished in December 2016 in the Berkeley Pit’s toxic water died of both heavy metals and sulfuric acid, according to U.S. Fish ...

Update: A more recent report about the Green Fire puts its area at more than 14,000 acres. Amid hot, dry weather in Northern California, a lightning-sparked fire near Shasta Lake has grown to almost ...

A man was exploring Google Maps when he spotted a strange pit in the middle of a remote area. Curious, he zoomed in and noticed it didn’t look like anything natural. He shared it online, and ...

And finally, he joins a hydrogeologist in Butte, Mont., for a walk around the Berkeley Pit Complex, the largest Superfund site in the country. The PEOPLE App is now available in the Apple App Store!