The Latest Breaking News from UC Berkeley

A 39-year-old student was charged earlier this week with two counts of making criminal threats to university staff at the University of California, Berkeley.

College students squeezed by a massive housing shortage and rising rents are living in motels, commuting long distances or sleeping in their cars

Authorities say there is ‘NOT an active shooter’ at the university near San Francisco

LOS ANGELES — After months of suspense over their college acceptance decisions, the seniors at Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles were much in need of a cathartic event: a college rejection party.

Six years after meeting as students at UC Berkeley, Nadine Levyfield and Charlie Marshak were excited to reconnect romantically in Los Angeles as professionals — Marshak as a data scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge and Levyfield as a career services technician at Glendale Community College.

In a low-light Culver City, California control room, Lily Shaw is getting her pilot mood on.

LOS ANGELES — The landmark 1970 law for preserving California’s beauty has a long history of backfiring.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new law to overturn a recent court ruling that would have reduced enrollment at the University of California, Berkeley

LOS ANGELES — California lawmakers passed a bill Monday that would rescue UC Berkeley from a court-ordered enrollment freeze and steep admission cuts and allow the university to resume plans to enroll more than 5,000 first-year California students.

California lawmakers are fast-tracking a proposal that could allow the University of California, Berkeley, to admit as many students as it had planned to for the fall semester despite a recent judicial freeze on enrollment

LOS ANGELES — California legislators are fast-tracking a rescue effort to help the University of California, Berkeley avoid slashing its in-person fall class by more than 2,600 students to meet a court-ordered enrollment freeze, just as the university prepares to release admission decisions this month.