An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

Despite various efforts over the years, campus and the city of Berkeley are currently not sufficiently prepared to deal with ...

In the hills of Berkeley, Susan Filter and Peter Koch's colorful home is bursting with some 7,000 books and a passion for ...

The Berkeley fire chief says the images we're seeing out of Southern California are a grim reminder of what can happen locally.

Thornburg Village, also known as the “Normandy Village,” is like finding a unicorn in your backyard – unexpected, magical, ...

Nestled in the hills of Berkeley, California, Thornburg Village is the kind of place that makes you wonder if you’ve ...

As a young woman, Doryce attended UC Berkeley along with her future husband, Herbert Hills Jr. The couple wed ... of the McCloud River in Northern California. Doryce loved the rugged mountains ...

Stephens, the Berkeley professor, said the Palisades Fire reminded him of one of Northern California’s worst wildfires, the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire. That fire, which started in late October ...

Jae C. Hong/AP But these wildfires are so severe that they have penetrated into more urban areas, Scott Stephens, professor of fire science at the University of California, Berkeley, told ABC News.

In any case, it’s hard to see how greater density in the Berkeley hills, with the area’s narrow ... The appeal is inane. California state law requires cities to balance their budgets; a city’s ...