A study finds the number of college students taking out private student loans has risen sharply in recent years.

Wild weather produced a lighter wine harvest in California last year, which analysts say could provide breathing room for an industry coping with the budget-tightening effects of recession.

In obituaries Nov. 17 and Nov. 18 for basketball coach Pete Newell, The Associated Press misstated the number of grandchildren among his his survivors. There are five grandchildren, rather than four, and a great-grandchild.

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in the Sunday funnies and the hearts of “Opus” fans.

The city of Berkeley has made a big step toward starting a pioneering program to provide city-backed loans to homeowners who install rooftop solar-electric systems.

Four tree-sitters who ended their occupation of a University of California at Berkeley oak grove this week have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges.

A tree-sitting protest at the University of California, Berkeley, was whittled to one tree after arborists chopped down most of the disputed grove to clear land for a new sports center.

The University of California, Berkeley has begun cutting down trees at the center of a dispute over its plans to clear the area to make way for a new sports center.

A judge has lifted an order blocking the University of California from building a sports center that has been the focus of an impassioned tree-sitting protest.

A planned sports center at the University of California at Berkeley that ignited a tree-sitting protest moved a step closer to reality when a judge gave campus officials the go-ahead to build.Ruling late Tuesday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge...