The Berkeley City Council is mandating fireproofing homes in high-risk areas, and the legislation is starting to get some pushback in the hills. It comes a year after the LA fires devastated ...

Those white picket fences are most often associated with the American Dream. Add an old, hearty tree and life seems, well, complete. But now the Berkeley Hills area is undergoing a transformation of ...

Berkeley City Council approved new wildfire prevention rules, specifically for parts of the Berkeley Hills. The ordinance would require a five-foot buffer around homes, meaning no in-ground vegetation ...

The worst impacts have been staved off for now, but CERT and the city's new Street Trauma Prevention program are still at ...

At the Berkeley City Council’s regular meeting Tuesday, City Manager Paul Buddenhagen postponed the deliberation and potential passage of two items relating to fire safety to a June 17 regular meeting ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- Taking a drive up to Tilden Regional Park on the Eastern most edge of Berkeley, it's hard to find a home that isn't surrounded by lush grass, bushes, flowers and trees. But ...