Katie Dowd is the SFGATE managing editor. She started her career at SFGATE in 2011 shortly after graduating from UC Berkeley. She was born and raised in the Bay Area.

The catch? You have to zap your eyes with laser pulses to see it. Five scientists at the University of Berkeley used laser technology to selectively activate cells in their retinas, to push their ...

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCSC) - The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office has identified the woman killed in a car crash Friday evening. Berkeley County Coroner Darnell Hartwell said 49-year-old Glynis ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — One person is dead and another injured after a collision Berkeley County Friday evening, according to Lance Cpl. Brittany Glover with the South Carolina Highway ...

In its regional debut at Berkeley Rep in a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse, where it made its world premiere in 2022, this documentary theater gem, a 2024 Pulitzer finalist, unearths bloody ...

About 37 percent of voters support arresting homeless people if they refuse to accept shelter, according to a poll from POLITICO and UC Berkeley’s Citrin Center that surveyed registered voters ...

Students, faculty and community members gathered in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus to support international students and protest threats by the Trump administration to cut federal ...

In the greater Bay Area, rallies protesting federal funding cuts and more took place at Stanford University, California State University — East Bay, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley and San Jose State ...

About 900 Berkeley homeowners will have to clear a five-foot zone of flammable materials from around their houses, if the city’s council next month upholds their unanimous vote this week to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A University of California Berkeley student is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for stripping away her ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Forestry Commission says that a 36-acre woods fire in Berkeley County is now 100% contained. The fire was off U.S. Highway 176 near the North Creek ...

UPDATE: Officials say the brush fire is 100% contained; however, smoke will likely be present in the area through the evening and into the morning. Roughly 25 firefighters fought the fire, and SC ...