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A growing number of protest tents were going up on the UC Berkeley campus Tuesday as Cal students joined the growing wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations taking place at schools across the country.

Protests against the Israel-Hamas war are growing on college campuses across the country and here in California, including at UC Berkeley, where students have set up several tents outside Sproul Hall.

A year after Pleasanton security guard Blake Mohs was fatally shot while trying to stop a shoplifter, the two suspected of his killing are admitting to the crime. Velena Jones reports.

The shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy in Idaho is hitting many in the Bay Area hard. 

The Antioch Unified School District superintendent is calling for an investigation into how the district is handling bullying claims. This stems from a story NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit broke last week.

Lawmakers joined PG&E and other energy companies in Richmond Monday to discuss new technologies as well as ways we can conserve, adapt and work to stop future climate change.

Officials continued working Sunday to remove a dead whale found floating in the bay off the shore of the Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda.

A car collision left a 56-year-old pedestrian dead in Hayward Friday night, police said. 

Oakland firefighters extinguished an RV fire that spread to a commercial cannabis cultivation business on Saturday morning. 

Three years after a man died in police custody, the Alameda County DA says three Alameda police officers involved will now face involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of Mario Gonzalez.

Activists are asking a federal judge to stop the transfer of inmates from a women’s prison in Dublin.

Twenty-two-year-old Cecilia Lunaparra, a senior at UC Berkeley, majoring in Urban Studies, has declared victory in a special election for a Berkeley City Council seat. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to her about her win.

Involuntary manslaughter charges will be filed against three Alameda police officers in connection with the 2021 in-custody death of Mario Gonzalez, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said Thursday.