The Berkeley Historical Plaque Project has been calling attention to Berkeley’s history since 1997, when it started to place oval plaques on historic sites around the city. In 2012, the group launched ...

BERKELEY — Often, the announcement of an upcoming event merely touches on its significance. Such is the case with a restored topographical map that will be unveiled at the Environmental Education ...

Natural gas pipelines — like the one that erupted in a deadly 2010 blast that killed eight people in San Bruno — run along the margins of West Berkeley, parallel to the Eastshore Freeway. This has ...

Later this year some Berkeley County residents might notice a fluctuation in their cost of flood insurance premiums due to recent changes in the state’s flood maps. The Federal Emergency Management ...

Antique maps drafted by Japanese cartographers are historically valuable and beautiful as art objects, says Yuki Ishimatsu, head of Japanese collections at the University of California at Berkeley’s ...

It was just one of hundreds of maps on sale yesterday at UC Berkeley's McCone Hall, but to Elisabeth Lamoureux, the World War II-era representation of her native France was a chilling symbol of the ...

In Berkeley, mapping out the geography of health care tells another story beyond the gridlines formed by the streets or the zoning codes filed away in City Hall; it is a look into the fissures between ...