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Honey, the 16-year-old Alpine goat at Tilden Little Farm, has been missing since Thursday. The news has upset farm workers and members of Tilden’s nature education program, who are trying to figure out whether Honey’s disappearance was a prank or something more serious. -more-

Next time you want to park on San Pablo Avenue, make sure you have some change on hand. San Pablo’s new parking meters—which have sparked concern among area merchants—are expected to take effect over the next two months, according to the City of Berkeley Transportation Manager Farid Javandel. -more-

Berkeley city officials Friday named former Albany administrator Daren Fields as the interim director of the city's health department. -more-

Berkeley will become a part of the 2010 Census outreach Monday when the Census Portrait of America Road Tour arrives in the city to encourage residents to participate in the nation's once-a-decade population count. With the third-lowest response rate in Alameda County in the 2000 Census—70 percent—city officials believe Berkeley can do better. The city is currently working with community leaders, minority groups, schools and institutions of higher education to make that happen. -more-

Berkeley police arrested a 16-year-old girl in front of the Shattuck Hotel Wednesday for hitting a boy with a hammer. -more-

Berkeley resident Dmitri Belser wants a curb ramp on every street in the country. That dream may not come true anytime soon, but Belser, who is legally blind, has reason to feel encouraged. -more-

Berkeley is set to lose its public housing, and depending on whom you talk to in the city, that may or may not be such a bad thing. -more-

For thousands of Alameda County residents, New Year’s eve was anything but a party. -more-

Berkeley developer Ali Kashani’s proposed five-story, mixed-use condo project at 1200 Ashby Avenue is up for sale. -more-

A Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School student was sent to Alameda County Juvenile Hall for bringing an unloaded gun to school. -more-

The Bay Area Rapid Transit will be appointing former Berkeley police chief Daschel Butler to lead its police force on a temporary basis. -more-

The families of the three UC Berkeley alums detained in Iran for illegally crossing over the border announced Dec. 27 that they have hired a prominent Iranian lawyer to help bring them home. -more-

Berkeley police arrested 32-year-old Hercules resident Dimitar Popov in connection with a stabbing incident south of the UC Berkeley campus last week. -more-