Santa Rosa CA

Police arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of setting a grass fire near a Santa Rosa middle school on Sunday night. The fire was discovered after officers were called about 8:05 p.m. to the 1100 block of Fenway Drive to a report that someone was knocking on a resident's front door.

Summer, it seems, is still with us. It’s not all that uncommon to see October high temperatures across the Central Valley in the 90s — any warmer than average pattern will do that. What is less common is just how much hotter these temperatures are and how long they have been sticking around. After rising into the 90s l

Enterovirus D68 is circulating in the Bay Area yet again.

For more than a decade, a 127-acre hilltop former seminary campus in the Strawberry area near Mill Valley has been the star of an ongoing redevelopment fight. In 2015, the land was proposed as a new campus for The Branson School, where I am a student in my senior year. After two years of review, the proposal was eventu

Napa’s new Estate House is the capstone on the Mondavi family’s more than two decades of building a new wine legacy at Continuum Estate.

As local governments in California breathe a sigh of relief following the governor’s veto of a bill that would have enhanced retirement benefits for police and firefighters — potentially raising annual taxpayer pension costs by millions of dollars — labor groups are taking stock of their loss and preparing to mount a n

If the City of Sonoma instituted a vacancy tax, it could do three things: motivate owners of long‑term vacant homes to put them back into use; generate revenue for essential city services; and – most importantly – restore the year‑round civic participation that keeps neighborhoods strong by bringing people back into th

Firefighters and paramedics treated eight patients and transported them to area hospitals Saturday evening after the crash on Highway 29 near St. Helena.

At its next meeting on October 7, 2026, Sonoma’s City Council will consider allocating $1.25 million from its Affordable Housing Trust Fund as an incentive to to develop construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, or preservation of affordable housing within the city. What follows is the staff report on the agenda item.

The five-day festival runs Oct. 8-12 in Fort Bragg and Mendocino. It celebrates the coast's bull kelp forests, most of them lost since 2014, and the people trying to bring them back.