New Sonoma County Restaurants To Eat at Right Now
Keeping up with Sonoma County’s restaurant scene is a full-time job, and this summer I’ve been racing from Healdsburg and Sebastopol to Sonoma and Santa Rosa to try to keep pace. More than a dozen new restaurants have opened in recent weeks, with more on the way. That’s a lot of new menus to work through. Here’s what’s
Traffic Stop Near Highway 101 and Rohnert Park Expressway Leads to Multiple Felony Charges
ROHNERT PARK, CA — “On September 8, 2026, at approximately 3:11 a.m., a Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Sergeant conducted a traffic stop on a white Nissan sedan for a vehicle code violation. The vehicle stopped near the southbound Highway 101 on-ramp at Rohnert Park Expressway. The...
Petaluma: Crash Shuts Down Southbound U.S. Highway 101
A crash shut down a southbound U.S. Highway 101 connector in Petaluma early Tuesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. The closure was reported at 4:35 a.m. on the freeway's southbound portion near East Washington Street. Article continues below this ad. The CHP did not immediately provide an estimate
Napa wine industry crisis deepens as vineyard values plunge
California’s battered wine industry is spiraling deeper into crisis as vineyard values across wine country plunge, buyers vanish, and experts warn the pain could drag on for years. At an AWG Wine Advisors conference in Santa Rosa on May 21, industry insiders called this downturn one of the toughest...
Man who stole thousands from Healdsburg jewelry store had multiple felony warrants: authorities
(KRON) — Thousands of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from a Healdsburg store on Monday, Aug. 31, according to the Healdsburg Police Department. That day, the suspect burglarized the store and escaped. Police then discovered that the suspect tried to steal from a different jewelry store in Sonoma County. A day late
Legendary Director’s Ranch in Chaos as 5 Injured in Collapse
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc via Getty Imgaes Five people have been injured after scaffolding and display screens collapsed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch. Emergency services were called to Summit Skywalker Ranch in Nicasio, California, on Monday morning to report people being trapped under a stage. The site is separ
Portugal Restaurant Week offers deals in San Jose, SF, Sonoma
Chourico. Bacalhau. Octopus. Orange tort. And maybe all in one meal. For the fourth year, the Consulate of Portugal in San Francisco and the Portuguese Trade and Investment Agency (AICEP) are teaming up to introduce diners to the delights of Portuguese cuisine. Portugal Restaurant Week will run through Sunday, April...
Napa Green Awarded $3 Million Grant to Expand Regenerative Farming
Napa Green has been awarded a $3 million grant through the National Association of Conservation Districts’ Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) program. About $2 million of the total will go directly to local growers. Funds support cover cropping, compost and biochar, no-till farming, rotational grazing and hedgerow p
Napa Potters Fire Up 200 Bowls to Fight Rising Homelessness, Hunger
About 15 Napa County potters and several student artists have spent recent weeks shaping roughly 200 ceramic bowls by hand, each one destined to be filled with soup, stew or another bowl-centric dish and carried home by a $75 ticket holder on Sunday, September 13. The event, Empty Bowls, runs from 1 to 3 p.m. at The We
Healdsburg winery replaces grapevines with thousands of sunflowers as industry struggles
A Sonoma County winery is making an unusual change as California's wine industry faces an oversupply of grapes and shifting consumer tastes. At Chateau Diana Winery in Healdsburg, an acre that once grew Zinfandel grapes is now blooming with more than 3,000 sunflowers.
