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Petaluma Police are reminding drivers to leave their pets at home after rescuing a dog from a hot vehicle over the weekend. According to the Petaluma Argus-Courier, officers responded to a call from a concerned community member and safely removed a dog named Benny from a parked car. Inside the...

(KRON) — A mother who was slain in Santa Rosa’s first homicide of 2026 is being remembered for her adventurous spirit, volunteer work helping locals impacted by wildfires, and passion for saving bumblebees, family members said. Joni Brown, 40, of Santa Rosa, was shot to death on June 8, according to police. Her sister

(KRON) — A man in custody since September 2024, who was facing four counts of suspected arson, was found dead inside of his Sonoma County jail cell on Tuesday, the sheriff’s office announced Wednesday. The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said correctional Deputies found the inmate, unresponsive and alone, at 10:15 p.m.

The renowned and iconic vineyards along California’s Central Coast may be the next target of the effects of global warming and wildfire hazards, a new study has shown. Researchers found that many of California’s established wine regions, including parts of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, as well as Sonoma a

A man wanted on an attempted murder warrant out of Santa Rosa was arrested Tuesday after California Highway Patrol officers stopped a vehicle in San Joaquin County, officials said.

Few voices have shaped contemporary bluegrass quite like Laurie Lewis, and the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and fiddler returns to Petaluma for an intimate afternoon concert in the acoustically rich sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma. Joined by her longtime band, Lewis rekindles the close-knit at

Sonoma County has a new health officer in Dr. Mia Shim, who brings more than two decades of public health leadership experience, including helping guide Seattle and King County through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved Shim's appointment Tuesday, replacing Dr. Michael Stacey, who ha

Named Ashokawna—“the water to the east”—by the Southern Pomo. Slavyanka, “slavic woman,” by the Russian Colony. “Saint Ignatius” and “big river” by the Spanish colonists who came after. The river itself remains nameless, and mighty, winding 115 miles to the sea.

The chicken finger chain has been aggressively expanding in the Bay Area.

Vineyard plantings began on the mountainsides west of the town of Sonoma in the 1880s, as early viticultural pioneers found much to like in the well-drained volcanic soils of the Mayacamas range that separates Sonoma Valley from Napa Valley. More than a century later, those same hillsides would become both one of Calif