Santa Rosa CA

In the City of Sonoma, minimum wages increase on January 1, 2026, to $18.47/hour for large employers (26+ employees) and $17.38/hour for small employers (25 or fewer employees), exceeding California’s $16.90 state wage, as part of the city’s annual adjustment based on the Consumer Price Index. These rates apply to...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - A person riding an electric scooter died in Santa Rosa on Friday morning after they were struck by an SUV. Santa Rosa Police Department officers were sent just after 8:10 a.m. to the intersection of Santa Rosa Avenue and El Portal Drive on reports of a vehicle striking a pedestrian, according to...

(KRON) — A 61-year-old Rohnert Park resident was struck and killed Friday while riding an e-scooter in Santa Rosa, police said. Officers responded around 8:11 a.m. to reports of a crash with injuries at the intersection of Santa Rosa Avenue and El Portal Drive, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department. When...

Tucked into the hills of Marin County, a striking new residence deftly settles into its surroundings. San Francisco-based architect Andrew Mann designed the 7,000-square-foot, four-bedroom home for a local couple seeking a retreat that felt gracious, welcoming and deeply connected to its woodland setting. The hilltop...

I first met Lyra Kelly when we were both deployed (aka sent out to a disaster response operation) to help people severely affected by the Spring 2025 tornadoes in St. Louis. Well-organized and skilled in the proprietary programs of the American Red Cross, she was the Operations Management Supervisor, responsible for...

(KRON) — An armed felon who successfully outran police during previous attempts to arrest him was tased and arrested by the Santa Rosa Police Department Friday. Officers were patrolling a homeless camp along the Prince Memorial Greenway around 8:10 p.m. when they came across 52-year-old Santa Rosa man Robert...

On the Monday following a fatal suspected shark attack in Monterey County, a surfer at Marin County’s Dillon Beach reported being smacked from below by a shark. Authorities presume the shark was a great white, which left a nose imprint on the surfboard, but the surfer was uninjured. [Chronicle]

Units from the Santa Rosa Fire Department were dispatched to a residential structure fire on Peterson Ln just north of Piner Rd just before 1 am. The first engine arrived on scene in under 4 minutes and found a well-established fire burning in the garage of a 2-story house with the residents out front. The first...

(KRON) — A Petaluma man was arrested for a hate crime on Christmas Eve after they wrote racial slurs and drew a swastika on an SUV parked in a downtown Petaluma parking garage, according to police. That SUV belonged to local coach and former Harlem Globetrotter William Bullard, the San Francisco Chronicle reports....

A man riding a scooter in Santa Rosa was hit and killed while crossing an intersection Friday morning, authorities said.