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San Francisco’s AI-wealthy tech elite are fueling a luxury real estate boom in Napa Valley, snapping up turnkey estates like Stanly.

Prosecutors have accused the head of a Wine Country empire of bilking hundreds of investors, by selling fake interests in real estate companies and properties.

A Florida-based equipment rental company agreed to pay roughly $245,000 in civil penalties to resolve accusations that it violated state environmental laws when it failed to fix a pair of broken oil containment systems in a timely manner, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office. Herc Rentals Inc., whi

BottleRock Napa Valley is back for Memorial Day weekend with a sold-out 2026 festival led by Foo Fighters, Lorde and Backstreet Boys.

The item before the Planning Commission is for a Study Session discussion in accordance with SMC 19.52.040(B) (see PC Study Sessions Guidelines). A study session provides an opportunity for Planning Commissioners to identify potential land use issues or concerns with a proposed project. The applicant has provided a nar

Straus Family Creamery, the Petaluma-based organic dairy, has voluntarily yanked select pints and quarts of its Organic Super Premium Ice Cream after discovering possible metal fragments in a small number of production runs. The affected tubs started landing on store shelves on May 4 and were distributed to retailers i

A vegetation fire broke out Saturday morning in the unincorporated Sonoma County area of Geyserville. Crews from Cal Fire's Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit responded to the fire west of Lake Sonoma at about 7:30 a.m., according to Cal Fire. Article continues below this ad. The fire had grown to about 2 acres...

A 21-year-old Petaluma man is behind bars after police say he tried to rob a customer at a Wells Fargo ATM on South McDowell Boulevard on Wednesday, then bolted from the scene before being tracked down a short time later. Officers say the suspect confronted a customer at the machine,...

Ghost guns are still surfacing in Sonoma County traffic stops, search warrants and criminal investigations, quietly undercutting years of work by state and local officials who thought they had choked off the DIY gun pipeline. In Santa Rosa, the county seat and ground zero for most recoveries, privately made firearms re

Highway 29 Media Company, the small Napa Valley nonprofit that swooped in to keep the Yountville Sun and Calistoga Tribune alive, is shutting down and laying off about a dozen newsroom staff. Both weeklies are slated to publish their last issues next Friday, leaving two long-running community institutions without a loc