Santa Rosa CA

The Resilient City Standards were adopted by the City Council in December 2024. They will remain in effect until December 31, 2025, for properties affected by the Tubbs and Nuns fires. These standards apply to neighborhoods including Coffey Park, Fountaingrove, and Hidden Valley. They provide rules for rebuilding and...

These days, Americans are drinking less alcohol. While that may be a good thing from a health perspective, it’s not great news for California grape growers. Industry groups predict that 2025 will be the smallest harvest since the mid-’90s. Per-capita wine consumption is down about 12% since 2019, and for the last few...

Sonoma County’s restaurant scene grew up this year. The arrival of a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Sonoma, along with a wave of high-end French openings, made one thing clear: The region’s dining landscape is becoming more mature, more ambitious and increasingly attractive to top culinary talent. The boom in...

Healdsburg’s efforts to self-manage its housing, utilities and transportation laws have limits. The announcement last week that the DMV approved expansion of Waymo’s authorized service area for autonomous vehicle operations into large areas north of San Francisco, including the counties of Sonoma, Marin and Napa, and...

Leo Dale captured this stunning image of a bobcat with prey at Point Reyes at dusk last January. He was notified in November that he was awarded first place, Youth Division (10 -17 years), in the Nature Photographer of the Year competition offered by the international nature photography organization, Nature Talks.

Lea el artículo en español aquí. Jaime Rojas was 44 the first time he tasted wine made from grapes he grew himself. The wine — a Pinot Noir 2016 — came from Bravo Toro, the small vineyard at his home in Santa Rosa. Nearly 30 years had passed since he first stepped into Napa Valley vineyards as a teenager, pruning and...

The rain was coming down in silver sheets when the first car in our caravan screeched to a stop on a winding Sonoma County road. Before I could pull over behind him, our guide, Steve Conwell, wild-food educator and resident forest storyteller, had already launched himself out of his truck and plunged into the...

Girl in Gangster Assault Case Says Testimony False. One of the girls who was a principal in the gangster assault case in San Francisco just five years ago, Jessie Montgomery, who is now Mrs. W. P. Miller of Spokane, Wash., has written a letter which has been turned over to the state board of prison directors, in...

(KRON) — A man in possession of over a dozen poached red abalone was arrested in Sonoma County, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Wednesday. The suspect, who was not identified by authorities, was among a group of people observed by wildlife officers at Ocean Cove along the Sonoma Coast during...

A high-speed chase involving a dark red pickup truck towing a trailer took place on Highway 12, from Sonoma to Santa Rosa, on Tuesday evening. The vehicle was reportedly speeding at over 100 mph, causing a potentially dangerous situation. The chase began when the pickup failed to stop for a flagger at a construction...