Santa Rosa CA

(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.

After years of delay dating back to 2016, Marin Municipal Water District’s board has finally greenlit a major fix to one of the county’s oldest water lifelines. This month the board approved a plan to replace two aging pipeline crossings over San Geronimo Creek, clearing the way to shore up the North Marin Line that...

The Valley Rock Foundation in Yountville is being forced to shut down and give away roughly $10 million after a state investigation concluded the nonprofit mishandled charitable assets, according to the California attorney general. Under a legal settlement, the organization, formerly known as the Edward A. Keith...