Santa Rosa CA

Downtown Napa is doing a quiet pivot. The wine tasting rooms that once seemed to occupy every other doorway on First Street are giving way to clothing boutiques, galleries and cafés, as landlords race to keep storefronts filled and foot traffic steady. That retail remix is unfolding alongside a larger commercial...

The California Highway Patrol arrested two drivers on Highway 101 in Sonoma County early Monday morning after they allegedly took part in a street race in which a third driver was filming.

Petaluma City Schools is tightening its belt, and alternative education is taking a noticeable hit. This week, the school board signed off on a plan to cut staff and reorganize independent study and continuation programs in an effort to close a multimillion-dollar budget gap. District leaders insist the alternative...

Somewhere between 2025’s egg shortage and the great butter spike, eggs Benedict went from brunch staple to splurge. Last March, as egg and butter prices climbed amid national shortages, restaurants faced a difficult choice: trim breakfast menus or raise prices. Most opted for the latter. Eggs Benedict, lavish in both...

It’s not COVID-19 or the flu, but a respiratory virus has been hammering Northern California cities including Sacramento and Davis, testing shows. WastewaterSCAN data shows “high concentrations” of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, in Sacramento and Davis, along with San Francisco, Marin, Vallejo, Napa, Novato and...

In 2014, community member Jack Devlin volunteered to help launch the San Rafael Fire Foundation after serving nine years on the city’s Budget Oversight Committee. His experience with city finances helped shape the foundation’s early mission to support the San Rafael Fire Department beyond what city funding could...

The annual Premiere Napa Valley (PNV) wine auction, organized by the Napa Valley Vintners (NVV), raised $3 million Feb. 21 by selling specialized barrel lots assembled by many of the valley’s top winemakers for trade members. The event has become a top Napa event by offering a preview of upcoming vintages. Proceeds...

Written by Peggy Rubens, with editing by Howard Eisenstark. A delegation from the Sonoma Sister City Association traveled to China from October 16-28, 2025, for a twelve-day cultural exchange and diplomatic visit that included attendance at the China-US Sister Cities Conference in Hangzhou. The five-member...

Napa Valley College has opened it’s two weekend (02/27- 03/08) run of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The almost three-hour-long show tells the story of a baker (Gabriel Logan Reyes) and his wife (Lindsay Stark) who must go into the woods to gather the ingredients needed to lift a curse their next-door neighbor,...

The Santa Rosa Police Department leadership and team recently walked through Railroad Square and the Downtown Santa Rosa Plaza, meeting with local business owners and employees. The visits focused on hearing directly from the community about safety, business concerns, and ways to keep the downtown area vibrant and...