Santa Rosa CA

The Sebastopol City Council will meet on March 3 to review options for improving downtown traffic flow. One key proposal is to return Main Street and Petaluma Avenue to two-way traffic as part of the CalTrans Downtown Sustainable Transportation Grant project.

Welcome, Sonoma County parents and explorers! When the search for "best children's museums near me" begins, it's about more than just finding a place to spend an afternoon. It's about discovering environments where your kids can touch, build, create, and let their curiosity run wild. These institutions are designed...

Sonoma County’s job market still hasn’t recovered from the pandemic, and agriculture, the sector many day laborers rely on, is contracting. photo credit: Graton Day Labor Center Day labor centers are reporting an uptick in people looking for work, despite immigration enforcement actions targeting these centers. Karym...

A routine juvenile plea hearing in Marin County turned raw and emotional yesterday, as a 17-year-old driver denied misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charges in last April’s crash that killed four of her friends and shattered the calm of Woodacre. What was supposed to be a straightforward appearance in Marin County...

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. - A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck in the North Bay on Thursday night, according to officials with the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quake that shook at 9:25 p.m. is about 4 miles west of Cobb, California in Lake County. This is an area located roughly 40 miles north of Santa Rosa.

The body of a 57-year-old man who was kidnapped from a Central Valley Sikh temple earlier this month was located approximately 100 miles north in Napa County, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. Atvar Singh, a resident of Tracy where he worked as the temple’s head cook...

Imagine the offbeat in music — the ever-elusive beat between the beat. That’s the concept of “contra tiempo.”. “It’s the part of the music that makes it sound delicious,” says Ana Maria Alvarez, founding artistic director of Contra-Tiempo Activist Dance Theater that emerged from the streets of south and east Los...

A proposed hotel in downtown Petaluma that stoked loud opposition and inspired a local voter referendum to overturn a key city approval is moving forward with a more modest design.

A longtime housekeeper at Chappellet Winery has filed suit against the family-owned Pritchard Hill estate, alleging she was fired after reporting work-related injuries and asking for accommodations. The complaint accuses the winery of disability and race discrimination and questions how Spanish-speaking staff are...

GUERNEVILLE, Calif. - A hillside neighborhood in south Guerneville is hoping they will not be forced to evacuate because of a large house that could crash down on several others or experience a major landslide. Guerneville's Neeley Road and River Lane area is under an evacuation warning due to the risk of a landslide...