Santa Rosa CA

A two-vehicle collision on State Route 121 just south of Ramal Road in Napa left at least one person with major injuries yesterday, prompting a temporary closure of the highway in both directions. The crash was logged by the California Highway Patrol at 7:25 PM on the northbound side of the highway, and emergency crews

Nearly two weeks after Lake Bay, a commercial fishing boat ran aground, on a Point Reyes beach, crews are preparing for a massive salvage operation complicated by one especially unpleasant problem: tens of tons of rotting squid still trapped onboard. "It's like concrete."

Scanning the shelves at a standard wine shop might make you think California is the only state making wine worth sipping. And while it’s true that Napa Valley and Sonoma County have some of the most famous wineries stateside, the U.S. is home to a wide swath of regions making excellent wine.

There are a suspicious number of entries for Handline restaurant on my credit card statement this summer. They’re all for the same amount: $7.13, the price of a large chocolate-and-vanilla cone from the soft-serve window where I spend far too much time standing. It has become my after-kayaking reward,...

The Santa Rosa home of Frank Mauceri — founder of now-defunct Smog Veil Records, a Chicago-based label for influential underground and punk artists like Dead Boys — is currently listed for sale. Built by Jon Reiter, known for accenting his Wine Country builds with unique architectural elements, the home has three bedro

On August 21, 2025, the Pickett Fire started near a stretch of Pickett Road north of Calistoga. It burned for 17 days across more than 6,800 acres of Napa County’s Howell Mountain wine country. One home and four outbuildings were destroyed. Thousands of residents were evacuated. Dozens of wineries...

It was the summer of 1985 and David Lefkowitz, then a student at Duke University had come to the Bay Area for an internship in a lab at UCSF. His senior year would start in the fall, but – as a pre-med student – he knew he had many more years of schooling to go. His goal was to follow in the footsteps of his Nobel Priz

Santa Rosa, California — a city where the morning fog drapes over vineyards, where the air is perfumed with wildflowers and woodsmoke, where murals bloom on the walls and the streets hum with the footsteps of dreamers, farmhands, artists, and families. Here, the architecture is a patchwork: Victorian homes with gingerb

ROHNERT PARK, CA — “On July 29, 2026, a patrol deputy was dispatched to the Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park for a reported theft. The deputy learned that a lock securing a construction site had been cut and approximately $20,000 worth of copper electrical wire had been stolen. While on scene, the deputy was also

Over the years, longtime San Francisco residents Aunkur and Tina have visited wine country many times, but one trip to Sonoma changed everything, ultimately inspiring them to build a retreat of their own. “During the summer of 2017, we decided to rent a farmhouse in Sonoma for the month of July,” Aunkur recalls. “That