Santa Rosa CA

Highways. Trails. Roads. Ferry terminals. Bike paths. Train lines. Much of Marin County’s spiderweb of coastal and bayside transit options is at risk of inundation from rising sea levels in the coming decades, according to a recent study identifying the climate vulnerabilities of its built infrastructure. The county,...

Look both ways before crossing the road, kids—especially if Marin County defunds your local crossing guard. Due to rising costs, the Transportation Authority of Marin (TAM) is considering scaling back its crossing guard program. The program currently funds 96 guards at a total cost of $2.4 million. A TAM executive...

Every summer for the past 20 years, biologists with Sonoma Water don their waders and boots, not to catch fish but to count them. Seven days a week, at five different put-ins, Sonoma Water biologists Miguel O’Huerta and Sanoe Deaver wade into the cold Russian River to scoop small fish from traps laid in late spring....

For those who haven’t been to the Sonoma County Fair, The Hall is in fact a hanger, measuring a massive 180 feet by 350 feet by 35 feet. The Hall was built during the war to house the mighty Boeing B-17 “flying fortress”—that heavily armored long-range bomber, whose distant thunder meant lightning to the cities and...

Drivers in Marin County might want to plan some detours this summer as the Department of Public Works (DPW) kicks off pavement preservation on 25 miles of county-maintained roads, which make up about 6% of the 421-mile network. Starting tomorrow, the five-month project will work towards increasing the lifespan of...

A tragic sequence of events occurred on Lakeville Highway in Petaluma last Saturday, culminating in a fatal car crash following a high-speed pursuit by local police. The deceased has been identified as a 14-year-old male passenger, confirmed by a social media post from the Santa Rosa Police Department (SRPD). The...

– Sutter Health, an integrated not-for-profit healthcare system based in Northern California, and Flosonics Medical today announced an expansion of the deployment of FloPatch, the first wireless wearable Doppler ultrasound device, across multiple hospital sites to support more precise and timely intravenous (IV)...

NAPA CO.: FATHER CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE, DUI AFTER 10-YEAR-OLD SON DIES IN CRASH

When someone in Sonoma County faces a mental health crisis, trained counselors — not just police officers — now respond to help. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has committed nearly $6 million from voter-approved Measure O to keep mobile crisis response teams operating in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Cotati, Rohnert...

Over the recent weekend, Novato Police Department made multiple arrests in connection with an auto burglary on Marin Valley Drive. According to a social media post by the department, the arrests followed a crime tip received last week that included camera footage showing a yellow Mini Cooper involved in the incident.