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Sonoma County's two biggest wine trade groups are becoming one. The Sonoma County Winegrowers and the Sonoma County Vintners said Wednesday they will fold their winery memberships into a single…
A California sea lion that turned up along the Petaluma River last week was rescued Monday and later euthanized, after wildlife veterinarians found signs of a marine neurotoxin that attacks…
The City of Sonoma has detected PFAS — the long-lived industrial compounds known as "forever chemicals" — in its drinking water system, including one municipal well that tested above the…
Rafael Malfavon has spent 10 years moving wine through the warehouse at Rodney Strong Vineyards, and he says the pay still leaves him deciding "whether I buy food or new…
The bug most likely to give you Lyme is too small to feel.
THE GROUND THAT BURNED to the foundations during Lake County’s Valley Fire in 2015, on a fault the U.S. Geological Survey rates capable of a magnitude 7
The budget that will run Santa Rosa for the next year takes effect Wednesday, and it leans on savings and one-time money to put off the deeper cuts the city…
Sonoma County supervisors have dropped their push to ask voters this November to rewrite Measure P, the 2020 ballot law that gave the county’s civilian watchdog real power over the…
A plan to turn 109 wooded acres above Angwin into Napa County’s first green cemetery — a place where the dead go into the ground with no embalming, no concrete…
Five years after the accusations that ended his political career, Dominic Foppoli is about to face his accusers in a courtroom — not a criminal one, but a civil one.…
The cows are leaving Point Reyes. The question now is what moves back in — and scientists and conservationists have an answer that starts with the beaver.
Cloverdale wants a seat at the table as a new, landowner-run water district takes shape on its doorstep — and it just picked who will sit in it.
A Napa County judge on Friday refused to free a Napa woman from jail while she awaits trial on murder charges in a 2025 drunken-driving crash that killed her two…
On Tuesday, the board set aside a resolution to terminate the Master Tax Sharing Agreement and directed a joint meeting with the City of Ukiah and an outside consultant on…
Those attending the FERC scoping in Ukiah ended up speaking to a court reporter in private.
Forward progress stopped, evacuation orders lifted at 1:32 p.m.
Days before their contract runs out, Mendocino County's union workers got a 1% raise offer. Two years ago, the supervisors gave themselves 16%.
Sonoma County’s official homeless count held nearly steady this year — 1,951 people tallied on a single night in January, one fewer than in 2025. But a
Don’t worry: the fog will burn off by midday…late afternoon…evening?
The community action agency cites federal cuts. A 2025 audit found a $3 million accounting error.
The Santa Rosa City Council voted unanimously to adopt a $575.9 million budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, eliminating 27 positions and tapping reserves to close an…
SAN JOSE — An Israeli aviation company has sued San Jose-based Archer Aviation in federal court, claiming the air-taxi maker's flagship aircraft copy a patented flight-control system built to keep…
A Sonoma County farmer who's been growing vegetables on a hillside parcel for five years and now wants to plant wine grapes faces a bureaucratic wall: under current rules, that…
The Hill Road crossing over Mill Creek that east-side Round Valley residents know as the Green Bridge gave out under a car on June 12. The people who depended on…
Piner's Nursing Home, a Napa care facility with roots going back to 1946, quietly changed hands last week for $6.25 million and has been renamed Napa Community Health Center —…
Federal agriculture and interior officials convened a meeting Monday at the White House with PG&E and a Southern California water district over the future of the Eel River — and…
The town of St. Helena got its first municipal water company on July 27, 1878. The St. Helena Star announced it that morning: "It gives us great pleasure to record…
Three times in the last decade, Napa County voters have been asked to tax themselves for wildfire prevention or open space. Each time, a clear majority of voters said yes.…
DESCENDANTS OF THE POMO who survived the 1850 Bloody Island Massacre still live around Clear Lake. Many can’t drive into town without passing a name that, to them, honors one…
A golden mussel no bigger than a fingernail is working its way across California, clogging the pipes, pumps and canals that move the state's water. Lake Berryessa is still free…
The state is putting $16.3 million into fixing five stretches of Highway 1 and U.S. 101 in Mendocino County that storms and a landslide tore up over the past year.…
For more than two years, getting the mail in this town at the northern tip of Mendocino County meant a half-hour drive up Highway 101 to Garberville. On Monday morning,…
The work that stops a wildfire mostly happens before anyone smells smoke. The Land Trust of Napa County just put 200 acres of it on the ground — clearing brush…
A dinner at The French Laundry runs about $425 a head before the first course lands. Three people who used to wash its dishes and work its dining room say…
Earlier this month the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors declared the county's farms and working lands "critical infrastructure" — as essential, the resolution says, as the systems that keep us…
Steve Amato is still out working his 38 acres of cabernet off Feliz Creek Road. He prunes. He sprays. He suckers the vines. He mows the grass between the rows…
Graton Resort & Casino is on a hiring run, adding hundreds of workers as the first pieces of its $1 billion expansion open — a buildout that puts the Rohnert…
Lower-income households in Sonoma and Mendocino counties can now get a smart thermostat installed in their homes for free — the latest move by Sonoma Clean Power to trim summer…
A bridge on Hill Road near Covelo gave way Friday as a vehicle crossed it, dropping the car onto its roof beside the Eel River and leaving the driver with…
If you've ever waited on a permit from the City of Napa and figured the planning counter was dragging its feet, the county's civil grand jury has a surprise: the…
Sonoma County supervisors have dropped plans to ask voters this November to strengthen Measure P, the 2020 initiative that expanded the powers of the county's independent police watchdog — a…
If you grow grapes in the Napa Valley — or just own a house out in the country with a well — a new charge is about to show up…
The fire that CAL FIRE's wine country unit carries into tonight's red flag warning is one the agency lit itself. The Putah Fire, 869 acres along Highway 128 west of…
The lights could go out across parts of Sonoma County tonight — on purpose. County emergency officials say a PG&E public safety power shutoff is likely from this evening into…
Sonoma Clean Power wants to put a free smart thermostat on the wall of up to 1,000 lower-income homes in Sonoma and Mendocino counties — professionally installed, no charge —…
For half a century, North Coast Opportunities, based in Ukiah, has been part of the floor under Mendocino and Lake counties — the agency that fed people going through cancer…
Every summer a line of volunteers in masks and wetsuits floats down the South Fork Eel, shoulder to shoulder across the current, counting the one fish almost everyone on the…
Some guy at the end of the bar swears it’s gotten hotter out by the Narrows since they widened U.S. Highway 101. Normally you let that kind of thing slide,…
On the Mendocino coast, the question isn’t whether you can bring the dog. It’s to which beach. The rules change every few miles: off-leash at a couple of spots, a…
SANTA ROSA — The last bell at Hilliard Comstock Middle School rang Friday, ending 54 years on West Steele Lane and closing one more campus in a Santa Rosa City…