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One person was taken to a hospital after a medical water rescue Thursday evening at Jug Handle State Natural Reserve near Caspar, a Cal Fire dispatch captain said Friday.
The two people found dead Aug. 30 in a vehicle that went off a hillside outside Willits were Phillip R. Colvard, 68, and his wife, Bernice D. Colvard, 57, of…
It took the Mendo-Lake Regional SWAT Team to bring in Benjamin Miller the first time. A deputy had tried to contact him near Redwood Valley on the last day of…
The earthquake hit at 10:44 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, magnitude 7.0, somewhere off the Mendocino coast. Eleven minutes later the tsunami warning came with a number attached: the first…
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office closed its Fort Bragg front counter to walk-in visitors on Wednesday afternoon. The reason was staffing, and the math behind it is simple. Two people…
On Friday, July 10, the ground under Round Valley wouldn’t stop moving. A run of quakes rolled through north of Covelo over a few-hour span — at least six of…
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office publishes a log of every call it answers. It goes up as a PDF each morning, one line per call, and almost nobody reads it.…
Mendocino County search teams spent Saturday combing the Eel River canyon east of Covelo for signs of a hunter who went missing during a flood more than four years ago,…
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck about 7 miles north of Covelo at 6:14 p.m. Friday, the third and largest quake to hit the same area of northern Mendocino County since…
Forward progress stopped, evacuation orders lifted at 1:32 p.m.
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…
In places like Brooktrails, this is the time of year when people start looking down a little more carefully. The grass is up. The days are warming. Kids run ahead…
If you sat through Tuesday night’s Sonoma City Council meeting (Feb. 4), you heard two very different kinds of local truth in the same room.
A newly released oversight report on the 2022 killing of David Peláez Chavez by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy faults the agency’s tactics and transparency, highlighting missed chances to use…
In a city where wildfire risk looms year-round, the job of fire marshal is one of the most important in public safety. Petaluma has a new person in that role:…
Every 2½ days, another Sonoma County resident dies from an overdose. The toll—about 12 lives a month—has made the county the third highest in the Bay Area for overdose mortality.…
Smoke in the air. Heat bearing down. Anxiety running high across Sonoma County. Against that backdrop, one story has cut through the haze: the Sheriff’s helicopter crew pulling off a…
Sonoma County is sweating through a late-summer heat wave just as smoke from the Pickett Fire over the hill in Napa nudges air quality around the edges of the county.…
The Russian is generous in summer—shade, slow water along the shore, a place to cool down. It’s also unforgiving when we forget it’s a moving river. Three people drowned here…
At a July 23, 2025, meeting of the Sonoma Valley Community Advisory Commission (SVCAC), Deputy Ryan Foiles, a motorcycle officer assigned to traffic enforcement for the City of Sonoma, revealed…
The rugged Sonoma County coastline—from Point Reyes to Point Arena—is a stunning landscape beloved by residents and visitors alike. But beneath its scenic beauty lies a rarely discussed yet serious…
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…
When Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies share inmate information with federal immigration officials, it can instantly change lives—families split apart, community trust erodes, and neighborhoods feel less safe. This Tuesda
What if Sonoma County residents have to flee another wildfire or flood — and can’t get out in time?
Sonoma County is installing free vending machines stocked with lifesaving supplies—such as overdose-reversal medication—in an effort to fight rising opioid-related deaths and offer discreet, stigma-free access to critica
For most residents here, tsunami risk probably doesn’t cross your mind every day — if ever. After all, Sonoma County’s rugged coastline, with its high cliffs and bluffs, feels pretty…
Please don’t join the Darwin club by trying to drive through flooded roadways. Bad idea. Don’t do it.