September 2026
The Mendocino Voice
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…
August 2026
The Mendocino Voice
For a few weeks this summer, if you drove into Fort Bragg from the south, the ocean was just there. The old wooden fence along the west side of Main…
July 2026
The Mendocino Voice
Mendocino County spent the spring building a case that its roads are failing faster than it can fix them. On Tuesday three supervisors voted to put the matter to voters…
The Mendocino Voice
Highway 101 is the main drag through Hopland, and starting the night of Sunday, July 12, it narrows to one lane after dark.
June 2026
The Mendocino Voice
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…
Local News Matters
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…
Local News Matters
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,…
May 2026
Sebastopol Times
The agenda for the April 21 Sebastopol City Council meeting seemed rather blasé, but the council chambers were packed with neighbors from some of the town’s worst-maintained streets come to…
February 2026
Sonoma County Gazette
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.
August 2025
Sonoma County Gazette
Seven months after a February slide damaged Westside Road and sent a house into the Russian River, the county will reopen the Forestville segment on August 28 at noon. This…
Sonoma County Gazette
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…
November 2024
Sonoma County Gazette
Please don’t join the Darwin club by trying to drive through flooded roadways. Bad idea. Don’t do it.