Bodega Bay News

With fireworks, games, free fishing and more, this year's 4th of July will certainly be memorable.

Coastal habitat restoration projects in the Bay Area will receive nearly $18 million in federal stimulus money, Gov.

When it comes to wine, does it really matter from which plot of land the grapes come? This question was explored in depth recently at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Bar at Grand Boulevard during the restaurant's quarterly wine dinner.

From Jenner and Bodega Bay on the coast to the western edge of Santa Rosa, the bucolic, bohemian side of Sonoma County is a hive of artists working on canvas, on looms, on film and in kilns.

The wine world's cross-valley rivals go head to jead at June wine dinner. -- Chain Leader, 5/29/2009 4:32:00 PM PRESS RELEASE: NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar is proud to present one of the great rivalries of the wine world: Napa Valley vs.

Took a long drive today from Rohnert Park along the Russian River to the Sonoma County Coast.

W ine at the coast is a mixed pleasure. On the beach proper, it makes a fine accessory to good times, but not to good winetasting notes.

A charmed Marin County lifestyle of grilled salmon, spiritual succor and the occasional herb-induced trance state may sound totally 21st century, but for thousands of years that's precisely how our regional forebears, the Coast Miwok, passed the livelong day.

Last summer, Gualalaa s July 4th fireworks over the ocean were cancelled due to a "cease and desist" order by the California Coastal Commission.

In our next installment of Battle of the Exes, Leftlane's popular "He said, She said" soap opera, ex-husband and ex-wife "team" John Priddy and Brenda Priddy decided to take a look at Volvo 's XC60, the ultra-safe, compact, premium SUV that goes up against the likewise brand new Mercedes -Benz's GLK and BMW and Land Rover 's established X3 and LR2, ...

The blue whale population on the West Coast is on the rise, according to researchers who photographed this one off Bodega Bay, Calif.

Packed up the family and headed out for a few days of rest and relaxation at Bodega Bay.

Hundreds of plant and animal species have found new homes in California. The summer-brown grass on the hills, the sunfish in the reservoirs, the possum in your garage - all came from somewhere else.

Bodega Bay's salmon fishing fleet is expecting the worst this week when federal officials decide whether to allow any commercial salmon fishing on the West Coast this year.

Having moved to Sonoma last year, Epi was attracted to the area because it fit her pictures of community, lifestyle and nourishment - " a grounding to soil and simplicity that is evident in the nature of the people who live here.

San Luis Obispo fisheries consultant Henry Pontarelli offers a basic rule for sussing out sustainable fish: Keep it local.

There might not be a salmon season this year, but there will be a Fisherman's Festival in Bodega Bay, offering plenty of diversion even for landlubbers who have never pulled a fish from the water.

A SCENIC ride through the California wine country awaits participants in the third annual "Adventure Ride for the Arts 2009," a benefit for the San Ramon Arts Foundation.

Once you venture west of Petaluma, you're on a series of two-laners routed through the countryside en route to the coast.

The Shoreline Unified School District board will consider a tentative agreement with the Shoreline Education Association during a 7 p.m. meeting Thursday, March 19 at the Bodega Bay School at 1200 Canyon St.