Novato News

Patricia Thompson, former Napa city manager and former interim city manager in Novato, will serve as interim city manager in Larkspur as the city searches for a permanent replacement, city officials said Friday.

With nearly half of all precincts in the Novato Sanitary District board election manually counted, Bill Scott is still looking for the 15 votes he needs to catch incumbent Bill Long for the final open board seat.

Amid residents' complaints of water leaks from the Hamilton levee, contractors and engineers are reporting progress installing collection systems for water and mud that have created problems at several sites in Novato's southernmost neighborhoods.

The Marin County coroner's office has identified 29-year-old David Allan Scott of Novato as the man who was found dead at Slide Ranch Monday morning.

A Novato man missing since last week has been found dead on a Marin County beach.

Bob Alten spent his high school years living in Novato and estimates that he has driven by the old City Hall at 901 Sherman Ave.

Long the stepchild of Marin County, the once-sleepy bedroom city of Novato, 30 miles north of San Francisco, is finally coming into its own with a vibrant downtown shopping scene that can now give its better-heeled neighbors like Mill Valley and Corte Madera a run for their money.

Biosearch Technologies in Novato is playing an important role in the battle against swine flu.

The image of Bill Scott in Bill Long's rearview mirror just got larger. The margin separating the two candidates vying for the third and final open seat on the Novato Sanitary District board dwindled to 17 votes on Friday after a tally of provisional ballots.

A contractor nicked a sewer line Thursday morning in downtown Novato, prompting a 6,000-gallon sewage leak that was contained by the early afternoon.

Tong Van Le, 44, of Novato was murdered to prevent his testimony in a robbery case, prosecutors said.

Expansion plans for Novato's cemetery will require another feedback session from neighbors before drawings can be rolled out in front of the city's Design Review Commission again.

Brent Ludvigson and his dog Bella pass through the entry gate on Todd Roadbehind residences at Hamilton in Novato, where some residents are upset about the use of the road for trucks and the transport of heavy equipment being used for the Hamilton Restoration Project and the proposed Bay Trail construction.

For the first time in Novato's 50-year history, its City Council will be an all-female affair with the election of real estate broker and business leader Denise Athas and incumbent Pat Eklund on Tuesday.

A Novato woman arrested in a major drug raid in March has accepted a plea bargain, while her boyfriend's case has been transferred to federal authorities.

Dave Ward, owner of Air Ward, uses a Cessna 172 training plane for flight instruction at his flight school conducted at Gnoss Field in Novato.

A Novato school was placed on lockdown Friday after a despondent man with a gun was found near the campus, police said.

Members of Sustainable Novato say they'll push the Novato City Council to get an ordinance on integrated pest management higher on the council's priority list.

Contractor fraud and identity theft have become the most common crimes against Marin's aging population, experts told Novato seniors at a "Senior Scam Stopper" seminar this week.

For the first time in decades, a development proposal for the Hanna Ranch property in Novato might gain enough traction to move through the civic approval process.