Novato News

Novato has applied for a $14,805 grant through the U.S. Department of Justice to help reduce violence and crime.

A Novato High School student tested positive for swine flu and was quarantined while traveling in South America with a group of students from Novato and Justin-Siena High School in Napa.

Novato firefighters scrambled to extinguish an early-morning grass fire Friday that burned close to homes at the top of Bryan Drive, near Marion Park.

This talk explores the rich landscape tradition in Northern California through the eyes of visual artists, from Arthur Mathews and William Keith to Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley.

A man convicted of murdering a 42-year-old Novato resident in 1988 is making a new bid for parole this summer.

A Novato woman with no driver's license was charged Tuesday with hitting a 14-year-old boy on a skateboard and fleeing the scene, authorities said.

Some of the most talented scientists in the Bay Area came to the Buck Institute for Age Research in Novato Tuesday to participate in a symposium on Alzheimer's research, sponsored by the Chicago-based Alzheimer's Association.

Two small grass fires early Tuesday morning in Novato are considered suspicious, fire officials said.

Mary Neilan is leaving Novato after six years as assistant city manager. A top administrator in Novato has accepted the job of city manager in St.

Two artists have started sketch work on five murals on the western side of the Millworks building in downtown Novato.

A Novato man is in good spirits and recovering from major surgery after being struck by a motorcyclist in a May 27 wreck that killed his 9-year-old daughter.

Q: I read about a Bay Area man who was sentenced to a year in jail and a year of house arrest for drunken driving.

Hennessy Advisors Inc. today announced that it has signed an agreement with New York-based Sparx Investment and Research USA Inc.

Friends from Melody Osheroff's Girl Scout troop simply wanted to plant a few flowers in her memory after the May 27 motorcycle accident that took her life.

As schools across California and the rest of the coutnry plan to downsize their education programs, learning management systems are becoming an increasingly appealing option.

A Novato woman was arrested on allegations she zapped her landlord in the face with a Taser stun gun when he came to inspect the property Tuesday, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

The levels of arsenic found at the Hamilton Pool construction site are normal, safe and naturally occurring, according to the city of Novato.

If you happened to see group of runners followed closely by a phalanx of police cars, cops on motorcycles and a sheriff's van this morning in Marin, you weren't imagining it.

Mary Page walks past a creek. Erosion in her yard can be seen across the creek in the background.

A report by the University of California Cooperative Extension suggests the National Park Service may have downplayed the importance of farming within the Point Reyes National Seashore.