Sonoma News

Athletes compete during the Northern California Special Olympics at Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, Calif.

After a day of racing at the track, 30 vintage racecars will depart Sonoma Raceway under a full CHP escort and head to Sebastiani Winery for the Historic Race Car Festival on Saturday, May 18.

Sonoma Community Center has announced that its traditional annual fundaiser, Ox Roast, will not occur this year.

For The Sun) This weekend, people across the County will be busy planting gardens, installing rain barrels, hanging clotheslines and shopping at local farmer's markets.

A new Sonoma organization describing itself as a broad citizens group opposed to a voter initiative to cap hotel development is getting its seed money from the developer whose controversial project could be blocked by the proposed ballot measure.

Sonoma Stakeholders, a series of presentations on important local issues, opens May 22 with "Crime in Sonoma: What You Need to Know." Bret Sackett, Sonoma's chief of police, will be the speaker.

Editor: I have lived in a rural area, suburbia and a big city. I lived in Pleasant Hill, remembering the drive to my grandfather's farm in Walnut Creek to help harvest the walnuts.

Belt Buckle Bill - aka Bill Noble - has encountered a number of hazards on the road as a fair and show vendor, but he expects his cozy corner inside the Commercial Building at the Glenn County Fair will be safe.

It's just one of those things for Ross Alzina and Cindy Brillhart-True in "Let's Misbehave," an original comedy centered on the songs of composer Cole Porter opening Thursday, May 16.

Sonoma Stage Works will present staged readings of new works by the 12 semi-finalists of PlayFest, a short-play competition and festival.

Sometimes we locals take for granted the fact that we live in such a picturesque area, but really, HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS PLACE IS? One place to soak it all in is the UC Botanical Garden , whose redwood grove - a small sliver of Muir Woods in the Berkeley Hills - is home to a tiny, two-hundred-seat, all-wooden amphitheater.

Sonoma County supervisors were told Tuesday that they could have $24.4 million in property tax revenue available through mid-2017 to complete former county redevelopment projects and programs.

There's a Week for just about everything, but few sound as important as National Emergency Medical Services Week, May 20 - 26.

The number of Italian grape varietals grown in various regions of California is on the rise.

From Bay City News Service Search teams from Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties are trying to find a 9-year-old autistic girl who was last seen in her yard in Clearlake in Lake County on Sunday afternoon.

Bubbly will be made at Burgers and Vine, the restaurant going into the Old Sonoma Creamery.

Summer camp is almost a rite of the season for some families. For others, summer programs offer kids something to do while mom and dad are at work, a chance to explore a new interest or an opportunity to improve an existing talent.

With a newly renovated theater space and more shows than ever before, the Sonoma Theatre Alliance is preparing for its biggest season to date.

Team Relaypallooza will hold a team fundraiser, Karaoke for the Cure at Steiners Tavern.

The U.S. Department of Commerce gave final approval to an application submitted by the Port of San Francisco last October to expand its Foreign Trade Zone No.