Marin County News

Marin County law enforcement agencies are urging residents to keep the streets safe this Thanksgiving by drinking responsibly and designating a sober driver.

A San Rafael man convicted of five felony counts in connection with the rape of a female hiker at a Stinson Beach campsite more than four years ago was sentenced to 33 years to life in prison Tuesday.

Terra Linda High School senior Laura Jones won nearly $2,000 in scholarship cash and the title of Miss Marin County 2010 in a recent competition sponsored by the Miss America Organization.

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A controversial plan to track every car, truck and SUV that rolls into the tony Marin County community of Tiburon will take center stage at a public hearing on Wednesday.

A Marin County man who set fire to a Vallejo warehouse containing 6-million bottles of wine has agreed to plead guilty in a plea bargain that will send him to prison for almost 16 years.

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

The din was inescapable in one particular room on Saturday, with wailing babies, crying kids and anxious looking parents.

Friends and family of a French national stabbed to death in San Francisco in 2007 are asking why an independent medical examiner's inquiry earlier this year that contradicted police findings was not released to the public.

A Mill Valley man will be arraigned in Marin County Superior Court Thursday afternoon for an alleged domestic violence incident at an inn on Shoreline Highway.

Six people indicted in connection with the murder of Novato businessman Tong Van Le last year pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Marin County Superior Court.

The Veterans Day program at the Marin Civic Center on Wednesday had all the storied traditions in order - military songs played by a band, an introduction of veterans' group leaders in the county, an ROTC color guard with flag exercises, an impassioned speech and an outdoor program that included the laying of wreaths and the playing of "Taps." In ...

I APPRECIATE the IJ editorial calling for the cities to have "skin in the game" regarding the funding demands of Marin Energy Authority, instead of leaving the entire burden for loans to the county.

A Marin Housing Authority program that makes it possible for low-income residents to buy homes in Marin is continuing to struggle, even though it recently won an 18-month court battle with the banking giant HSBC for possession of a Sausalito condominium.

Authorities in Marin County have been busy lately looking for lost hikers. Seven Marin County deputies, a water district ranger and a California Highway Patrol air crew were all called out to locate two hikers who were lost after dark Saturday in the hills above Fairfax.

Mendocino County's unemployment rate dropped again in September to 10.1 percent, down from 10.5 percent in August.

A 47-year-old mother of eight remains behind bars after admitting to embezzling from an elderly Marin County couple.

Privatization of the Novato Sanitary District's $90 million sewage treatment plant will go to voters next year.

Sean Penn's teenage son was reportedly arrested last week at his high school. Sean Penn's teenage son was reportedly arrested last week.

Voters in Marin County Tuesday re-elected 10 of 14 incumbents seeking re-election to nine councils.