Marin County News

Petaluma police say theya ve arrested an alleged drunken driver with two prior DUI convictions.

Mary Roberts doesn't need inspiration from Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom. She's been growing her own food for years.

Aside from Fourth of July parades and the seemingly endless stream of weekend barbecues that follow, we've been mostly looking forward to this week's return of the MARIN COUNTY FAIR .

Marin County has confirmed its first fatality linked to Swine Flu. A 33 year-old woman died Tuesday from the H1N1 virus at an East Bay hospital.

After more than three years of legal maneuvering, a Las Vegas man was convicted of stalking a Corte Madera woman, breaking into her home and hacking into her computer.

A 33 year-old Marin woman with a confirmed case of the swine flu- or H1N1 virus- has died.

The Marin IJ is reporting a Mill Valley resident has succumbed to swine flu . Robert Derzon, became ill while on a trip to the East Coast in early June.

Raul Atkinson hopes that the all-electric Raptor he built will make a splash at the Marin County Fair.

A California mutt ran off Sunday with the title of 2009 World's Ugliest Dog Champion, besting a former Chinese Crested ugliness champ, officials say.

Two well-known East Palo Alto police detectives are leaving the force, but the department has hired three officers and is on track to be fully staffed for the first time in its history, police said Monday.

Firefighters with the help of two fire boats were able to contain an explosive two-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon that gutted one houseboat and nearly destroyed another on the Sausalito waterfront.

A San Rafael man convicted of four felony counts in connection with the rape of a woman at a Stinson Beach campsite nearly four years ago will be sentenced Aug.

Firefighters light up an open field for near St. Vincent's School for Boys east of Marinwood on Wednesday for participants in the county fire department s wildland firefighter training.

Marin County Fire Battalion Chief Mike Giannini says a grass and oak woodland fire that burned in China Camp State Park Tuesday is 100 percent contained.

Marin County and San Rafael firefighters joined with other units including air tankers, helicopters and hand crews to gain 50 percent containment of a wildland fire that broke out Tuesday afternoon in China Camp State Park, east of San Rafael.

Story poles erected on this possible building site, situated on the hill above the town of San Anselmo corporation yard, is one of two sites that may be developed under a proposal by Jerry and Mea Draper, who want to sell an 11-acre plot next to their farm.

Marin County's installation of a new computerized financial management system, which has cost more than $28.6 million over five years, was "botched" due in large part to insufficient attention to the county's system of internal controls, a new Marin County civil grant jury report states.

A sea lion is now getting checked out at the Marine Mammal Center after leaving the Oakland Estuary and wandering onto the Nimitz Freeway during Monday morning's rush hour.

The Inn Marin in Novato underwent a $2 million renovation a few years ago that included hard bamboo floors of a mahogany color, burgundy bed spreads and pale gold paint on the walls of each hotel room.

The case has all the earmarks of a Hollywood script. Federal drug agents just arrested a female former mountain biking champion who has a penchant for tattoos, nose and lip rings and for wearing the remains of her dead pets in the form of jewelry while she raced.