Sonoma County News

By Saturday, the low in Santa Rosa could be a relatively balmy 37 degrees, he said, with highs reaching into the 60s.

A Franz Valley Road cabin burned to the ground early Tuesday and spread to some nearby brush, according to Sonoma County fire dispatch reports.

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a 55-year-old man who went missing from a Sonoma nursing home on Sunday.

The Sonoma County coroner's office has identified a woman who died after a crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Healdsburg on Saturday morning as 52-year-old Sandra Joy Adams, of Santa Rosa.

Sonoma County has reached a tentative labor agreement with sheriff's deputies that includes reduced pension costs for taxpayers and increased county contributions toward employee medical expenses.

In this photo taken Tuesday Oct. 22, 2013, law enforcement investigators look over the body of a 13-year-old boy shot and killed by officers in Santa Rosa, Calif.

In this photo taken Tuesday Oct. 22, 2013, law enforcement investigators look over the body of a 13-year-old boy shot and killed by officers in Santa Rosa, Calif.

A man was found dead in a car outside of a burning home north of Bodega Bay early Monday morning, a fire chief said.

Two cousins had been at a Cloverdale vineyard fighting over what to do with 60 pounds of harvested marijuana before one pulled a pistol and shot the other to death, a witness testified Monday.

When Francis Ford Coppola puts his name on a film you see it and when he pts his name on a wine you gulp with gusto.

Only a solitary sign marks the site that Petaluma dreamed would become home to the Polly Hannah Klaas Performing Arts Center at 407 Western Ave. It's a dream that has stalled out since the board of directors overseeing the effort disbanded.

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports Deputy Erick Gelhaus will be on a desk assignment while the Sonoma County district attorney reviews an investigative report and determines whether he committed criminal wrongdoing.

Amcor Flexibles is installing its second American Canyon production line for long-skirted Stelvin Plus aluminum screw caps, effectively doubling the production capacity for the bottle closure targeted at higher-end North Coast wines, according to plant General Manager Frederic Catteau .

In recent years, Rack & Riddle has averaged 6,000 tons of grape crushing annually.

Despite near-freezing temperatures, a robust crowd of more than 1,700 turned out for the annual Lighting of the Snowmen Festival at Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma.

The Sebastopol City Council Tuesday night unanimously selected as mayor the founder and executive director of two Peace in Medicine licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Sonoma County.

On a hillside vineyard in Dry Creek Valley, Rich Mounts maneuvered a tractor through the rows, hauling a few bins of lush zinfandel grapes that had just been plucked from the vine.

Oral arguments in an appeal challenging county approval of the Dutra Materials asphalt plant just south of Petaluma will be heard next month in San Francisco.

It's silly, I know. But these days when I pass by the scored-concrete municipal administration center at Sonoma and Santa Rosa avenues, I feel a twinge of nostalgia.

Dec. 08 --When Santa Rosa financial planner Greg Randall initially sits down with a client, he likes to ask a question: What's your plan if you should end up in a nursing home and have to pay $100,000 a year for five years? For Randall, it's not an academic question.