Sonoma County News

Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin "helping" them.

Following similar action taken by the state and county, this week the Petaluma City Council unanimously voted to seek a voluntary 20 percent reduction in water usage to combat continued drought conditions.

A man who dislocated his shoulder by falling off rocks at a rugged beach was rescued with the help of the Sonoma County Sheriff's helicopter, Bodega Bay Fire Capt.

Did you know we have a celebrity animal control officer in our county? Shirley Zindler has been with the Sonoma County Animal Care and Control since 2001, the last 10 years as an officer.

A Santa Rosa man under surveillance as a habitual DUI driver with 19 arrests for driving under the influence on his record was taken into custody Friday afternoon for operating a vehicle with a suspended license, according to Petaluma Police.

A surge in mail thefts around the county, a doubling of car break-ins in downtown Santa Rosa in December and a spree of burglaries in Petaluma were among the upticks in property crime that kept Sonoma County law enforcement busy in 2013.

A coalition of Sonoma County government agencies and environmental groups is ramping up its fight to protect the Sonoma Developmental Center from development and to maintain residential care for an unspecified number of severely disabled clients.

The death of a man found face down in a west Petaluma drainage ditch remained under investigation Friday as suspicious, but police officials were releasing no details.

A crumbling rock and concrete jetty largely buried and forgotten beneath the sand at the mouth of the Russian River has become the focus of renewed interest amid studies to determine its impact on the adjacent estuary.

Sonoma County job seekers can submit resumes and meet face to face with hospitality company officials at an employment fair Friday in Santa Rosa.

An El Nino weather watch was issued Thursday morning for the Bay Area during the coming summer months, a National Weather Service forecaster said.

The Sonoma Stompers baseball club needs a few more players, and final approval on making Arnold Field its home, for its inaugural season to begin in June.

Wednesday morning I heard birds chirping - a lot of birds. The radio was blaring in the living room, and my first thought was that KCHO was airing a segment on creatures of the Amazon.

When Miles Levin first joined the JCC of Sonoma County's teen program, Chaverim, he anticipated a stereotypical Jewish youth group with a bunch of kids sitting in a circle happily extolling the virtues of religion.

This is one reason the crisis in Ukraine cuts deeply into Windsor's Martha Adelle Dunlop and Fred Ptucha of Santa Rosa.

Sonoma County is set to get 1/3- to 1/2-inch of rain Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

A standing-room only crowd of more than 200 people showed up Wednesday night in Petaluma to a town hall meeting for a communitywide discussion on crime.

Cloverdale's plans for future growth continue to be a topic of debate and somewhat of a puzzle to the government officials who are responsible for setting the city's ultimate boundaries.

While Petaluma police officers know John Antonio as a fellow brother in blue, to many Sonoma County students he is merely known as "Coach" - since he's the head football coach at Piner High School in Santa Rosa.

State Sen. Noreen Evans is back in a high-profile leadership role and taking on some of California's most powerful interests with her legislative agenda, only a month after the Santa Rosa Democrat appeared to be losing political steam in Sacramento.