Sonoma County News

Petaluma resident Wilma T. Kunkel died on Sunday, Dec.1, 2013 following a short illness, with her family by her side.

The Santa Rosa man convicted of sexually assaulting three teenage girls in 2009 could be out of prison early, after his 19 year sentence was reduced.

The new bridge has arched girders, wave patterns on the deck and pier caps and fractured fin texture on the columns.

In this photo provided by the Lopez family is a picture of Andy Lopez, who was killed by sheriff's deputies in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Under pressure from several cities, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Tuesday backed away from a proposal that would have allowed the county's 11 largest library branches to have different operating hours.

Butte County deputies traveled to Sonoma County to arrest two men for a botched home invasion robbery that left their accomplice dead.

A regional transportation body on Wednesday could allocate a key funding piece to build a commuter rail station near the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport.

The Sonoma County coroner's office has identified a man who died after being found unconscious in his car near his burning home north of Bodega Bay early Monday morning as 62-year-old Steven Wayne McAlpin.

Dozens of angry protesters flooded the City Council chambers of a Northern California town Tuesday to protest the return to duty of a sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy in October.

IN JUNE'S first round primary election, Marin and parts of south and central Sonoma County will likely see a contested race for the state Assembly.

Divers and an underwater robot were searching Lake Sonoma Tuesday afternoon after a recreational diver reported seeing possible human remains in the water on Friday, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.

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.