Sonoma County News

A suspected drunken driver whose pickup smashed into a sedan on Highway 12 in Santa Rosa and killed two women riding in the back seat bailed out of jail early Sunday morning, a jail official said.

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported Sunday that a black-and-white Labrador named Oreo somehow made her way half-way down a 90-foot cliff along the Pacific coast in Sonoma County and couldn't get back up.

This is a state that includes the beaches of Marin and Sonoma counties, the Napa Wine Country, the metropolis of Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.

"How the West Was One" includes Nick Dantona's color-saturated scenes, capturing fields and silhouetted trees in Sonoma County, Calif., as well as other landscapes topped with dramatic cloud formations.

It would be hard to live in Chico and not know there are commercial aircraft landing and taking off here, but I'm told that is the case.

The 2009 merlot blend was still resting outside in a massive steel tank, but after one taste a young couple left their phone number and told winemaker Robert Rex that they wanted to buy some once it's bottled.

Rescuers from the Sonoma County Sheriff's helicopter and local fire departments saved an injured woman kayaker who had become pinned against a log Friday afternoon in the Russian River near Healdsburg.

An Oakland man has been arrested on suspicion of purchasing nearly $7,000 worth of jewelry in Sonoma with a fraudulent credit card.

Almost two years after the Petaluma City Council approved the Deer Creek Village shopping center, the plaza's anchor store, Friedman's Home Improvement, will open its doors in April.

Construction work to improve the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit tracks in Marin County began this week after the commuter rail authority received myriad environmental permits.

Aided by a K-9 drug sniffing dog, a California Highway Patrol officer and a Sonoma deputy uncovered a hidden stash of 50 pounds of marijuana and $14,000 in cash during a Thursday night traffic stop, authorities said.

Prue Draper, left, of the Cotati Historical Society and Louise Santero, a longtime Cotati resident, stand next to an extremely rare albino chimera redwood tree near the railroad tracks at East Cotati Avenue.

Windsor City Council member Deb Fudge has secured the endorsement of the Sonoma County Democratic Party in her quest to replace outgoing Fourth District Supervisor Mike McGuire, the party said Thursday.

"Transit riders who use County Connection and the region's other small suburban transit agencies have long been looking forward to enjoying the same convenience and security that Clipper already provides for passengers on BART, Muni, AC Transit and our other large operators," said MTC Chair Amy Rein Worth, who also serves as an Orinda city ... (more)

With St. Patrick's Day festivities getting underway, Petaluma Police Department Chief Patrick Williams and the Avoid the 13 DUI Task Force are reminding drivers not to get behind the wheel if they have been drinking.

This report covers the following stations in the group of radio stations that is collectively known as the Sinclair Communications-Santa Rosa cluster: Call Sign Facility ID# Community of License Licensee Name KXTS 43711 Calistoga, CA Sinclair Telecable Inc. KRSH 16257 Healdsburg, CA Deas Communications Inc. KSXY 72925 Calistoga, CA Commonwealth ... (more)

One of downtown Santa Rosa's most iconic pieces of public art - a 13-foot-tall, mosaic-covered concrete and steel statue of a rainbow trout, titled "Guardian of the Creek" - soon will get guardians of its own.

A San Ramon-based developer and owner of medical real estate on Thursday said it purchased a 69,000-square-foot medical office building in Rohnert Park and plans to bring a new tenant into half of it.

Penngrove rancher John King has entered the race for Sonoma County's 2nd District supervisorial seat, setting up a rematch with Supervisor David Rabbitt, who he faced in the crowded 2010 primary.

Reps. Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman are urging President Barack Obama not to eliminate geothermal royalty payments totaling nearly $2 million a year to Sonoma and Lake counties.