Santa Rosa Metro News

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today appointed 30 new Superior Court judges in 13 counties, including three in Solano County and one in Sonoma County.

Santa Rosa water officials said California's driest spring on record could even hurt farmers who rely on once-abundant supplies of recycled wastewater.

Craig Benedict Lee, 54, pleaded no contest on March 11 to one count of possessing child pornography.

Work begins this week on the new, green Nissan dealership, the first green Nissan agency and the first auto agency on the West Coast to go for gold LEED certification.

NEW YORK The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, Calif., plans to lay off 5% of its work force, or 17 full-time positions, "to reduce costs in response to sharp declines in advertising revenue," the paper revealed in ...

San Carlos has hired a full-time public works director to replace an independent contractor, whose contract raised some eyebrows recently when the city agreed to boost his pay.

BOLINAS, Calif. -- Ricky Green wandered into this town some months ago, a stranger just a bit stranger than most.

Three law enforcement agencies in Sonoma County responded quickly to a robbery at a doughnut store Tuesday afternoon.

Under a smoky sunset in the private Atherton garden of Sue Burns, attendees at the 10th annual Sequoia Hospital Foundation Wine Auction on June 26 didn't let the wildfire haze obstruct their "vision." "Today ...

Some Pearl Street merchants say the city's signage ordinance is bad for business - and Boulder by Pamela White Robert Eastman was hard at work in his candy store on Pearl Street when two "huge guys" walked up ...

The recent decisions by airlines to eliminate local service at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport will cause a loss of jobs and disrupt families.

In Sonoma County, approximately 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions come from the use of natural gas and electricity used to heat, power and cool buildings.

A 24-year-old Army paratrooper who grew up in Santa Rosa and died last month in Afghanistan was buried Monday with full military honors.

W e have been panting, waiting!" says Jeanne DeJoseph, who is renovating and readying her house in San Mateo to put on the market.

On Sundays, Lou and Susan Preston open up the cellar under their tasting room, put on some Italian music and ready their jugs.

It's a bizarre yet wondrous sight: a 40-foot humpback whale holding position only a few feet beside a 75-foot catamaran.

Members of a gang task force are serving warrants at clubhouses belonging to members of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang in San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and Healdsburg Wednesday morning.

Police and the FBI executed search warrants Wednesday morning in San Francisco, Healdsburg and Santa Rosa in an effort to find evidence connecting Hells Angels members to assaults in February and March.

Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa will announce details Thursday about 123 layoffs it is planning at its hospital on Chanate Road.

Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa spokeswoman Lisa Amador said Wednesday afternoon the layoffs will be "across the board" from administrative and managerial employees to floor staff. The medical center currently has 1,081 employees.

Of the 123 employees to be let go, 86 have benefits and 37 do not, Amador said. The layoffs do not include employees of Sutter Medical Foundation North Bay, Sutter VNA and Hospice and Sutter's breast care center on Steele Lane, Amador said.