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Today's work of art is one that I own and is hanging on the wall in my kitchen. It's by a local artist, Rik Olson , who's an illustrator as well as a fine artist.

The ancestral homeland of the Coast Miwok includes all of Marin and southern Sonoma counties, with the City of Sonoma being at the eastern limit of their territory at the time of Spanish contact.

Kathleen Acord, 47, a longtime employee at public radio and television station KQED in San Francisco, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.

The founders of Far Niente Winery in the Napa Valley, a great name in Chardonnay and Cabernet, are finally unveiling what has been known as a secret project, a new Russian River project called EnRoute devoted to Pinot Noir.

Emma Shaw Crane spent her teens riding horses and making mischief at her Waldorf school in Santa Rosa, Calif.

I t's hard to make out faces while passing them on the highway. They may even seem mere dots, spread out against distant rolling expanses of immaculately groomed wine country vineyards.

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Graton Ridge Cellars in Sonoma County's lush winegrowing area is doing their part to ease the pain of the Recession one glass at a time.

Derek Benham, the founder of Purple Wine Co. in Graton and a serial wine entrepreneur for nearly two decades, got off the best line.

Job Description: Lynmar Winery, located just north of Graton and west of Sebastopol in the heart of the Russian River Valley, is a finest quality producer of Estate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

Guerneville merchants are trying to solve the problem of laborers on the street before the summer tourist season starts.

Sonoma Wine Co. , the Graton-based custom crush wine producer, has bought the Greenfield Winery, a 115,000-square-foot production facility in American Canyon, from its private owners.

Sonoma Wine Company, a leader in contract wine production has announced that it is expanding with a facility in American Canyon, CA.

Having sealed a pact with Sonoma County in July 2008, the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria announced last week that it is gifting the city of Rohnert Park with $500,000 to maintain the city's special ...

There are reports of downed trees, power outages and flooding in the Bay Area. In San Pablo, water has flooded at least a couple of homes in the Lettia Road, Heather Drive neighborhood.

The North Coast Builders Exchange's plans for a green-building education center could be operational by mid-summer. The center currently is envisioned to occupy 1,400 square feet in the group's Santa Rosa ...

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SONOMA CO., Calif. -- Four men have been arrested for assaulting a Graton man at his residence during a burglary Thursday morning.

A 24-year-old man was arrested for indecent exposure in unincorporated Sonoma County's Graton area over the weekend after he was caught masturbating in a yard, sheriff's deputies said.