Graton News

A strong grape harvest and growing demand for young vines boosted Sonoma County agriculture above $821 million in value in 2012, a 41 percent increase over 2011, according to a new report from the county agricultural commissioner.

Local officials are not ready to gamble on a 277-acre parcel of land just south of town owned by the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians and pursuing ways to prevent the tribe from building a gaming casino.

Rohnert Park officials are scrambling to prepare for a great unknown that has been years in arriving - what will happen when a 24-hour, 3,000-slot-machine casino opens on the west edge of the city? "We have no idea what the impacts will be," Vice Mayor Joe Callinan said Tuesday as the council reviewed the report of a city task force that is trying ... (more)

An unprecedented tsunami of development along Highway 101 in Sonoma County is putting thousands of people to work and pumping nearly $2 billion into the economy.

Third District Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane and Rohnert Park Mayor Pam Stafford were the only two up front where the microphones were at a Town Hall meeting in Rohnert Park's Public Library Wednesday night.