Petaluma News

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:26 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:26 p.m. Petaluma City Councilman David Glass will seek the city's mayoral seat now that Mayor Pam Torliatt is running for the Sonoma County board of supervisors.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:17 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:17 a.m. An unidentified man was critically injured when his stalled car was struck on Highway 101 in Petaluma early Friday, causing him to be ejected from the driver's side window, the CHP said.

Puccini's La Boheme is one of those operas that means something even to people who have never seen it.

As expected, several state parks in Sonoma County are now operating at reduced hours, reflecting declining financial support from Sacramento.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:45 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:45 a.m. Amid the intrigue of a shopping center developer's offer to prepay taxes and police on the way to deal with a recalcitrant ex-city councilman, Petaluma City Council members on Monday night got a taste of how thorny this next round of budget cuts ...

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:29 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:29 p.m. Petaluma Mayor Pam Torliatt announced Wednesday she will seek election to the 2nd District seat on the Sonoma County board of supervisors.

Published: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 10:34 p.m. Petaluma City Council members on Monday are set to reconfigure a new Planning Commission in what has been billed either as a move toward efficiency or a power-grab by the slow-growth majority.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 4:23 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 4:23 p.m. Despite millions of dollars in cuts and more than three dozen layoffs in the past year, Petaluma officials say they must trim more than $2 million more in the next eight months to balance the budget.

Fifteen years ago, California voters passed the strictest three strikes sentencing law in the nation.

Plans to sell Sonoma County's Central Landfill and three transfer stations and turn its waste disposal operations over to an Arizona company for 20 years failed Tuesday afternoon with two supervisors voting against the divestiture proposal.

For one father, what happened to nine-year-old murder victim Elizabeth Olten is a reminder of his own family tragedy.

The U.S. Coast Guard today will celebrate the completion of a solar energy construction project designed to power its training facility in Petaluma using renewable energy for the next 25 years.

Across the Bay Area, one of the few places to get the swine flu vaccine is in Sonoma County.

Petaluma, Calif.-based laser company Raydiance Corp. announced it has made a major breakthrough in manufacturing a wide variety of bioabsorbable materials with precise, micron-resolution feature sizes and with no heat-affected zones.

The Sonoma County Department of Public Health is offering H1N1 flu vaccinations in Windsor and Petaluma on Saturday to priority groups.

An ordinance adopted Monday by the Petaluma City Council now makes it a requirement that anyone caring for a feral cat colony must be affiliated with a nonprofit animal rescue group.

Chico State University police officers haven't abandoned their patrol cars just yet, but they'll be doing much of their traveling on two wheels from now on, rather than four.

Petaluma police have arrested six suspects in a two-day sting targeting massage parlors allegedly conducting prostitution activities.

Petaluma has no shortage of places for bros to hang out and get wasted, but the newly opened Tap's, in the former Petaluma Hotel courtyard looks like it could be a step above McNear's and maybe even Dempsey's . They've got more than 30 beers on tap and a bunch of specialty hot dogs, including a fried-bacon option.

Media Coordinator, Terry Menshek - 565-3098 Media Spokesperson, Assistant District Attorney Christine Cook District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua announced today that the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has proclaimed October as Domestic Violence Awareness month.