Petaluma News

A Petaluma woman suspected of going through classrooms at her son's grade school and stealing purses from two teachers was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of charging $1,200 on a stolen credit card and attempting to use stolen cards at two local supermarkets, police said.

The Queen of England celebrates her Diamond Jubilee this weekend, capping 60 years on the throne.

Despite occasional calls on the city to renew the lease on the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, City Manager John Brown says it's too early to discuss the issue and that renewing the lease now prevents the city from developing the site once the contract expires in 11 years, according to an article in Thursday's Argus Courier.

A doggy door bandit struck again Tuesday night, hitting a home off Crinella Drive around 11pm and running off with an expensive watch and cash.

Water: A typical resident who now pays $23.73 every two months would pay $29.66 for 2012-2013; $36.19 for 2013-2014; $42.70 for 2014-2015; and $49.11 for 2015-2016. Sewer: The typical rate of $69.83 every two months would be $78.21 for 2012-2013; $87.59 for 2013-2014; $98.11 for 2014-2015; and $109.88 for 2015-2016. The increases, the first since ... (more)

A If Memorial Day be the sounding bell of summer, then Sonoma County swings wide the door with a menagerie of options for your Tuesday night fix.

A courthouse sting targeting drivers under court order prohibiting them from getting behind the wheel of a car found that more than half did so anyway and were arrested Tuesday.

Caltrans will put in frontage roads along Highway 101 between north Novato and San Antonio Road in Petaluma, giving pedestrians and cyclists direct access between the two cities.

For some it was a holiday, for others a barbecue, for many a chance to honor the war dead.

Q The best billboards are on the highways in Hawaii. Why, you ask? There are none.

The driver in a solo vehicle accident this morning on Southbound Highway 101 has died, probably as the result of a heart attack.

A It's not easy being green - every battle is against the odds. Such is one lesson from A Fierce Green Fire , a film narrated by Robert Redford, that will be screening in Petaluma on Wednesday, May 30, at the Sunflower Center .

K9 Rico is a 7-year-old Holland-born Belgian Malinois. He works with Officer Mike Page, who has had Rico since late 2006.

The CHP reported Tuesday that a man who crashed his car while driving on Highway 101 in Petaluma early Tuesday later died.

Last Thursday we asked on our Facebook page your recommendations for Best Burger in town.

Borrowing money to pay for improvements to Sebastopol's water and sewer system is not cost-effective and would raise the price of the project by $2.2 million, according to a city study.

Priscilla L. Kemmerle, a devoted wife, matriarch and church member who crocheted countless warm blankets and sang in the St.

Three teens were arrested Sunday in connection with what police described as the stabbing of a rival gang member in east Petaluma.

Police Monday identified a motorcyclist and his rider killed over the weekend when they crashed into a guardrail as Richard Wilton II, 36, of Vallejo and Michael "Seamus" Taylor, 31, of Petaluma.

A A man was injured in an apparent gang-related stabbing in Petaluma on Sunday afternoon, police said.