San Rafael News

Local Public Issues , posted by Editor, Pacific Sun Online, a resident of the San Rafael neighborhood, 4 minutes ago The Marin Municipal Water District has announced that it will host a Conservation Summit, "Conserving Together," on Wednesday, July 8, 2009.

The San Francisco-based Arizmendi bakery has signed a lease in downtown San Rafael and will open a location there in late 2009.

Specialty home furnishings giant Pier 1 Imports plans to shutter its Terra Linda store as soon as it liquidates its inventory, store officials said Thursday.

The director of information systems for Sonoma County has been hired to serve as Marin County's newly created position of director of finance.

A San Rafael man found dead inside a car parked at the Emeryville marina is the city's first homicide victim of 2009.

San Rafael police are looking for three men who stole property including cash and three cell phones from residents of a Canal Street apartment Wednesday night.

Plan accordingly, on Saturday, July 11, 2009 several downtown San Rafael streets will be closed off to traffic from 12 Noon to 10:00 PM for the San Rafael Twilight Criterium Bike Race.

A coroner's inquest is set for Tuesday in the case of a homeless man who died this spring during a police chase on Point San Pedro Road in San Rafael.

A Solano County Superior Court judge has rejected a defense request to split up some of the felony charges in the 57-count complaint that was filed against suspected serial rapist Victor Lamar Davis two years ago.

Budget cuts in San Rafael mean residents filing police reports for minor incidents will have to do so online or on paper forms, rather than directly to an officer.

The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists - including a San Rafael woman - trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to sail to an Israeli port, the military said.

Crews have begun installing hundreds of sound-absorbing panels as part of a $3 million retrofit of the existing Highway 101 soundwall to give area neighbors relief from freeway noise.

A pair of small brush fires in Marinwood on Monday sent a layer of smoke over much of northern San Rafael.

Twenty-year-old Michael Horner liked the deep blue shade and quick-release wheels of his new bike, but appreciated more what it meant for him.

Vietnam veterans who served with Thomas Cincotta 40 years ago stand at attention with Maj.

San Rafael is leading a countywide effort among all cities and the county to adopt similar green-building regulations for new construction and remodeling.

A San Rafael man convicted of four felony counts in connection with the rape of a woman at a Stinson Beach campsite nearly four years ago will be sentenced Aug.

Smile because you'll soon be on 'red light photo enforcement ' camera in San Rafael.

San Rafael police are warning residents about an outbreak of residential burglaries around Point San Pedro Road.

This week's hot dry weather, wildland firefighter training and the county's first significant brush fire of the season signal the beginning of summer - and the fire season in Marin.