San Rafael News

Everybody calls Robert Thompson Santa Claus. It's not hard to see why: even without the gray beard and the red fur cap, Thompson is the sort of person who greets everyone with a smile and a handshake, even if he has to keep one hand on his walker while doing so.

Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 7:21 p.m. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - San Rafael police are asking for the public's help in finding two especially young robbers in a liquor store heist.

Falkirk Cultural Center presents "Patricia Ancona, Kay Russell, Helen Stanley: Paintings and Drawings" Jan.

Marin Sanitary Service will break ground Monday, Dec. 21, on an expansion project to double the operational capacity of its Household Hazardous Waste Center in San Rafael.

Managers of the San Rafael Rock Quarry are seeking the OK from Marin County officials to work through the weekend supplying large pieces of rock to save an apartment building in Pacifica in danger of sliding into the ocean.

Marin County public health officials said Monday they were unsure what has caused 15 people at the Drake Terrace Retirement Community in Terra Linda to become ill since late last week.

More than 500 traffic tickets were issued in the first month with the help of San Rafael's tireless red-light cameras.

Two brothers from San Rafael remained hospitalized Sunday night following a head-on crash in San Francisco that killed the other driver.

A San Rafael school crossing guard on her way to work was arrested for DUI on Thursday after running into a woman carrying a toddler in a crosswalk.

What the economy takes away, it gives back. The Inland Empire's employment base added 5,600 workers in November, the second consecutive month the region actually created jobs instead of losing them.

A school crossing guard in San Rafael was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk on her way to work and running into a woman carrying a toddler, police said.

Marin holiday house tour Some of us can get by on a simple, festive string of lights on the porch, or a light-filled tree in the yard.

The San Rafael Planning Commission recommended approval this week of a new-and-improved green-building ordinance that now will be shopped around to all Marin's cities and towns.

The San Rafael Planning Commission on Tuesday granted permission to the Marin History Museum Music Center to set up shop in a one-story building at 850 Fourth St.

Metallica frontman James Hetfield is donating 330 acres overlooking California's Lucas Valley for preservation as farmland.

When the organizers of the UNICEF Children's Climate Forum asked the CEO of a San Rafael-based drip irrigation company to be a sponsor for their conference, they were startled - and pleased - to discover that he was a 17-year-old high school student.

San Rafael matched a record low on Dec. 8 with a morning temperature of 28 degrees--it's been 37 years since temps dropped to that level.

San Rafael police officers, firefighters and supporters packed the San Rafael City Council chambers Tuesday to show they don't like talk that public-safety workers might be vulnerable to layoffs to cope with the city's ever-widening budget gap.

Four Marin groups are calling on everyone to come down and participate in a candlelight vigil to mark Marin's participation in the effort to promote climate change awareness.

The annual San Rafael lighted boat parade on the Canal is set to begin at 6 p.m. Saturday.