Santa Rosa News

A Fairfield man was shot in the leg during an apparent robbery attempt in south Santa Rosa late Friday night, police said.

By 5:30 a.m, there are already enough cars filling southbound Highway 101 toward Petaluma to make Gus Kouninos grateful for the new third lane running over the Cotati Grade.

What is MTA? It's the Mendocino County Transit Authority the public bus service, of course but so much more: the Willits Rider, the CC Rider, Dial-a-Ride and, most recently, E-Ride. I am an 82-year-old disabled senior who lives eight miles north of Willits.

The D'Argenzio family had a dream for their little Santa Rosa strip mall, off a side street in an industrial area within spitting distance of Highway 101.

Five Santa Rosa Middle School students became ill Friday after drinking a substance police believe was tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a chemical derived from marijuana, Santa Rosa police officials said.

A three-hour standoff in northwest Santa Rosa Friday morning ended peacefully when a man who had barricaded himself in an attic surrendered to law enforcement authorities, Santa Rosa police said.

Just when we all thought hope was lost, Ike's Place Santa Rosa is on the fast track toward opening.

Yup. We called it a few months ago. Chick-fil-A is sniffing out the old Burger King space on Mendocino Ave.

Stanley Ginsberg, co-author of "Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking," will appear at Congregation Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa on Feb.

Tourism continues to be a bright spot for Sonoma County's economy, growing 15 percent last year, industry leaders said Thursday at a conference in Santa Rosa.

New Partnership Guidance Workbook to be Released California State Parks' Director Ruth Coleman announced Wednesday, Feb.

A Santa Rosa man who burglarized five homes, two of which he ransacked, while he was out on bail for prior burglaries, was sentenced to 31 years in prison today, according to the Sonoma County district attorney.

A 21-year-old Santa Rosa man who accosted a pregnant woman while she was pushing her toddler in a stroller has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Nearly 100 Santa Rosa city employees took part in an emergency preparedness drill Thursday aimed at ensuring the city can effectively respond to a major disaster.

Fresh Choice is the latest restaurant to bite the dust in Novato.A It closed over the weekend after its lease expired, according to an email from Vintage Oaks Shopping Center A leasing manager Kathy DeOchoa of Crosspoint Realty.

Several cities in Sonoma County are quietly cutting their taxes on most real estate transactions, a tacit acknowledgment that for years they may have been charging too much.

Roe, shrimp pink yarn, and a pink Fish Pill did the trick for Ted Olson of Brookings who landed this nice hatchery steelhead Monday on the Smith River.

A 15-year blueprint to help endangered and threatened fish while maintaining the region's primary water supply is the subject of a meeting scheduled Thursday in Santa Rosa.

Twelve California teens are being honored for the remarkable things they do for others, and two of the 12 are from Santa Rosa.

Ash Rand-McNeil, wearing an earth-tone T-shirt with the image of a skull on the back, stood Wednesday in front of his science project, a bit nervous as he discussed the mechanics of friction on the wheels of a skateboard.