Santa Rosa News

Less than 10 minutes after Treehorn Books in downtown Santa Rosa has opened its doors for the day, a few eager booklovers have already begun to roam the store.

El Coqui is the real deal. El Coqui in Santa Rosa just opened, serving Puerto Rican food that's "la real deal! Yay!" says snarkygirl , who's pretty excited: "we've never had a Puerto Rican restaurant, at least not in the years I've been here." There's tender and flavorful pollo al horno , and darn tasty palomilla encebollado and chuletas .

The fourth and final defendant indicted in connection with a May 1998 gang-related murder pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in Sonoma County Superior Court Wednesday morning.

A private twin-engine plane that began its trip in Santa Rosa crashed late Wednesday afternoon in Arizona, killing all four people aboard.

It turns out a small plane that took off from Charles Schulz / Sonoma County Airport on Wednesday and crashed in Arizona later that day carried a secret payload - some 12 pounds of marijuana and a suitcase full of cash.

To the surprise of few, the Santa Rosa Planning Commission has rejected a proposal for a Lowe's outlet in the southern part of the city.

Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Antolini is struggling to decide whether a Santa Rosa man charged with fatally stabbing and slicing his mother 45 times intentionally inflicted torture.

Authorities say four people are dead after a small plane that left from the Santa Rosa airport crashed shortly after takeoff in Arizona Wednesday afternoon.

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Former City Councilman Lee Pierce, 62, has announced his candidacy for the 7th Assembly District seat held by Noreen Evans, a Democrat who represents Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.

Kari from Santa Rosa, Calif., pays close attention to Judy, a 3-year-old Netherlands dwarf rabbit, and to relaying that information to me.

Officers investigating a burglary in Santa Rosa shot and killed a dog Thursday when it allegedly attacked them during the questioning and eventual arrest of one of the suspects.

Investigators have arrested a 13-year-old Santa Rosa boy in connection with a shooting in a city park earlier this month that police say was likely gang-related. Gang crimes detectives investigated the shooting, which was reported on the east side of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never did I anticipate as a child growing up in Bangor, Wis., that I would end up in California as a wine grape grower with three of our four children being winemakers.

Santa Rosa police are investigating the robbery of the 7-Eleven store on Mission Boulevard early Saturday morning.

A cell phone dropped at the scene of two auto burglaries in west Santa Rosa led to the arrests of three people over the weekend, police said today.

Ten people were arrested for driving without or on a suspended drivera s license during a sting operation outside the Sonoma County courthouse in Santa Rosa on Thursday.

According to CHP Officer Jonathan Sloat, , 26-year-old Jared Rain Forest of Fort Bragg was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital after the 11 a.m. crash east of Olivet Road in unincorporated Sonoma County, Sloat says Forest was driving west on River Road at approximately 50 mph when he turned his attention to a GPS unit on the Honda CBR motorcycle ...

Officials at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve are committing to more than $1 million of improvements, at a time when other parks and open-space areas may be behind padlocked gates in a few months due to budget constraints.

Investigators are searching for a gunman that opened fire in a Santa Rosa park Tuesday night.