Santa Rosa News

After two weeks of conferring with city councils throughout Sonoma County, county officials have managed to recruit but one city in launching a new power agency.

Measures aimed at creating new taxes on Californians were held by the Senate Appropriations Committee today, making it extremely unlikely that taxes on cigarettes, soda, strip clubs, plastic bags or oil extraction will become law this year.

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Some 640 union nurses at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital said they would go on strike for a fourth time in less than a year, as the St.

U.S. cyclist Tejay Van Garden held on to his overall lead during the Livermore to Mt.

A Mustang driver tried to outrun a pursuing Sonoma County sheriff's deputy early Wednesday, reaching up to 110 mph on Stony Point Road and weaving around morning commute traffic, according to a Sonoma County sheriff's official.

Jim Leddy, Sonoma County's community and government affairs manager, has been hired by Mono County as its top administrative officer.

Meet new friends at the largest annual gathering of singles in the North Bay! $20/door. Adults of all ages welcome.

'Out of Order' opens and closes on Saturday, May 25, at the former Santa Rosa Printing building.

Sonoma County's two largest cities appeared headed down divergent energy paths Tuesday, with Santa Rosa vowing to move swiftly toward a decision on whether to join the Sonoma Clean Power Authority the day after Petaluma delayed a decision until at least September.

Warm weather early in the year means rattlesnakes are more active then usual following April's breeding season, and local dogs could be bearing the brunt of it, animal experts said.

Santa Rosa is rolling out a web page and mobile phone application called MySantaRosa that make it easier for residents to point out a problem, get answers to Now armed only with a smartphone, residents will be able to take a photo of a problem, email it to City Hall and then track how long it takes the city to fix it.

The unclaimed remains of 35 military veterans and two military wives have been given formal military burials in Northern California.

A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday.

Just months after California voters passed Proposition 30 to stave off education cuts, a push is underway to ensure that the next stream of higher-education funding flows out of the ground.

Young ladies from Santa Rosa Gymnastics Center cartwheeled down Fourth Street to the tunes of the Beach Boys as a nimble man on the group's moving float levitated on parallel bars.

The stage started in Murrieta Monday, May 13, and passed through the San Jacinto Valley and over the San Jacinto for a finish in Palm Springs.

Raise a glass to the final days of American Craft Beer Week by heading to one of Sonoma County's newest gastropubs: Belly Left Coast Kitchen & Taproom or Heritage Public House .

Compared to Alfred Hitchcock 's better-known films, Shadow of a Doubt may not claim as much suspense or plot perfection, but as an overall execution of storytelling, it's as effective as it gets.

The Amgen Bike Tour passed by in San Jose on Friday and will end in Santa Rosa on Sunday.