In the world of the Grateful Dead, Bob Drobatz is known as the Starburst Commander.

After nearly three weeks and 20 rescue attempts, an adult male California sea lion with a tight fishing line entanglement around his neck and mouth was released back to the ocean at Rodeo Beach north of San Francisco today by The Marine Mammal Center.

Active members of a group called Bay Area Open Carry gather outside the Buckhorn Grille on Locust Street in Walnut Creek, Calif.

A California sea lion rescued at Moss Landing Harbor in late January was released Friday at Rodeo Beach in Marin County after recovering from injuries caused by a deeply embedded fishing line, a Marine Mammal Center spokesman said.

Maria Maria La Cantina, Carlos Santana's Mill Valley restaurant, is the place to be for a benefit for the Artsboretum Project, a nonprofit that is launching a campaign to preserve the shuttered Plant Studios in Sausalito.

A 48-foot yacht caught fire Thursday evening at a Sausalito marina, drawing a response from Southern Marin and Tiburon fire boats and the U.S. Coast Guard.

As she prepares to go on a book tour promoting her debut memoir, "Hold Me Tight & Tango Me Home," Marin writer Maria Finn is bracing herself emotionally, steeling herself against the pain of re-opening a psychic wound that dancing has only begun to heal.

Share + Feb 3, 2010 10:01 am US/Pacific SAUSALITO A little more than a monthA after she was spotted severely injured at Pier 39, Abagnale the sea lion has recovered and is going to be released back into the ocean, Marine Mammal Center officials said Wednesday.

There's good news for Abagnale the Sea Lion. Officials at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito says the animal, who was rescued from Moss Landing after fishing line got wrapped around his head, is doing well and eating 20 pounds of herring a day.

A fundraising dinner and auction at Cavallo Point in Sausalito is being held Sunday to raise money to help earthquake victims in Haiti, the event organizer said.

A Mill Valley couple who ran a Sausalito yacht brokerage pleaded guilty in Marin County Superior Court on Thursday to embezzlement and grand theft charges.

A Mill Valley couple pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from clients at their yacht brokerage.

Share + Comments Jan 27, 2010 11:39 pm US/Pacific Reporting Neda Iranpour SAUSALITO, Calif.

One of the visually attractive cities in the world--and world famous for it--has messed on itself for the past two years and has within the first few weeks of this New Year, done so again.

The longer you've been married, the more you will save on Valentine's Day at Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa in Sausalito.

An injured sea lion that was first spotted New Year's Day on Pier 39 in San Francisco has finally been rescued.

Sausalito is facing a $75,000 fine for spilling 31,000 gallons of sewage that made its way down a creek and into Richardson Bay.

Sewage spills happen. When they do they have to be cleaned up. Somebody's got to do it, but when you are that somebody, you probably start to rethink your career choice.

SAUSALITO, Calif. & BASEL, Switzerland -- -- Equilibrium , a software and hosted services company that specializes in helping enterprise clients of all sizes to manage, monetize and mobilize content, announced the opening of a sales and support office in Basel, Switzerland, and named Peer Blumenschein as Managing Director of European Sales.

About 40,000 gallons of diluted raw sewage spilled into Richardson Bay this week, but Sausalito-Marin City Sanitation District officials say they are not to blame.