Sonoma News

Pabst, the World's Ugliest Dog, shows off a look that won't see him competing any time soon in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

The Sonoma Community Center presents another family-fun-filled Fourth of July celebration and parade, this year saluting "Community Traditions." The 10 a.m. parade will honor the families of the Valley who first settled the agricultural land, and whose way of life continues to honor Valley tradition.

The 2009-10 school year will begin with new principals at three Sonoma schools: Melanie Blake at Dunbar Elementary, Karla Conroy at Adele Harrison Middle School, and Esmerelda Sanchez Moseley at Flowery Elementary.

A s playgrounds of the rich, famous and notable go, quiet Sonoma Valley seems nearly in retirement, full of names ripped from yesteryear's headlines and long since senesced into the landscape.

The County of Sonoma, CA has become the fourth Bay Area location to deploy Coulomb ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles.

More than 170 runners participated in the 5k and 10k footraces winding through the Sonoma Developmental Center for the 3rd Annual Sonoma Valley Footrace and Festival on June 20.

Pabst the boxer mix reclined Sunday on his bed in Citrus Heights, a rare moment in a flurry of photo shoots and national press interviews since being named World's Ugliest Dog and taking the title from the dominant breed - the hairless Chinese crested.

It's been two long years since Dawn Goehring of Gatlinburg, Tenn. came home from the World's Ugliest Dog Contest a disappointing second runner up.

A prominent under-bite, scrunched face and floppy ears are the hallmarks of a winner.

C an the mathematical nature of a puzzle ever articulate an artistic expression? Can an emotion or intellectual thought ever manifest itself in a puzzle? The answers may never come in black and white, but the colors and complexities give much to discuss in the exhibition "Intersections: Puzzles as Art," currently at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art ...

Sauvignon Blanc is great a warm-weather wine, especially when seafood and salad are on the table.

It is the weekend of the Ugliest Dog. The world-famous staple of the Sonoma-Marin Fair for 21 years starts Friday at 6 p.m. at the Petaluma Fairgrounds.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors at its regular meeting on Tuesday approved two projects to help alleviate the potential for flooding within City of Sonoma limits.

Mention the name AltaRock Energy to the residents in the Geysers in Sonoma county and you might get some dirty looks, even though it's a clean energy effort.

A former Sonoma Valley youth soccer coach pleaded not guilty Thursday to an amended complaint charging him with 31 counts of committing sexual acts with an underage girl on his traveling team.

STEPHANIE WONG is spending part of the summer before her senior year at El Cerrito High School in the waters off the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A sign advertises for free tastings outside the Jacuzzi Family Vineyards in Sonoma, Calif.

Fire season restrictions on campfires and off-road driving will go into effect June 29 for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma, Napa, Yolo, Colusa, Glenn and Solano counties.

An elderly man with preexisting medical conditions is Sonoma County's first death from probable H1N1 influenza, Public Health Officer Dr.

An 11th suspect has been arrested in a suspected cocaine ring that operated in Marin and Sonoma counties, a county drug investigator said Friday.