Sonoma News

Voters can turn in their vote-by-mail ballots Saturday at special drop-off centers in designated public buildings around Sonoma County in advance of the June 5 primary election.

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, associate professor of Chicano studies at UC Davis, has written a book about the now-closed Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility.

Cynthia Carr and the Carrtunes come to Andrews Hall for a special night of fun and dancing.

Last month I had the opportunity to explore the wines of Sonoma here in Los Angeles.

The L.A. band Beachwood Sparks brings its psychedelic guitar riffs and Western twang to Sonoma for the third annual H uichica Music Festival , Saturday, June 2, at the Gundlach Bundschu Winery.

A The results from this week's Readers' Choice are in : Happy Dog is the best place for a burger in Sonoma.

There are three supervisorial races in Sonoma County on Tuesday'sA primary election ballot, but the attention has focused on the six candidatesA running for the 1st District seat now held by Supervisor Valerie Brown, who is retiring.

A Growing up in Queens, Ken Brown's parents exposed him to theater, opera, books, and a deep sense of community and family.

For those who abide by the mantra "two wheels good, four wheels bad," the world isn't always a friendly place.

People of the Bay Area have long been proponents of supporting local businesses and eating local foods, but there's one delicacy native to Northern California that is not only delicious but good for you too, abalone.

Ascentia Wine Estates, a Healdsburg company established in 2008 with ambitions to restore local ownership to some of Sonoma County's most prominent wineries, is being sold off in pieces.

When he goes out to meet friends for coffee or visit with family in Calistoga, Austin Ridge now brings a cane or uses a wheelchair, depending on how he feels.

The Sonoma County coroner's office has identified the Sonoma woman who was found dead in a Sonoma field Wednesday afternoon as 51-year-old Donna Spellman.

Retired school principal Bruce Marhenke was once a man of speed. He recalls the thrill of hitting at least 100 miles per hour in his MG-TD sports car in Golden Gate Park as tens of thousands of spectators lined the roadway.

Two Sonoma eighth-graders who disappeared during a school field trip two days ago are safe and sound in Fresno after being removed from a bus headed to Los Angeles, a family member said Thursday afternoon.

Vintner, philanthropist, and music artist manager Bruce Cohn is very pleased to announce that tickets are on sale June 1 for the 26th Annual B.R. Cohn Charity Events Fall Music Festival, Gala Charity Auction Dinner, and the Celebrity Golf Classic.

Sonoma police responded to an open field near Fourth Street West and West MacArthur Street on reports of a body that was found by a resident as he walked through the field, sheriff's officials said.

Producing a fundraiser for Austin Ridge, the Sonoma man injured in an unsolved beating last month are, from left, Ashley Amormino, Laila Paquette, Taty Marrow and Kaprice Kelsay, who is Austin's cousin.

A Sonoma County has some of the largest expanses of open space in the bay area - chocking in at 171,200 acres of undeveloped land.

Healdsburg is joining a growing number of cities looking for a sales tax increase to help salvage their teetering budgets.