Marin County News

Mendocino County's unemployment rate dropped again in September to 10.1 percent, down from 10.5 percent in August.

A 47-year-old mother of eight remains behind bars after admitting to embezzling from an elderly Marin County couple.

Privatization of the Novato Sanitary District's $90 million sewage treatment plant will go to voters next year.

Sean Penn's teenage son was reportedly arrested last week at his high school. Sean Penn's teenage son was reportedly arrested last week.

Voters in Marin County Tuesday re-elected 10 of 14 incumbents seeking re-election to nine councils.

A Northern California woman accused of using her 13-year-old son as a designated driver to avoid getting another DUI has pleaded not guilty.

Americans Sarah Haskins and T.J. Tollakson quietly took victories at Sunday's Marin County Triathlon.

Does San Quentin need a new Death Row? Calling it the 'Cadillac Death Row', Assemblymen Jared Huffman voiced his strong opposition at a recent public forum, to plans to build a new $400 million expansion of the Death Row facility on the western grounds of San Quentin State Prison.

Tamalpais firefighters clear a fuel break east of San Rafael to create defensible space around homes in the China Camp area.

Firefighters battle an early morning structure fire at the end of Valley Road in Fairfax.

Wildlife in San Francisco Bay face a new challenge posed by a fuel line spill from the tanker Dubai Star, anchored in San Francisco Bay two miles south of the Bay Bridge Friday Oct.

Nothing about the Marin Municipal Water District storage yard and the run-down wooden pier protruding into San Francisco Bay give any hint of what they are: the site of what may become one of the fiercest water battles in Northern California in decades.

Marin County's planning fees will increase by nearly 60 percent and its building fees will increase more than 150 percent after a unanimous vote by county supervisors Tuesday.

A 21-year-old El Cerrito man was sentenced to 21 years in state prison Wednesday for fatally shooting a San Leandro man riding in a Hell's Angels convoy traveling through Marin County last year.

Medical experts disagreed over the health effects of continued mining at the San Rafael Rock Quarry during a key public hearing on the quarry Tuesday.

The Marin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday declined to reserve the right to reduce its living wage ordinance for people who provide In-Home Support Services to the elderly and disabled, which could cost the county $1.5 million annually.

The California Department of Parks and Recreation on Monday announced that in just a few days, parks across the state will reduce service and adopt other cost-saving measures in order to meet budget cuts.

A large fire raced through a large home in Tiburon in Marin County Wednesday sending up smoke that could be seen for miles.

Media Coordinator, Terry Menshek - 565-3098 Media Spokesperson, Assistant District Attorney Christine Cook District Attorney Stephan Passalacqua announced today that the legal review of the death of jail inmate Ryan Kelsey George, 25, has been completed.

The more than 100 volunteers and interns who are ending their service in the Marin Civic Center Volunteers program were recognized at a ceremony last week by county supervisors.