SF News California Forever Group Moves to Join Forces With Suisun City, Buy Downtown Properties We heard back in January that the billionaire-backed group hoping to build a new utopian city in Solano County was pivoting and hoping to get their land annexed by the existing town of Suisun City. Will this plan work out better than their first one?
SF News Convicted Killer Gets Life Sentence for 1982 Murder of Vacaville 14-Year-Old The story of a murder that happened 42 years ago just had its closing chapter written, as the killer of Vacaville teen De Anna Lynn Johnson got a life sentence, even though he’s already serving a life sentence for the murder of another woman.
SF Politics Trump Administration Now Looking Into Building Immigrant Detention Camp In Solano County As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
SF News Sole Surviving Witness In First Zizian Murder Case Is Infirm, Has Memory Lapses In Day of Testimony The elderly man who is the sole surviving witness to the November 2022 stabbing of Vallejo resident Curtis Lind — though he only witnessed the aftermath of the stabbing — gave a day of testimony Tuesday in Solano County.
SF News Accused Murder Suspect and Zizian Cult Member Accuses Jailers of 'Detransitioning' Her In Court Outburst One of the suspected cult members who is set to stand trial for the attempted murder of Curtis Lind and the murder of fellow Zizian Emma Borhanian in 2022, Alexander "Somni" Leatham, had another outburst in a court appearance Tuesday.
SF News Former Napa and Benicia Elementary School Teacher Faces Trial on Child Molestation Charges A former Napa elementary school teacher who’d beaten the rap on some 2007 child sexual abuse charges is now somehow facing more felony counts for lewd acts with children under 14 in Benicia, and a judge has ruled he’ll stand trial.
SF News Suspect and Possible Cult Member Makes Court Appearance In Vallejo Killing as Further Links Revealed to Other Murders We've only just begun to see the unraveling of the strange case of the Zizians, as we'll call them for now, a purported "death cult" with links to the rationalist movement, whose alleged activities the last two years have led to a total of six deaths to date.
SF News California Forever Sees New Way to Get Around Voter Approval For Their Solano County City-From-Scratch Sensing that public opinion was not going their way last year, and facing legal fights on several fronts, a billionaire-backed effort to build a new utopian city from farmland in eastern Solano County may head down a new path.
SF News Invasive, 20-Pound ‘Swamp Rat’ Rodents Spreading Across Bay Area, Definitely Pose a Threat Rodents of unusual size are no longer just something from the movies. These swamp rats known as nutria are a scourge spreading across Contra Costa and Solano counties, and they’re a risk to our crops, livestock, and water supply.
SF News Billionaire-Backed Group, California Forever, Is Withdrawing Their Ballot Measure After Damning Solano County Report Heh. Four months ahead of the November election, and following a damning report by Solano County staff, California Forever is pulling their ballot initiative to rezone an eastern swath of the county so they can build their utopian "city of yesterday."
SF Politics In Latest PR Effort, California Forever Opens Healthcare Clinic In Rio Vista As they attempt to win over hearts and minds to their plan to build a new city in eastern Solano County, the group California Forever has just pledged to bolster healthcare access in the county.
SF Politics Solano Land Trust Tells Voters to Vote 'No' on California Forever Ballot Measure The influential environmental group Solano Land Trust has registered its formal opposition to the California Forever proposal for building a new city in Solano County on some dry farmland east of Fairfield.
SF News Trial Underway for Vacaville Mormon Bishop Accused of Sexually Abusing Adopted Daughter A former attorney and Mormon bishop in Vacaville is on trial for the sexual abuse of his then-11-year-old adopted daughter, and other church associates are giving some pretty damning testimony on the witness stand.
SF News ‘California Forever’ Outfit Claims They Have Enough Signatures to Make Solano County Ballot The tech billionaire class will be popping more Champagne than usual this week, as they appear to have enough signatures to get their utopia thingy “California Forever” on the November ballot in Solano County.
SF News 'California Forever' City Plan In Solano County Isn't Polling Well A new poll suggests that California Forever has a major uphill climb to get a ballot measure passed this November that will allow their new city-from-scratch project to move forward.
SF News 11 Anti-War Protestors Who Blocked Travis Air Force Base Entrances on Friday Arrested A group of protesters tried to block people from entering Travis Air Force Base in Solano County early Friday morning until police showed up and arrested them.
SF News California Forever Puts Out First TV Ad, Which Is Predictably Short on Specifics The first TV spot for the campaign to get a new city-from-scratch built on Solano County farmland in the coming years has hit the airwaves, and much like the website for the project, it touts big plans and promises for housing and jobs.
SF News California Forever Releases Aerial Rendering of Its Proposed, Utopian 'City of Yesterday' There was nothing on the ballot Tuesday in Solano County about the proposed new town/development that's being proposed by a cabal of Silicon Valley billionaires. But the group, called California Forever, did just release a new rendering.
SF News Alleged SF Sunglass Shop Thief Nabbed in Hawaii Faces Charges; Vacaville Sunglass Hut Burglar Convicted Some serious shade is coming down on two alleged sunglass shop thieves who've made headlines; as the SF woman was arrested getting off a plane in Hawaii has been extradited back, while a Solano County jury convicted a woman who pulled a $40,000 Sunglass Hut heist.
SF News Congressman Says His Opposition Is 'Even Stronger Now' to California Forever Development Plan After Ballot Filing Two local Congressmen are continuing to express their concern and extreme displeasure over the proposed California Forever "new city" plan in Solano County, which continues to take shape as it heads for its first hurdle at the ballot box.
SF News 'California Forever' Billionaire Group Begins Ballot Initiative Effort to Create New City In Solano County However misguided it may be, the proposal to build a new city out of whole cloth on some agricultural land in Solano County, east of Vallejo, is likely headed to the November ballot, and the signature-gathering effort officially launched Wednesday.
SF News Vallejo Couple Finally Going to Trial for Alleged 2018 Murder-Robbery, Six Years After Crime Occurred The wheels of justice have moved stunningly slowly in the case of a man found dead in a Vallejo hotel room in 2018, but the pair accused of killing and robbing him finally has a trial date set that will begin more than six years after the killing itself.
Arts & Entertainment North Bay Librarian Gains Social Media Fame, National Recognition for Spreading 'Library Joy' A 33-year-old librarian in Solano County has gained TikTok and Instagram notoriety for his cheerful videos about "library kids," the pleasures of books, and "library joy."
SF News Sierra Club Comes Out Swinging About Proposed New City Backed by Billionaires In Solano County The Solano County chapter of the Sierra Club held a press conference Tuesday to express their opposition to a proposed plan, revealed in August, to build a new city east of Fairfield — a project that currently has the name California Forever.
SF News 'California Forever' Group Planning New Utopian City In Solano County Faces First Legal Drama There is likely to be plenty of litigation ahead for the outfit funded by a group of tech billionaires known as Flannery Associates, as they navigate the nearly uncharted waters of trying to build a city out of whole cloth in hyper-political, 21st Century California.
