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.
SF News DNA Evidence Reopens 1987 Cold Case of Abused and Murdered Solano County Boy, New Suspect Arrested While both the victim and the wrongly accused are now deceased, Solano County prosecutors have identified and arrested a suspect in the 1987 kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy thanks to new DNA evidence.
SF News Developer Behind Imagined New Solano County City Says Billionaire Group Wants to Build a 'City of Yesterday' Confirming fears by planning experts that the billionaire group behind an imagined, utopian city built on arid agricultural land in Solano County will be retrograde in concept, visionary developer Jan Sramek said as much in an interview with KQED today.
SF News Private 50-Acre Island Off Solano County Hits Market For $75 Million Anybody want to build a libertarian utopian community where we can solve poverty and homelessness and addiction where everyone will be thriving every day?
SF News Imagined New City In Solano County Gets Its First Website, With Illustrations The coming-out-from-the-shadows process of Flannery Associates, the VC-backed group hoping to build a new city in Solano County continues with a new, fairly surface-level website for the project, the parent company of which we now know is called California Forever.
SF News Politicos and Developers Agree That Project to Build a New City — or Cities — In Solano County Is Wildly Ambitious We are learning a couple more details about the plan by a group of mega-wealthy Silicon Valley investors to create a whole new city — or potentially more than one town — in Solano County, and hearing more about the political and legal misery that awaits them.
SF News Mystery Group Behind Solano County Land-Grab Revealed to Be Silicon Valley VC Types, Plus Steve Jobs's Widow It didn't take the New York Times very long to get to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Solano County officials for several years, namely the identity of the people behind a massive buy-up of farmland totaling over $800 million.
SF News Mystery Company Buying Up Solano Co. Land Appears to Want to Build New City With 'Tens of Thousands' of Homes The mystery may soon get solved about the massive land-buying spree near Fairfield by one private company, and it may not be so sinister after all.
SF News More Details Emerge In Fatal High-Speed Fairfield Crash; Teen Victims Had Allegedly Been On Crime Spree We already knew that a fatal February 22 100-mph rollover crash in Fairfield involved an allegedly carjacked vehicle, but we’re now learning that the three who died were teenagers whom authorities say had been on a three-day crime spree that left one man shot and paralyzed.
SF News Three Dead After High-Speed Chase In Solano County In Allegedly Stolen Car Three people in a car that was reported as stolen in a Vallejo carjacking Tuesday night were killed in a crash following a high-speed chase with CHP officers on I-80 in Fairfield.
SF News Pantless Carjacking Suspect Arrested After Chase In Solano County A woman wearing no pants who was a suspect in a Marin County carjacking was spotted by authorities in the Delta town of Rio Vista on Friday night, and she gave chase, leading to a multi-agency response.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Napa Wine Brand Caymus Branches Out to Suisun Valley With New ‘Mega Tasting Room’ A little-recognized region just got a big new wine attraction, as the family behind prestigious Napa brand Caymus has opened a luxe outpost in Suisun Valley, with an Apple Store-esque design and a retro cassette-tape room.
SF News Fairfield Vacation Rental Targeted With Threatening Graffiti From Angry Neighbors A home being rented on VRBO in an unincorporated area of Solano County, near Rockville and Fairfield, was the target of some threatening graffiti earlier this month.
SF News Solano County Deputies Accused of Violently Arresting Black Woman For No Reason Body camera footage from two Solano County sheriff's deputies tells a far different story than they told in their official report, and an August 6, 2020 incident on the freeway in Dixon may now get investigated following a federal lawsuit.
SF News Three Arrested In Solano County For Oakland Teen's Murder Authorities in Solano County arrested three people in connection with the death of an Oakland teenager whose body was found Tuesday in a ditch in Dixon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Solano County Health Officer Still A Maverick Solano County Health Officer Dr. Bela Matyas continues to push back on mask mandates, recall candidate Kevin Faulconer also hates mask mandates, and Gov. Newsom has pulled his kids out of a summer camp because it has no mask mandate.
SF News With Bay Area COVID Cases Continuing to Decline, Marin and Solano Counties Reach New Tiers The seven-day average of daily new cases in the Bay Area was 174 over the last week. That is down dramatically from an average of 518 recorded cases each day in the first week of May.
SF News One Wildfire In 2020's LNU Complex Believed to Have Been Arson to Cover Up Murder One of last August's wildfires that merged with others to become the LNU Lightning Complex fires is now believed to have been the result of arson — and the culprit, according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office, is a 29-year-old man who likely set the blaze to cover up an earlier murder.
