SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Is Getting Its First Shake Shack Next Week As Shake Shack continues its California expansion, the first outpost of the burger chain is opening in Santa Rosa on February 29.
SF News Female Bicyclist Dies After Collision With Fallen Tree In Sonoma County A woman died Monday afternoon in a bicycle accident in rural West Sonoma County, about six miles north of Timber Cove and in a northern section of Cazadero, after colliding with a downed tree.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma Teens Caught Stealing Cow-Crossing Sign, Others A judge has ruled that DA Pamela Price has to recuse herself from prosecuting a former employee; the Valencia bike lane saw a significant drop in usage; and some Sonoma County teens got caught stealing road signs, because they got stuck in some mud.
SF News It’s a ‘Banner Year for Baby Newts’ as Newt Crossing Season is in Full Swing in Bay Area Berkeley is the kind of city where they will shut down roads to create a safe newt crossing zone, and the newt enthusiasts’ efforts may be paying off, as people say they’re seeing “twice the number of baby newts this year than we had last year.”
SF News Arrest Made, Severed Head Found In Gruesome Santa Rosa Murder; Victim Was Suspect's Grandmother The suspect in last week's gruesome murder and beheading in Santa Rosa has been found and arrested, and we now know the identity of the victim.
SF News Infamous, Secretive All-Male Bohemian Grove Retreat Now Underway In Sonoma County Fire up your conspiracy theories, as the men-only rich guy retreat Bohemian Grove is now happening up in Sonoma. We don't know if Clarence Thomas went there, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reportedly did.
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff's Helicopter Rescues Teen With Rattlesnake Bite We haven't heard about too many rattlesnake incidents around the Bay so far this year. But there are plenty of the venomous snakes up in the North Bay, and a 13-year-old boy had an encounter with one over the weekend.
SF News Wildfire Season Already? Four Fires This Weekend In Bay Area and Beyond Spur Concerns This weekend's Snell Fire in Napa County is now 100% contained after burning 103 acres, but despite this year’s rainy winter, a weekend of several NorCal fires has officials warning that precautions are still very much necessary.
SF News Santa Rosa Woman Testifies In Pig’s Blood Vandalism Case Allegedly Spurred By George Floyd Testimony The trial is underway in a bizarre 2021 case of pig’s blood (and a severed pig’s head!) being smeared on the home of a former Santa Rosa police officer who testified in favor of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd trial.
SF News Sea Otter Reintroduction Plan Gains Momentum in Bay Area Efforts to repopulate the Bay with sea otters and help the coastal kelp forest gain support in Sonoma County, although local fishers and sharks could stand in the way.
SF News Sonoma County Sees 22% Drop In Homelessness In Latest Count The results of Sonoma County's point-in-time homeless count from January have just been released, and the county says it has 22 percent fewer people experiencing homelessness compared to the previous year.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested After Alleged Armed Robbery at Santa Rosa Safeway, High-Speed Chase Down 101 Three men in their 20s surrendered to police after leading them on a high-speed chase for miles down Highway 101 Thursday night, following an alleged armed robbery at a Safeway store in Santa
SF News Two More Sonoma County Hells Angels Sentenced to Prison on Racketeering Charges A five-year-long federal murder investigation into the Sonoma County Hells Angels is also prosecuting several Angels on other lesser charges, like the two just sentenced for a series of beatings and the robbery of a marijuana grow.
Arts & Entertainment The North Bay’s Go-To Online Movie Schedule Guides are Shutting Down Today The 28-year run of SonomaMovies.com, and its sister site NorthBayMovies.com, will come to an end today, as the site’s sole proprietor is calling it quits on aggregating movie showtimes for a five-county, 160-mile stretch of Northern California.
SF News Santa Rosa Police Arrest At Least Seven Suspects for July Sideshow, Still Looking To Arrest More Sideshows in Sonoma County? Indeed there was a big one there in early July, and Santa Rosa police just issued 14 arrest warrants, plus their searches have turned up nearly a dozen firearms and thousands of ammunition rounds.
SF News 43-Year-Old Woman Found Dead In Submerged Car Near River Road In Sonoma County A Ukiah woman who had called 911 for help when her car became stuck in floodwaters Tuesday morning in Sonoma County was found dead on Wednesday after rescuers could not locate the vehicle earlier.
SF News Family of Sonoma County Toddler Killed By Fallen Redwood Tree Speaks Out We now have a statement from the grandmother of two-year-old Aeon Tocchini, who was crushed by a fallen redwood tree in Wednesday’s storms. The family has not only lost a son, but their home is also physically destroyed.
SF News Father and Young Son Killed In Remote Sonoma County Crash Near Cazadero A father of three and one of his young sons died in a crash Monday evening when the Jeep they were traveling in went off a dirt road on private property in Sonoma County, and three others, including two children, were injured in an effort to rescue them.
SF News Two Killed, Three Injured In Remote Sonoma County Crash Down 300-Foot Ravine Two adults were killed and three people were injured Monday night, including two children, when a Jeep carrying the group plummeted 300 feet down a ravine off a dirt road near Cazadero, in west Sonoma County.
SF News Sonoma County Mountain Lion Straight Up Walks Into Woman’s Home, Drags Out Her Dog The dog survived, but the mountain lion was tracked down and euthanized, after an incident last weekend where the mountain lion casually walked into a Sonoma County home and picked a fight with the dog.
SF News Sonoma County Man Frequently Using Backyard as Shooting Range, Neighbors On Nextdoor Up In Arms One man near Sebastopol has installed a private shooting range on his property, and is making extensive and very loud use of it, and furious neighbors have tried enlisting the Sheriff’s Office, county supervisors, and attorneys, all to no avail.
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputies Shot and Killed Someone in Geyserville Friday Morning Information is scarce, and we don’t even know if the victim was a suspect, but Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputies shot someone fatally in an incident near Franz Creek Ranch Friday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Doing Series of North Bay Gigs This Week, LGBTQ Activists May Protest Controversy-courting comedian Dave Chappelle is doing more shows in the Bay Area this week, and hosting three consecutive nights of events at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa, despite being persona non grata with much of the LGBTQ community at this point.
SF News Confederate Flags Popped Up at Sonoma Raceway This Weekend, Controversy Ensues The Confederate flag has been banned from Sonoma Raceway since 2018, but a couple campers flew the flag this weekend anyway, and the NAACP Santa Rosa-Sonoma County branch says the response was not particularly speedy.
SF News Truck Fire In Sonoma County Sparks One-Acre Wildfire; Firefighters Quickly Contain It Due to Favorable Conditions A vehicle fire in Cloverdale caused a bit of panic Wednesday afternoon as Sonoma County braces for another dramatic fire season still ahead.
