SF News Woman Killed by Boyfriend In Murder-Suicide Identified as Sonoma County Park Ranger A 38-year-old woman who was killed last week in Sonoma County has been identified as a local park ranger who was living in ranger housing outside Santa Rosa.
SF News Feud Between Sonoma County Tribes Continues With Lawsuit Filed Over Proposed Casino Resort A yearslong feud between two Native American tribes in the North Bay over a proposed casino outside Santa Rosa has escalated with a lawsuit.
SF News Two People Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide In Sonoma County A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy made a gruesome discovery Wednesday when performing a welfare check at a home east of Santa Rosa.
SF News Sonoma Sheriff Being Questioned About Case In Which Murder Suspect Was Let Go By Deputies Hours Before Killing On Monday we learned of a brutal murder that occurred in rural Sonoma County, near Petaluma, involving a suspect who was screaming outside a home and trying to force his way inside. Hours earlier, Sonoma County deputies had contact with the man, who was being kicked out of a high-end hotel.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Arrested for Burglary and Homicide in Rural Sonoma County A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and murdering someone in Sonoma County; a coalition of unions is protesting proposed Oakland budget cuts; and now carrots are being recalled due to E.coli contamination.
SF News One Person Fatally Shot In or Around Historic Roadside Bar In Sonoma County A person was shot and killed Sunday afternoon at Ernie's Tin Bar, a small, 101-year-old bar at a crossroads in rural Sonoma County, just outside Petaluma, famous for its prohibition of using cellphones inside.
SF News A New Group of Silicon Valley Techies Are Now Trying to Build A North Bay Village The project, named Esmeralda, says it is completely separate from the similar "California Forever" proposal from Solano County.
SF News 20-Year-Old Sonoma County Man Charged With Murder Following High-Speed Rohnert Park Crash The man arrested over the weekend after a series of crashes in Sonoma County that authorities attributed to road rage, one of them fatal, has now been charged with murder and hit-and-run, the district attorney confirms.
SF News 40-Acre Cougar Fire Next to Sonoma Raceway Quickly Put Out Sunday An updated status report from Cal Fire's webpage stated that the fire's forward progress was halted about an hour after it initially started, at 2:20 pm, and that the fire crew eventually swelled to 40 at some point during the blaze.
SF News 31-Year-Old Single Mother Killed by Suspected Five-Time DUI Driver In Santa Rosa A man with four previous DUI charges just picked up a fifth in Santa Rosa, and this one took the life of a 31-year-old mother who worked as a juvenile corrections officer.
SF News Two Alaska Residents Arrested With a Whole Lot of Meth and Fentanyl In Sonoma County It was late Sunday night when a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy came upon a pickup truck with a towing trailer pulled over on a roadside in Petaluma with the driver slumped over the wheel.
SF News Arrest Made in Brutal 1982 Cold Case Murder and Rape of a 13-Year-Old Girl in Cloverdale The ruthless killing of 13-year-old Sarah Ann Geer was a case that had gone cold for 42 years, but Cloverdale police used genetic tests to finally determine and arrest a 62-year-old suspect.
SF News Two Men Die By Drowning In Russian River In Four-Day Span Beware the deceptively strong underwater currents in the Russian River, because two young men have drowned in recent days while just trying to enjoy themselves and cool off in the river's waters.
SF News Point Fire In Sonoma County Grows to 1,100 Acres as Seven Major Wildfires Burn Across the State Cal Fire firefighters are contending with multiple large wildfires across the state that all broke out over the weekend, and it seems like fire season is already in full swing, though it's still mid-June.
SF News Man Ejected From Vehicle Located on Remote Sonoma County Cliff After Car's Crash Alert A seriously injured driver was rescued Sunday after his vehicle's crash-alert system notified authorities of the location of his car, which had gone off a cliff on the Sonoma County coast.
SF News Sonoma County Man Arrested After Allegedly Stealing Ambulance, Leading Cops on Chase With EMT Stuck In Back Well this sounds pretty meth-y. A Sonoma County man who had asked police to get him an ambulance because he was having a panic attack allegedly ended up stealing that ambulance and taking it for a crazed trip through Santa Rosa.
SF News [Update] Body of Boy Swept Away In Russian River Has Been Found A teenager who has been missing since Thursday afternoon after being swept up by the rushing Russian River in Sonoma County has been found dead.
SF News Thousands of Gallons of Wastewater Spills From Treatment Plant Into Russian River A significant spill of partially treated wastewater, likely storm-related, happened in Sonoma County last weekend, but officials seem to be downplaying the matter.
SF News Sonoma Sheriff's Deputies Save Woman Drowning in Russian River, She Assaults Them Anyway A Russian River rescue mission went bizarrely Sunday, as a woman trapped in the river got violent with the very sheriff’s deputies and medical personnel who saved her life.
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.
