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.
SF News Sonoma County Supes Vote to Oppose New Koi Nation Casino, But It's Not Really Up to Them The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday took a largely performative stand against a proposed Native American-owned casino project in Windsor, voting a resolution to oppose the project.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sonoma County Issues Ban on Large Gatherings Sonoma County just became the first local county to issue new lockdown orders, Newsom is proposing a gas tax "holiday," and a San Jose NYE party has been identified as a likely super-spreader event.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Farm ‘Strikes Black Truffle Gold’ After Nearly a Decade of Trying After nine years and millions invested in trying, a family has grown the first-ever black truffle to sprout in Geyserville, and these Sonoma County truffles may soon be a mainstay in northern California fine dining.
SF Politics Ex-Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli Has House Raided by Sonoma County Sheriff's Office The former Windsor mayor who went down in a cloud of sexual assault allegations from nine different women may be hiding at an Italian castle, but his Sonoma County home was relieved of a few items today by sheriff's detectives investigating those allegations.
SF News As Sideshows Spike Across NorCal, Santa Rosa Considers Sanctioning and Legalizing Them A Santa Rosa city councilperson aspires to “make lemonade out of lemons” by permitting sideshows at the county fairgrounds, complete with vending booths and safety barricades.
SF News Northern Sonoma County to Get Another Tribal Casino Members of the Koi Nation, a tribe now federally recognized as part of the southeastern Pomo people of Sonoma County, are planning to build a $600 million hotel and casino in an unincorporated part of the county north of Santa Rosa.
SF News Cal Fire Investigation Comes Up Short on Evidence, Can't Pinpoint Cause of Last Year's Glass Fire The official cause of the Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties last fall will remain undetermined pending the revelation of more conclusive evidence, and Cal Fire investigators say they have not found enough to make a determination.
SF News Biden Sends $37M In Wildfire Mitigation Funds to Sonoma, Promises Raises For Firefighters Sonoma County was one of the first in the country to apply for a grant under a new FEMA program dedicated to pre-disaster mitigation, and President Joe Biden announced today that they would be getting the aid immediately.
SF News COVID Cases Spike In Sonoma County Among the Young and Unvaccinated Just days away from the June 15th lifting of most public health mandates, Sonoma County is seeing a disturbing uptick in COVID cases that could be mirrored elsewhere in the state as the summer goes on.
SF News Newsom Declares Drought Emergency In Sonoma and Mendocino Counties Governor Gavin Newsom went to Lake Mendocino on Wednesday to make an announcement on the state's first effort to address the current drought — and it's starting with a "targeted" drought emergency declaration for two NorCal counties.
SF News 39 Sonoma County Residents Got COVID After Being Vaccinated — But That's OK, Experts Say, and None Were Hospitalized Sonoma County public health officials revealed Tuesday that 39 people in the county have been so-called "breakthrough" COVID cases, meaning that they became infected with the coronavirus more than two weeks after getting their second vaccine shot.
SF News Eight of Nine Bay Area Counties Now In 'Orange' Tier The future is looking cautiously brighter as of Tuesday in the Bay Area, now that Sonoma, Napa, and Contra Costa counties have all graduated to "Orange" tier status, and people can go back to drinking at outdoor bars without ordering food in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF News Shower of Hail in Santa Rosa Leads to Six-Car Collision A hail shower Wednesday morning in Santa Rosa reportedy led to a six-car crash in the western part of the city, and possibly to a big-rig crash involving three vehicles on 101.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Sonoma's Girl & the Fig Closes Temporarily After Dustup Over a Black Lives Matter Mask A Sonoma restaurant was called out by a former employee last month for, as she described it, "forcing her out" of her job because she refused to abide by a face-mask policy that required her not to wear a Black Lives Matter mask she had been wearing.
SF News Father Drowned Trying to Save His Two Children From Rip Current on Sonoma Coast A father drowned and his two children, ages four and seven, remain missing following a riptide incident on a Sonoma County beach on Sunday.
