Sonoma County

Bay Area tourism, battered the past year, had a healthy summer launch over the long Memorial Day weekend.

The restrictions announced Wednesday will likely remain in effect until winter rains restore water flows. People violating them could face daily fines of up to $1,000.

Pacific Gas & Electric will pay $43.4 million to government agencies in three Northern California counties to cover bills left behind from wildfires ignited during the past two years by the beleaguered utility's long-neglected power grid.

Santa Rosa held a George Floyd remembrance Tuesday, organized and led by three women who face local vandalism charges in connection with the Derek Chauvin trial.

Sonoma County voters will choose whether to recall District Attorney Jill Ravitch from office on September 14.

A fire Saturday night displaced the residents of a 10-unit apartment building in Santa Rosa, fire officials said.

A fire that began shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon north of Windsor scorched 5-acres of vegetation and destroyed two structures, including a single family residence.

Disgraced Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli resigned Friday, ending a stalemate that dragged on almost two months. His capitulation coincides with a new sexual misconduct claim against him.

A UPS representative said Devon Brooks saw the 86-year-old woman lying in the middle of the street bleeding and ran to help.

The mayor of the California wine country town of Windsor on Friday announced he is resigning, effective immediately, amid multiple accusations of sexual assault.

The Santa Rosa City Council decided Tuesday to ask residents to voluntarily reduce their water consumption by 20 percent.

A growing number of drought stricken California farmers are making the painful decision not to plant as much or anything at all for fear of losing it all.

Police in Petaluma on Friday arrested a man suspected of stealing a vehicle that was left running in the parking lot of a business in the 1300 block of North McDowell Boulevard.

Petaluma police are searching for a man who exposed himself to two girls Tuesday morning. He's described as an Asian man, between the ages of 20 and 30 years, and was last seen wearing sunglasses and royal blue hospital-type scrubs.

Three women have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the one-time Santa Rosa home of a former police officer who testified on behalf of the officer convicted of killing George Floyd by splashing pig blood on it and leaving a pig’s head near the front porch.

Petaluma police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man accused of creating a Molotov cocktail and using it to set fire to a woman and her encampment under a bridge.

Former Sonoma Mayor Rachel Hundley told the San Francisco Chronicle that Foppoli climbed on top of her and exposed himself inside a hotel room six years ago.

Sonoma County sheriff's deputies say an Uber driver who reported three suspects actively stealing a catalytic converter from a Toyota Prius resulted in the arrests of three Oakland men.