Governance
Lake County adopts budget by unfunding vacant county jobs
Water
· WATE · 26.10.03
Lake Mendocino ends water year 5 feet lower than 2025
Lake Sonoma ended the year about a foot higher despite 12 inches less rain. Lake Mendocino closed Water Year 2026 holding about 9,100 acre-feet less than a year earlier, as Eel River imports through…
Governance
Lake County adopts budget by unfunding vacant county jobs
Community
Guerneville ArtWalk brings brooms, photos and street music
Environment
Heat advisory covers Sonoma and Napa hills, not valley towns
Housing
Fort Bragg delays housing fix as state target nears 5 times
Fort Bragg's council again put off fixing a decades-old conflict over apartments in commercial zones, continuing the hearing to Nov. 9 as…
Governance
Santa Rosa holds $11 million in unspent parks tax money
Housing
Napa passes on help for buyers stuck with code violations
Water
Clear Lake pact takes effect after a split Lake County vote
The Clear Lake co-management agreement took effect Sept. 11 with all 23 governments signed. Lake County's announcement called the approval four to…
Wine & Ag
Vintage Premier Dinner at Robert Mondavi Winery
Wine & Ag
At Brassfield, a Lake County estate pushes its chips in while the market pulls back
Water
Clearlake Oaks water, sewer bills head 61% higher by 2031
Water
Clearlake weighs a Clear Lake pact that gained a seventh tribe
The Clearlake City Council takes up the Clear Lake watershed co-management agreement Thursday. The version in front of it lists 23 governments,…
Water
Upper Lake wells still pumping past a 2022 state deadline
Fire & Safety
North Bay fuel dryness is headed past the 97th percentile
Governance
Clearlake recruits for a sewer board seat not yet created
The city is taking applications for a public seat on the Lake County Sanitation District board. Supervisors decide Aug. 18 whether the…
Business
Napa’s tourism economy broke even last year. Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake lost ground
Crime
Santa Rosa man gets 25 to life in wife’s stabbing death
Wine & Ag
Sonoma County’s earliest harvest in decades begins
Water
Grand jury flagged the pipes in St. Helena. Then a bus hit a hydrant
A Napa County civil grand jury said in June that decades of sediment in the St. Helena water mains had never been…
Housing
Lake County lost more than a thousand homes to fire. Nobody will say how many came back.
Governance
Petaluma to vote on rejecting all eight grand jury findings
Fire & Safety
Sonoma Developmental Center still out of fire-code compliance
Water
San Pablo Bay floods tonight, and no storm is behind it
A minor coastal flood advisory runs through Thursday. The National Weather Service says 3 to 6 inches of tonight's high tide is…
Water
Sonoma keeps saying yes to Marin’s Russian River pipeline
Legal
Sonoma County’s sheriff watchdog keeps its subpoena power
Mental Health
Sonoma County jail death follows vote to scrap mental health wing
Water
Who is going to watch the Russian River?
Legal
Napa nursing home sold for $6.25M, fentanyl suit pending
Water
St. Helena: where the town’s water comes from
Legal
Yountville’s French Laundry faces three labor lawsuits
Governance
Sonoma County drops plan to put Measure P update on ballot
Community
Grand jury gives Sonoma’s open-space agency a clean review — and flags a 2031 cliff
Business
Opinion: A quiet scam at the dumps voters own — and pay twice to clean up after
Business
Sonoma’s first Mexican American family winery is in bankruptcy court
Governance
Yountville’s town manager walked into a performance review. He walked out resigned.
Wine & Ag
Cloverdale’s own water plan says the city doesn’t need the Eel River dams its vice mayor is fighting to save
Housing
Appeals court blocks Santa Rosa mobilehome park owners from recouping wildfire-era rent increases
Governance
Petaluma mobile home residents say park owners are running a smear campaign against their advocate