Water
Lake Mendocino ends water year 5 feet lower than 2025
Governance
· GOV · 26.10.05
Sonoma County to get $5.5 million for 2017 storm repairs
FEMA approved a $5.5 million reimbursement to Sonoma County for road repairs after the January 2017 winter storms, the county said Oct. 5. The county spent more than $7.3 million on the work.
Water
Lake Mendocino ends water year 5 feet lower than 2025
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
The National Weather Service put the hills of western Sonoma County and the mountains of Sonoma and Napa counties under a heat…
Housing
Fort Bragg delays housing fix as state target nears 5 times
Governance
Santa Rosa holds $11 million in unspent parks tax money
Housing
Napa passes on help for buyers stuck with code violations
Days after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill to give new homeowners time to fix inherited code violations, Napa County staff sketched…
Water
Clear Lake pact takes effect after a split Lake County vote
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
Clearlake Oaks County Water District's five-year rate schedule takes a home's combined water and sewer base bill from $129.11 to $207.63 a…
Water
Clearlake weighs a Clear Lake pact that gained a seventh tribe
Water
Upper Lake wells still pumping past a 2022 state deadline
Fire & Safety
North Bay fuel dryness is headed past the 97th percentile
Bay Area forecasters project Energy Release Component values past the 97th percentile in the North Bay this weekend. No Red Flag Warning…
Governance
Clearlake recruits for a sewer board seat not yet created
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
Sonoma County's 2026 winegrape harvest began July 16, nearly two weeks earlier than any start the county's growers association has documented. The…
Water
Grand jury flagged the pipes in St. Helena. Then a bus hit a hydrant
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
A brush fire this week was the reminder: the state-owned Sonoma Developmental Center campus in Glen Ellen is out of compliance with…
Water
San Pablo Bay floods tonight, and no storm is behind it
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