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- Written by: Noah Abrams
The Santa Rosa 16-year-old was found to be justified in using self-defense during the March 1, 2023 classroom fight, and has been released to his parents.
Read more: Teen exonerated for fatal Montgomery High stabbing released
- Written by: Kristen Hwang and Ana B. Ibarra/CalMatters
in October, lawmakers significantly loosened long-standing rules limiting who can be placed in involuntary treatment.
Read more: Governor scolds counties over delays in mental health law
- Written by: Noah Abrams
Miljenko 'Mike' Grgich, born in Croatia, made his way to Napa Valley in 1958, going on to make award winning wine and helping elevate the region as a premier wine making destination.
Read more: Napa winemaker who helped put CA wine on the map dies at 100
- Written by: Marc Albert
The jet stream, typically oscillating toward the arctic and tropics as it traverses the Pacific, has recently become unusually straight.
Read more: Parade of big storms appearing likely to ring in new year
- Cotati drawn into growing mobile home park battle
- Santa Rosa school board ok's SRO and alternative ed programs
- Counseling for the overwhelmed and those in crisis available throughout county in 2024
- Sonoma County moves to make mental health response teams 24/7
- New Sebastopol mayor charting path out of financial hole
- Downtown Petaluma Starbucks joins in nationwide union push
- Petaluma's mobile home rent control challenged as 'unconstitutional'
- Did a Sonoma County deputy OD from touching fentanyl? Experts say no
- Conflict in Gaza causes fallout between local writer and North Bay publication
- Feds offer emergency loans to idled salmon industry
- New regional body formed to transform Potter Valley Project
- Sonoma County officials punt again on adding protections for rural renters
- Flurry of activity on North Bay highways as cash influx lets Caltrans tackle delayed projects
- Payment delays causing crisis for nonprofit and those it serves
- Organic growers see new role in the age of climate change
- Avian flu affects Petaluma poultry flocks
- Animal rights activist sentenced to 90 days in county jail
- Blue power: Will ocean waves be CA's new source of clean energy?
- Cotati joins ranks in tightening rules for mobile home parks
- Will a new bond measure help build or remodel CA schools?
- Newsom announces $300 million for encampment cleanup
- Teen acquitted for fatally stabbing peer at Montgomery High
- Residential therapeutic care coming for local foster kids
- Families await judge's decision in Montgomery High stabbing case
- Many details of ambitious SDC rebuild still up in the air
- Trial over stabbing at Montgomery High School nears end
- PG&E takes first step in dam decommission process
- Many Latino Californians aren't voting; can US Senate candidates motivate them?
- Local writer, activist talks good fire practices with KRCB
- Goodbye fix-it ticket, hello free repair voucher
- SoCo Artistry: Revisiting the radio play in Cloverdale
- Alfresco seating removed from Sebastopol's Main Street
- Sonoma County Artistry: Honoring past generations
- Juggling act is name of the game as fire season winds down
- Lawsuit chugs on as county's groundwater wells keep pumping
- Unique college-in-prison program to get guaranteed Cal State transfer admission
- First atmospheric river of winter arrives with a whimper
- First steps on long road to carbon neutrality
- Sonoma State, CSU state leaders look to reduce tension, hate incidents on campus
- Service, respect and remembrance in Santa Rosa for Veteran's Day
- Internal documents reveal the story behind California’s unemployment crash
- Sonoma Valley High School campus in lockdown Thursday
- Petaluma considers process as ire over hotel plan smolders
- No criminal charges in fatal 2022 shooting by sheriff deputy
- Petaluma police replace tickets with free repair vouchers
- Gleaners toiling to ease local hunger
- Harnessing, but not over-pumping--finding balance in groundwater use
- Petaluma to weigh resuming public comment, following racist disruptions
- Medicaid ‘unwinding’ breeds chaos
- Guilty verdict for animal right activist, five years after protests
- Highway 37 closure set for Saturday night
- State pours millions into Sonoma County for groundwater
- Experts: Upcoming CA gas-blower ban requires money, education, tolerance
- Palestine solidarity rally draws over 100 in Santa Rosa
- New book chronicles 2017 firestorm as it threatened Santa Rosa seniors
- KRCB 2-WAY: Sebastopol Times
- Newsom visit underscores EV reality: China holds keys to battery industry
- Cloverdale looking to move urban growth boundary, with eye on annexation
- Red Flag warning issued for North Bay
- Jury still out in Sonoma County trial of animal rights activist
- SoCo Artistry: Elevating random found objects into works of art
- E-cigs and flavored tobacco banned in unincorporated Sonoma County
- Cal State graduation rates remain flat for second year
- Petaluma PD investigating threats written on high school wall
- Next stop Petaluma - SMART ok's north side train station
- A decade after the killing of Andy Lopez, reflections on trauma, oversight linger
- With wildfires growing, California writes new rules on where to plant shrubs
- Once abundant, Bird scooters fly the Santa Rosa coop
- 4.2 earthquake near Isleton; for many across Bay Area, false alarm
- Investigation continues into fatal Silverado Trail bicyclists accident
- PG&E's plan to bury power lines and prevent wildfires faces opposition because of high rates
- Up-front hotel pricing among the new bills signed by governor
- KRCB Two-Way: Sonoma County company facing record fine for stream pollution
- New constraints on CA sturgeon fishing to save species
- Sonoma County Harvest: Gold Ridge Farms
- Hearing looks into wildfire prevention, home insurance
- Napa County gets new fire administrator, boosts fire mitigation efforts
- Napa County approves residential firearm storage ordinance
- Tentative plans for controlled burn on Mt. Tam this week
- CA set to simplify process of overturning wrongful convictions
- Kaiser workers strike stretches into third day
- Kaiser workers out on strike, including in Sonoma County
- The Bay-Delta ecosystem is collapsing. California just unveiled rival rescue plans
- Petaluma locks in senior-only designation at 5 mobile home parks
- A look at the education rights for youth in the child welfare system
- Hwy 12 in Sonoma Valley reopens after new bridge finished early
- Local harvest hampered by late spring
- With negotiations stalled, teachers near Petaluma preparing for walkout
- SoCo sheriff's deputies used canine bites "too quickly," oversight board finds
- Somber news overshadows local Armenian celebration
- Wildfires can make your California red taste like an ashtray. These scientists want to stop that
- SMART looks at adding railbike operation out of Cloverdale
- Unpacking hate: antisemites, racists use zoom 'bombing' to air views
- California condors sighted in Bay Area
- PG&E in multi-million dollar tax standoff with Sonoma County
- Santa Rosa rolls out home-buying help
- Rain called for Monday across the North Bay
- Fire risk today, smoke expected to clear over weekend
- Turf's up! in Sebastopol
- Petaluma seniors unite for fight to keep their mobile homes
- Sonoma County supervisors end public comment via Zoom after hate-filled rants
- Support for union election grows at Sonoma Mission Inn
- Finding and fixing vulnerabilities; free county service shores up houses against wildfire
- Santa Rosa advances plans to replace downtown parking with housing
- Sales tax increase on March ballot would fund fire-related services
- Sonoma County to replace temp shelters with larger, more permanent ones as homeless count dips
- Petaluma rejects food truck park and marketplace
- Sonoma County buys 3 mobile EV charging stations for local parks
- Honorees spread the message of peace at annual dedication
- Awaited trial of Bay Area animal rights activists begins
- As more children die from fentanyl, some prosecutors are charging their parents with murder
- A look at California's civil grand juries, the last of their kind in the nation
- Second IOLERO audit of K9 uses finds major issues
- Demanding better conditions for captive marine mammals
- Sebastopol joins growing list amending mobilehome rent rules
- Healdsburg inks affordable housing deal
- 30-day closure of Highway 12 near Agua Caliente
- Research finds school funding overall worked as designed for those getting the most money
- Incarcerated Californians can now earn master's degrees
- Out with the old, in with...the New Eel-Russian Facility?
- Heat-related deaths are on the rise in California
- Billionaires want to build a new city in eastern Solano County; they must convince voters first
- Dramatic weather shift, with drizzle possible today, Saturday
- State launches audit of Mendocino County over late reports, alleged inaccuracies
- More major paving work ahead as work on Hwy 12 proceeds
- The Supreme Court slashed water protections - what now?
- Petaluma mobile home park residents rally against closure
- Fires up north, shifting winds, foul local air
- Achievement, access, inclusion and relevancy key as Garcia takes helm at SRJC
- Cloverdale mobile home park residents unite against eviction
- Changing coast more than just shifting sands and turning tides
- Students provide tactics, strategies to limit hurt caused by cyberbullying
- Should elk fence stay or go, Pt. Reyes asking public to weigh in
- Santa Rosa-born reporter talks freeway history, new "Greenway"
- Developers file for super-sized SDC
- Struggling Sonoma Valley Hospital wins help from Sacramento
- Efforts to elevate Highway 37 get $155M boost
- Sonoma County's more rural areas set to grow
- Healdsburg officials entertain new SMART station locations
- UFW, Padilla urge stronger work protections after farmworker’s heat-related death
- Bird group dumps Audubon, new name takes flight
- Local leaders, activists mobilizing to block Ft. Ross power plant
- Federal disaster loans made available for Marin, Sonoma
- Tribal casino workers lobby at state capitol
- California researchers race to find solutions to wildfire smoke-tainted wine
- Community meeting set on Ft. Ross pumped storage proposal
- Federal grants will replace tunnels beneath roads that let water pass but not fish
- Cotati approves first of its kind cannabis lounge
- Stinson Beached! Sailboat grounds ashore in West Marin
- Making borrowing easier, amendment to state constitution could unlock billions for housing
- CA Fire Foundation collecting relief for Maui fire victims
- PG&E touts fire risk reduction, urges public readiness
- Santa Rosa housing project fends off appeal over parking
- Just what the doctor ordered: Prescription could pay for your fresh fruits and veggies
- Santa Rosa brings homelessness laws in line with federal rules
- Petaluma disputes critique of privatized planning department
- Latest proposal for Potter Valley Project future put to PG&E
- Santa Rosa seeks public input for 2050 General Plan
- Caltrans says unable to pay for full replacement of Monte Rio bridge
- Proposed new water rules aim to mitigate impact of vineyards
- Big jump in water rates likely in Sonoma
- Sonoma looking to fix city's cemeteries
- 1970s-era 'back-to-the-landers' now aging in place together
- Family of farmworker killed by police in 2022 demand accountability
- Windsor opts not to look for potential seismic vulnerabilities
- Mendocino County plugs budget gap with opioid settlement cash
- Save the Redwoods steward talks old growth past and future
- Agreement in place for sale of beloved redwood forest land
- County sending needy to website, says staff overwhelmed w/aid requests
- Shortage of nurses hurting Calif., big gulf on solutions
- State labor officials aim to protect vulnerable guestworkers
- Behind the scenes: California's new arts education plans
- Big park to replace unbuilt Santa Rosa freeway
- Downsizing at Rohnert Park safe sleeping site continues
- Limited water no impediment to Santa Rosa growth
- Workers hail settlement with vineyard management company
- With some changes, Santa Rosa finalizes new vacation rental rules
- Sonoma County lowers PLA threshold for construction projects
- California pilots new legal aid program for farmworkers
- West Sebastopol winemakers hope for new AVA
- Here's how California's electric cars can feed the grid and help avoid brownouts
- Library adds huge haul of Spanish content to streaming services
- Falling oak tree limb injures 6 in Santa Rosa park
- Cutting fire danger, one limb at a time
- Mobile home park owner threatens closure over new city regs
- Few big changes as coastal plan takes shape
- EdSource: Excerpts from probe into Title IX at Sonoma State
- Families with young children face hardship as Covid aid ends
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- Popularity of local climate funding measure in doubt
- Petaluma strengthens rent control for mobile home dwellers
- Solar panel recycling gets off the ground in Sonoma County
- Seaside power plant proposed near Fort Ross
- New drone technology adds to growing uses in wildfire, urban firefighting
- What's the trouble in Peacetown? Article details investigation; nonprofit "firmly rejects" allegations
- Strike looms for UPS workers
- Another insurance company drops coverage in California
- All aboard! SMART to Windsor, fully funded; service expected in 2025
- After decades of strife, trauma, artist confronting, healing from past
- Animal rights activists call for leniency, action from Sonoma County DA
- Shootings raise concern over gang activity in Santa Rosa
- It's free summer outdoor concert season
- Inside the legal battle over elk and fences at Point Reyes
- Forecast looks promising for holiday fireworks shows
- Cal Fire adds 24 aircraft to statewide fleet
- Graton Rancheria tribal chairman appointed to UC Board of Regents
- Food fight? Planning dispute prompts questions on food truck policy
- Civil grand jury finds issues with Sonoma County's delivery of services
- Santa Rosa couple takes fight for health and home to court
- Newly-signed state budget has fewer cuts for K-12
- Sea otter reintroduction once again on the table
- Erosion poses concerns and questions for Sonoma Coast
- Sonoma County Drag Story Hour events hit with protests
- Graton tribe celebrates groundbreaking, philanthropy
- Graton Rancheria to fund, support Native American filmmakers
- County libraries stand firm in commitment to inclusivity
- Popular local radio host talks cancellation and future plans
- Activists target Petaluma Poultry
- Supes seek to balance priorities, funding in budget talks
- Santa Rosa businesses targeted with anti-LGBTQ+ messages
- Reconnecting cycles, soils, and carbon key to forest health
- Drivers elevate to new roadway through 'Novato Narrows' this weekend
- Park Service tentatively backs removing elk fence from Pt. Reyes Nat'l Seashore
- The new payday loans? CA moves to regulate cash advance apps
- NASCAR weekend at Sonoma Raceway starts Friday
- Central Sonoma County ambulance service changes hands
- Enough is enough, vacation rental regulations approved in Windsor
- Brush clearing goats gain health and safety protections
- Electricity rate increase approved in Healdsburg
- Stricter vacation-rental rules taking shape, but issue lingers
- Initial steps underway, Santa Rosa might provide cash aid under state initiative to prevent underprivileged from being locked out of cannabis trade
- Short-term-rental rules up for revision Tuesday in Santa Rosa
- Farm Aid introduces Spanish language crisis line
- Forests & fire have a long relationship, what's the balance?
- State to send $95 million to undocumented flooding victims
- Sonoma County adds three new judges to the bench
- Local bookstore staff closer to union membership
- Legal showdown looming in county ambulance contract
- Holocaust survivor's journey from camps to forgiveness
- Housing, counseling, tranquility helping once-homeless vets rebound
- BottleRock a celebration of music, culture and perfect weather
- Newsom plan for San Quentin rehab center unfunded for now
- We hear all about saving salmon. Here's an inside look at it
- Sonoma State and CSUs looking at tuition hikes
- Farm workers march past upscale event calling for hazard pay
- North Bay food bank feeding double the number from pre-2020
- Educators and community gather to hear "youth perspective"
- Affordable housing vouchers becoming less scarce
- Napa growers see ag harvest jump 20 percent in value
- California Transportation Commission OK's Highway 37 tolls
- Biomass energy, and local use of it has real drawbacks, activists claim
- Petaluma tenants gaining added protections
- Sonoma County cannabis cultivators facing new tax rates
- Sonoma County supes dedicate $1.5M to mobile support teams in preparation for expansion
- Zero Waste Symposium returns in person to the North Bay
- Nascent California offshore wind industry looks to new port in Humboldt Bay
- More Bay Area tolls? Big changes could come to Highway 37
- Wildwood retreat granted reprieve from county and rezoned
- Sonoma County supes approve new contract with largest county worker union
- Price cheating and overcharges on the rise across the county
- Newton Minow, former FCC chief and public TV advocate, has died at 97
- Confusing legalese sparks row over coastal plan
- Union drive at Sonoma hotel resort draws NLRB scrutiny
- Helping Sonoma County seniors age-in-place and prepare for wildfire
- Housing costs a crisis for the region, advocates say
- Sonoma Mountain vernal pools protected for generations
- Arrival of whales spurring new crabbing restrictions
- AMR seeking redress, claims underhanded process doomed ambulance bid
- Petaluma's Birth Center officially shuttered despite protest
- Sonoma County adopts incentive program for new hires
- County's largest employee union ratifies new contract
- County to blaze new trails
- County takes aim at homeless with rules on public camping
- Record precipitation aids outlook for start of fire season
- Rehab coming for Sonoma County's aging flood control infrastructure
- Lakeville Creek receives big boost in restoration efforts
- PG&E's undergrounding plan for Sonoma County in '23: 2 miles
- Sonoma County makes stricter rules for vacation rentals
- Addressing fire fears and aging needs, Sonoma County nonprofits join forces to harden seniors’ homes — for free
- Closure draws nearer for Petaluma's Family Birth Center
- RCPA targets local funding program for green transition
- Petaluma skating prodigy talks Olympic prep, finding balance
- Petaluma makes permanent tenant protection rules
- New well permits will require additional time and money in Sonoma County
- Central Valley farmers reeling as flooding wreaks havoc on dairy industry
- Local woman recognized for helping save Athena House
- US poet laureate and Sonoma native Ada Limon on creativity
- Deadline Thursday for affordable apartment lottery
- CSU student workers move to unionize
- North Bay congressman host town hall, answer questions
- Analy students walk out calling for an end to gun violence
- NorCal Public Media backs NPR and PBS by Leaving Twitter
- Report of shooting at Windsor middle school unfounded, says sheriff
- Petaluma bookstore staffers unionize
- New cinema center offers exciting opportunities for students
- Rohnert Park officials to examine homeless response
- NorCal politicians call for federal relief for commercial salmon fishers
- Bennett Valley educators authorize strike as talks continue
- Uncertainty looms over future of Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds
- County introduces slate of new regulations for water wells
- Healdsburg's workers wonder about their place in the city
- SoCo supes move closer to limiting daytime camping in public spaces
- Despite deluge, recycled wastewater bolsters water security
- PG&E settlement funds aiding housing construction
- Water rate hikes loom from Sonoma Water
- Students get help planting message of peace at school
- Wine grapes avoided a disastrous freeze, what comes next?
- Salmon fishermen reflect on causes, future as closure looms
- Con-man who scammed millions from vintners, collectors, dead
- New play looking squarely at gun violence makes local debut
- Healdsburg repeals longstanding cannabis business ban
- Drought, management decisions, ocean conditions blamed for salmon crash
- Dearth of salmon prompts calls to cancel all fishing
- Deadline nears to join committee that will select firestorm remembrance monument
- Vineyard managers eyeing coming freeze
- Research & studies at Bodega Bay to continue as county and UC ink deal
- Elders urge end to oil exploration, banks cease financing
- Need a county service? It will cost you more this summer
- Backlog of audits cleared as IOLERO ramps up operations
- Lake Pillsbury more at risk to seismic activity than thought
- California Indian Museum and Cultural Center’s 'Being with Bears' program launches into second year
- Search continues for Santa Rosa senior, missing three weeks
- Palms Inn residents, supporters call for oversight and aid
- New rules adopted for winery events in county's rural areas
- Housing the focus of interest, ire in Healdsburg
- County joins local cities in prohibiting new fueling stations
- Storm damage: stately tree takes out powerlines, streetlamp in Santa Rosa
- Top Montgomery HS admin out; former principal in for rest of school year
- Community anger persists after high school stabbing
- Plaintiffs: parking ban a fig leaf for anti-homeless policy
- Community listening session held following Santa Rosa high school stabbing
- Marin coroner releases Chavez autopsy report
- Students call for accountability from Montgomery High admin
- 'Don't fence me in;' pressure on national park service to put elk first at Point Reyes
- Compromise ends two decade battle over Petaluma's Scott Ranch
- Investigation continues in fatal Montgomery High stabbing
- Cannabis glut upending growers; tax revenue falling short
- Student dies after stabbing at Montgomery High in Santa Rosa
- New documentary focuses on Sonoma County's pottery luminary
- County workers rally hours before current contract expires
- Fairly simple, mostly inexpensive ways to fortify your home against wildfire
- African American experience in Healdsburg put in focus
- Sonoma County families receive their first $500 monthly check
- Parks Service readies removal of small dam in Marin
- County transportation agency approves millions in funding
- Sonoma County launches guaranteed income pilot program for families in poverty
- Thunder, rain, snow…all happening this week in North Bay
- Sebastopol proceeding with road repair, 'unsafe' bike lanes
- $50 million sought to boost Geysers energy production
- Public drinking moves closer to a reality in Healdsburg
- Cotati weighs new city seal
- Chavez family waits while Sonoma County DA decides if charges filed in police killing
- Rising demand for counseling, senior services in West County
- Sonoma County to lift COVID-19 public health emergency
- Healthcare board tussles with Providence over birth center
- Bees to swarm Healdsburg as county inks deal to store commercial hives
- New bill aims to make direct physician employment permanent
- Staff speak out against planned closure of birth center
- Newts find helping hands in journey across a corner of Sonoma County
- Newly rehabbed, school for developmentally-challenged students unveiled
- Hotel workers and supporters gather to support union drive
- Local State of the Union guest details experience
- Bringing astronomical utility bills back down to earth
- Ruth Asawa Fountain return edges closer
- Learning and adaptability crucial to groundwater plans
- Even with new money, a fix for SR 37 still a long way off
- Supes ponder bond measure to repair, upgrade Vets buildings
- Pedaling Petaluma for fun and purpose; advocates hope to entice locals onto two-wheels
- Cómo escuchar la cobertura bilingüe del Estado de la Unión de NPR - esta noche a las 6 pm
- Video looking into Sonoma County's future climate debuts
- Commission advances county-wide ban on new gas stations
- Rural areas could finally see fast internet service
- Strategic pruning, watering can buttress trees againt soupy soil, high winds
- County to ponder costs, details as further study of new county office complex approved
- County's three Groundwater Sustainability Plans good to go
- Sebastopol's Climate Action Committee holds first climate action framework community meeting
- Residents, officials gather for conversation about honoring indigenous history and place in Healdsburg
- Planned closure of Petaluma Birthing Center prompts unified pushback
- City of Sonoma still has ground to make up in efforts to mitigate homelessness
- Legal battle brewing over Sonoma Developmental Center re-use plans
- State approves sustainability plans for major North Bay groundwater basins
- Legal decision frees up funding for SMART rail extension to Windsor and Healdsburg
- New research finds prescribed burns may emit more carbon as trees die faster in CA forests
- A single, super school district a real possibility for Santa Rosa as enrollment continues slide
- County workers rally ahead of bargaining session
- Vineyard community makes case for new water district
- Local public library governing board raises policy questions over displays and signage
- Community, recovery, future, all on the mind at Healdsburg's Raven Theater
- When disaster strikes, locals often first to help
- Many still in need as storm relief funds run out
- Train crushes pickup left on tracks, authorities searching for owner
- Rain and research opportunities abound with parade of atmospheric rivers
- Woman lost in flood leaves huge void, authorities ID two who perished in Sea Ranch
- What does this stream of rain mean for groundwater levels? Here's what one expert has to say
- Rising reservoir levels put Army Corps of Engineers back at the helm of release valves
- Ever-changing conditions a challenge for supercomputers tasked with building accurate flood forecasts
- Protected and Connected - Residents call for increased spending on climate friendly bike infrastructure
- Woman found dead in flooded vehicle near Forestville
- Remote failure risks lurk as Lake Hennessey fills to capacity
- Help on standby as deluge pounds region
