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- Written by: Norcal Administrator
From genetic predisposition to flawed cultural assumptions, humankind’s history is getting in the way of preparing for a very different future.
Read more: Living Through the Peak of Industrial Civilization
- Written by: Norcal Administrator
As summer approaches we are drawn to water recreation as a way to cool off and to celebrate seasonal fun here in our naturally diverse Sonoma County.
- Written by: Norcal Administrator
ALSO: Pink items marketed to women and their blue counterparts for men would have to cost the same in California, under a bill passed by the state Senate today.
Read more: Water Supply Concerns As Drought Persists In Western U.S.
- Written by: Norcal Administrator
Yoga has become so popular in the U.S. that studios are now as common as Starbucks coffee shops. But in other parts of the world, the practice is still getting its footing.
Read more: Communities in West Africa Find Healing and Balance Through Yoga
- Protesters Question SoCal Fracking Resumption
- Cap And Trade Credits Fall Well Below Target
- Measure AA Seeks Parcel Tax for Wetlands Projects
- AAA: More Californians Traveling Memorial Day Weekend
- GMO Debate Lands on Sonoma County Ballot--Again
- Former President Bill Clinton Rallies In California
- Jack London State Park’s Plowing Day Offers a Look into the Past
- Healthcare for Undocumented Adults Expands in California
- Making the Syrian Refugee Crisis Personal
- Planning Underway to Improve ‘The Springs’
- Marine Mammal Strandings
- CA Senate Passes Package Of Gun, Ammo Restrictions
- A New Airline Alights in Santa Rosa
- Building Acceptance for ‘Ugly’ Produce
- CA Counts: Sanders shifts focus to California primary with rally in Carson
- Rolling Out an Accessible ‘Hike’
- Napa Cafe Provides Path to Employment for Developmentally Disabled
- Costly Hospital Readmissions in Decline
- Brown Cites Fable In Bid To Limit New Budget Spending
- Kids Benefit from Playing Outside
- Prop 30 Extension Backers' Budget Claims Misleading
- Draft SMART Train Schedule to be Tested
- Prop 30 Income Tax Increase Extension Likely Headed To Voters
- Marin County Sheriff’s Deputies To Get Body-Worn Cameras
- California Tax Revenues Fall Below Estimates As Budget Talks Get Under Way
- Landscaping Guidelines Boost Native Plants
- Bernie Sanders Rallies Thousands of Supporters In Sacramento
- "Your Song Changed My Life"
- Castles & Kites Returns to Doran Beach
- POLITIFACT: Jerry Brown’s Half True Claim About California Doubling Florida’s Job Gains
- Gnoss Field Airport Close to Getting Runway Improvements
- Brown Signs Five Anti-Tobacco Bills, Vetoes One
- Students’ Engineering Creativity on Display at SSU
- Pathogen Killing Trees in California Can't Be Stopped
- Santa Rosa One Step Closer to Rent Control
- Theater Company Commissions Jack London-Inspired Theme
- ‘Ecological Handprints’ Captures Grass-roots Global Innovation
- ‘Ecological Handprints’ Captures Grass-roots Global Innovation
- Water Agencies Prepare Zero Trash Initiative
- Green Mary's Lending Library
- Pacific Association Baseball Tryouts
- Rev. Billy Ramps Up His Environmental Evangelism
- Discovering the New Laguna Discovery Trail
- Congress Finally Acts on Conservation Funding
- Incubator Farm Revisions Offered to Mollify Neighbors
- Nationwide, Parks Need More Support, Funding
- Sonoma & Mendocino Join in Economic Development District
- Proposed Napa Watershed Initiative Reopens Old Divisions
- Sebastopol’s Village Building Convergence Resumes
- North Coast Gardener Shares Love of Bee-Friendly Landscapes with New Book
- California Appeals Court Strikes Down Vergara Ruling
- Proposed Parking Fees for Sonoma’s Beaches Stalled Again
- An Alternative Forum for 5th District Supervisor Hopefuls
- Restored Wetlands May Be Source of Greenhouse Gases
- Landline Telephones Threatened with Extinction
- Crime Victims Rally As Brown Pushes Ballot Initiative
- Local Health Group Encourages End-of-Life Planning
- POLITIFACT: Ted Cruz' Record With The Truth As He Stumps In California
- Tall Ships Return to Bodega Bay
- Minimum Wage Deal Is The First Under New Initiative Process
- A More Robust Homeless Court to Debut
- Grazing Plays A Vital Role In Maintaining Our Parks And Open Spaces
- Governor Brown, Crime Victims, And The Elephant On The Capitol Steps
- Embracing Corporate Entrepreneurialism
- Dam Removal Front And Center In New Klamath Deals
- Documentary Seeks Support for Ukrainian Nationalists
- Drug Crime Bills Move Forward In California Legislature
- Geyserville 3rd Grader's Story Gets 'Pirated'
- Brown Signs California $15/Hour Minimum Wage
- Living With Parkinson's Disease
- The Two Sides Of Transparency
- Jobs, Housing and Inter-State Migration Assessed
- Student Enviromental Discovery Hikes Reinforce California State Science Standards
- How California Will Award Presidential Primary Delegates
- Sober Circle out to Aid Petaluma’s ‘Serial Inebriates’
- Systemic Causes For Disputes Between CSU And Faculty
- Seeking “Sustainable Solvency” for Social Security
- Mixed Reactions In California To Supreme Court Union Fee Ruling
- Revised Tobacco Sellers Licensing Measure Approved
- Volunteers Help Clean Up The Joe Rodota Trail
- Fact-Finder Favors Faculty In Dispute With CSU
- Alternative Approaches to Vineyard Frost Protection
- The Long-Term Threat To California Beaches
- Online Map to Redirect Food Waste
- Out on the Police Beat
- Non-Lethal Predator Controls for North Bay Ranchers
- Living with Faults in the North Bay
- Bill To End "Surprise Medical Bills" Gets New Life
- A Brighter Future Awaits Marin's History Museum
- California Owes $64 Billion In Unfunded Pensions
- The Covert Forces that Shaped Our Political Present
- Economic Concerns Dominate Food Forum
- Spring Lake Does Its Job During Recent Storms
- State Analyst Questions New High Speed Rail Plan
- Bill To Create UC Gun Research Center Passes 1st Committee
- Dogsled Race Inspires Local Composer’s Song Cycle
- California Experiencing "Miracle March" With Rain And Snow
- County Adopts Union Contracts
- Tobacco Industry's Threats: Provocative, But Legal
- New Documentary Focuses on Fish and Fishermen
- Should "Gig Economy" Workers Be Allowed To Organize?
- Local ‘Partners’ Aid Rural African Tribe
- A New Home for Funky Fridays
- Legislation Would Aid Beleaguered Bees
- Study: Even Limited Community College Credits Yield Economic Rewards
- Remembering the Running Fence, 40 Years Later
- CA Chief Justice Calls For Funding For Children's Attorneys, Study Of Fees
- Forum Spotlights Drug Abuse Rates, Treatment Needs
- Storms Boost Sierra Nevada Snowpack, Reservoirs
- Marijuana Measures Seek a Place on the 2016 Ballot
- As Atkins Steps Down, Affordable Housing Still Unachieved
- GMO Foes Again Push for Sonoma County Ban
- Assembly Passes New Tobacco Fees, Restrictions, Higher Min. Age
- "The Flavors of Home"
- California Revenue Bond Initiative Could Have Unintended Consequences
- Water Content In Snow Remains Below Normal
- Turning Wine Waste into Healthy Snacks
- MCO Tax Deal Passes Legislature
- Health Benefits Discovered in Wine Waste
- Brown's Tax On Health Plans Splits California GOP
- Making Better Use of Wine Waste
- Strong El Niño No Help For Long-Term California Drought
- The Grammar Diva Applies Age-old Rules to Modern Usage
- Sierra Snowpack Melts With Dry February
- Aging in America is Changing
- Half-Billion Dollar Budget Bill Is Part Of California Tax Bargain
- Concern Over Coastal Commission’s Direction
- Crab Fishermen Retrieve Lost Gear
- Anti-aging Drug Development is an Uncertain Path
- Feinstein Calls For Apple To Decrypt Shooters' iPhones
- Cells May Hold a Key to Aging
- IRS: Beware Of Scam Phone Calls
- Erosion Watch on the Sonoma Coast
- Clinton Or Sanders? California Legislative Women's Caucus Split
- SE Greenway Advocates Report Progress
- Audit: Covered California Remains "High-Risk"
- Cover Crops Improve Soil, Mitigate Climate Change
- Unions React To Friedrich Case, Post-Scalia
- Mercury Found in Coastal Fog
- Could Scalia's Absence Reshape California Politics?
- Legal Challenge Could Freeze Billions In Funds For California's Bullet Train
- Becoming Independent Expands Services for Autistic Young Adults
- Insurance Industry Backs Brown's Tax On California Health Plans
- Santa Rosa Advances Cannabis Cultivation Regulations
- Scientists Say Levees Can Increase Flood Risk And Long Term Damage
- Tick Borne Diseases
- Why Are You Paying $.77 More For Gas Than The Rest Of The U.S.?
- CSU Faculty Set April Strike Dates
- DOJ Announces Mortgage Settlement
- An Insider’s History of the Black Panthers
- Study Links Oil And Gas Activity in California To Earthquakes
- Community Colleges Offer Upbeat Message On Student Success
- SMART Roll-out Gathers Momentum
- Presidential Authority to Declare National Monuments Upheld
- Water Conservation Continues Downward Slide
- County Sets Parameters for Chanate Redevelopment
- California Senate Race Fundraising Mirrors Polls
- Dick Spotswood Samples the Iowa Caucuses
- Reservoirs Filling, Sierra Snowpack Above Average
- Guerneville Health Center Carries On Despite Fire
- California Regulators Approve New Rooftop Solar Program
- Runoff and the Russian River
- Brown Backs Overhaul Of California's Sentencing System
- Full State of the County
- Protest and Politics at Annual Business Event
- CSU Trustees Weigh Competing Student, Faculty Needs
- Tracing Evolution's Limits
- S&P Cautions Against More California Spending
- Local Granges Face Unwanted Identity Choice
- Governor Brown Claims California Has Created Two Million New Jobs Since 2011
- Warm Water Wreaking Havoc on Ocean Systems
- Government support urged for family savings accounts
- Brown Calls For Fiscal Discipline In State Of The State Address
- The Geography of Genius
- Brown To Give Record 14th State Of The State
- Rethinking Urban Development
- Change To Prop. 13 Could Be Headed For November Ballot
- Pressing for Action on Homelessness
- Lawmakers Propose Ban on Powdered Alcohol in California
- Making “green” ammonia as a chemical battery
- Senate's Homelessness Proposal May Need To Go To The Ballot
- Brown's California Preschool Overhaul Raises Concerns
- Water Agencies Say Conservation Regulations Don't Provide Enough Relief
- Water Agencies Receive Final Round Of "Emergency Drought" Aid
- Big Change To Prop 30 Tax Extension Initiative
- New Restrictions On Concealed Weapons On Campus
- How a Movie’s Sound Design Works
- Prescription Drug Cost Caps Take Effect
- Heath Insurance Outreach for California Latinos
- Authorities Arrest Suspect On Terrorism-Related Charges In Sacramento
- Courthouse Square Tree Removal Questioned
- Making strides in Alzheimer's Treatment
- Ballot Measure Eyed for Wetlands Restoration
- California Lawmakers Prep Gun Control Bills
- Local researchers advance understanding of Alzheimer's
- Wetlands as a Hedge Against Sea Level Rise
- Special Session Fates Unclear As Lawmakers Tout New Priorities
- New Places For More Beer In California
- Electric Vehicle Adoption Accelereates
- Electric Vehicle Adoption Accelerates
- Prohibition-Era Restrictions On California Liquor Distillers To Be Lifted
- Pregnancy Centers To Comply With Abortion Information Law
- New California Law Protects Digital Privacy
- New Year Brings Higher Minimim Wage
- Should You Insure Your Drone?
- New California Law Targets Wage Theft
- California College Police Get New 'Tools' For Investigations
- California Law To Require Bright Markings On BB Guns
- Dr. Elmo's Holiday Hit Endures
- Building a New Life in America
- California Regulators Could Loosen Water Conservation Mandate
- Busy Times for Sonoma Land Trust
- California Faulted for Underspending on Anti-smoking Efforts
- California Minimum Wage Becomes The Highest In The U.S.
- Queen of the Sun
- POLITIFACT: Did 2,000 Suspected Terrorists Legally Buy Guns In The U.S.?
- Moorland Neighborhood Park Plans Take Shape
- DMV Releases Draft Rules For Driverless Cars
- The Rio Theater’s New Life
- California Rooftop Solar Proposal Defies Utilities
- Community Separators Going Back Before Sonoma County Voters
- California Property Values Jump 6% Over Last Year
- Better Foster Care Provides a More Typical Life
- North Bay Braces for a Drenching
- New Voter Bill Of Rights Coming Next Spring
- Campus Store Offers Student-made Goods
- The Badger Is A Rare, But Essential Member Of Park Wildlife
- Could New California Law Prevent Mass Shootings?
- John Trudell, 1946-2015
- Why Plastic Bag Ban Opponents Have Two Ballot Measures
- Coastal Wildlife Featured in “Mendonoma Sightings” Book
- Thousands Enroll In Covered California
- Supervisors Back Revised Living Wage Ordinance
- Regulators Consider Changes To Mandatory Water Conservation Rates
- Rethinking Single-stream Recycling
- Meal Worms Could Solve World's Plastic Problem
- Recycling on the Ropes
- Winter Hiking In Your Regional Parks
- Wolf Protection Plan Criticized
- FEC Chair Laments Lack Of Action On 'Dark Money'
- Promoting the Social Marketing of Wine
- Poll Compares Climate Change Concern In California To Other Countries
- Economic Incentives for Home Solar Systems Under Fire
- Brown: California Needs Allies In Fight Against Climate Change
- Protecting Livestock from Predators
- Tech-driven Vending Machines Out to Transform Breakroom Food
- California Leads the Nation in Homelessness
- Another Strong Holiday Shopping Season For California?
- Updating 'The Wine Bible'
- Understanding Roots
- Community Choice Power Coming Under Fire
- POLITIFACT: Have Costs Dropped 'Several Hundred Million Dollars' For California’s Bullet Train?
- The Story of the Sonoma Coast, Told (Mostly) in Pictures
- California Jobs Report Vastly Improved This Month
- A Prolific Year for Michele Anna Jordan
- Rafting Rivers in the Sky (in a Plane)
- Fiscal Analyst Predicts California Budget Surpluses
- PPIC Study On Water Management
- Homeless Encampment Relocates
- Organized 'Tree Nut' Crime Could Be Diminishing
- Microbes "scrub" winemaking wastewater
- Scientist Says Hedgerows Can Reduce Pesticides
- Navy Signals Willingness to Protect Whales
- Healdsburg Gleaners “Rescue” Food for Pantries
- State Approves $500M For New Jails
- Launching a New Case for Home Health Workers’ Wage Increase
- California Budget Surplus Nears $1 Billion
- Re-introducing Medicinal Herbs
- Additional funds will temporarily boost repaving roads
- Project Censored in 2016
- Dam Removal Awaits Congressional Confirmation
- POLITIFACT: California Lawmaker's Claim About Insured Motorists Is Fantasy
- The Toolbox Project Gains Momentum
- State Insists High-Speed Rail Remains On Track
- Kanaye Nagasawa’s Journey to Fountaingrove
- Fighting Back over "Fine Print"
- Cal State University Faculty Group Authorizes Strike
- Rick Steves' Lifetime of European Travel
- Unions Offer Competing Minimum Wage Increases
- Deal On Recreational Marijuana Initiative Finally Emerges
- Keys to Sustainability—For the Wine Industry and Beyond
- Regulators Fine Suppliers Over Water Use
- SMART’s Pathway Progress Questioned
- Is Voting In Costume Legal In California?
- Cricket Speeds Up, Gains Popularity in the North Bay
- How to Change Hospital Culture When It Comes to Giving Birth
- School Parcel Tax Tops Quiet November Election
- California Waiting On Medicaid Waiver
- Confronting Cyberbullying
- More Counties Focus On Health Care for Undocumented
- Revisiting Community Separators
- North Bay Science Discovery Day
- Don't Miss The Last Weekend of the Tolay Fall Festval
- Rooftop Solar Industry Says Rate Changes Could Spell Doom
- Home Healthcare Workers Seek Support
- Major Milestone For Groundwater Regulation Approved
- Sustainability and the Next Generation
- California Lobbies Offer Candidates A Frank Lesson
- DMV: Too Busy With Present To Deal With Future?
- Don't Count On El Niño For Sierra Snowpack
- The Sonoma County Library Outlines Its Future
- Bats Are Amazing and Abundant in Our Regional Parks
- Forecast: Strong El Niño Will Improve California Drought
- Strike Vote Next Week for SSU Faculty
- Activism as a Key to Improving Latinos’ Health
- Lawsuit Challenges CDCR's Halloween Sex Offender Policy
- Deportation Now Less Likely For Immigrant Drug Offenders
- Santa Rosa Named a “Fair Trade Town"
- Mixed Actions From Brown On Drone Legislation
- Goji Berries Take Root in Sonoma County
- Local Author Event: A Bicycle Built for Two Billion
- Brown Signs Motor Voter Law
- Lack Of Oversight Of Oil And Gas Wells Leads To Review
- Santa Rosa Orchestra Debuts New Works
- Billionaire Steyer To Fund California Cigarette Tax Effort
- Grants Boost Food Stamp Use at Farm Markets
- Brown Signs Equal Pay For Women Law
- A Smartphone App to Aid “Gig” Workers
- Governor Brown Signs End-Of-Life Legislation
- Co-Working Catches On In Sonoma County
- Brown Vetoes Harsher Sentences, Signs Use-Of-Force, Racial-Profiling Bills
- The Growing “Gig Economy” in the North Bay
- Top California Air Official Backs New EPA Ozone Limit
- Farm Workers Get New Protections from Pesticides
- New Poll On Tax Initiatives
- Congress Eyes Mental Health Measures
- "Background" Ozone Major Problem For Northern California & Nevada
- Rainwater Aids Bodega’s Fire Department
- Managing the Tule Elk at Point Reyes
- New Report On Realignment and Prison Population
- Environmentalist Pushes New Water Bond
- Sonoma State University and Oakland Zoo Work Together to Improve Lives of Lemurs
- Volunteers Are Needed For The Tolay Fall Festival
- California Water Rights System Tested During Drought
- Invasive Speices, Past and Future
- California-China Trade Office Prospering
- The Root Problem with Invasive Species
- Groups Push To Increase California Voting Turnout
- Supervisors Weigh Licensing Tobacco Sales
- Second Initiative Filed To Extend Prop 30
- Documenting California's Disappearing Glaciers
- Fighting Traffic Tickets In California Might Get Cheaper
- Valley Fire Resources & Information
- Creating a Big "Fish Bubbler" to Save Drought-Afflicted Salmon
- Wate Bark Returns to Spring Lake Regional Park
- Water Bark Returns to Spring Lake Regional Park
- California Regulators Warn Of Insurance Scams In Fire Zones
- Small Mountain of Trash Cleared from Laguna Channel
- Megafires Don't Melt Opposition To California Fire Fee
- The Sonoma County Authors’ Project
- Voices from Valley Fire Evacuee Camp
- Will Climate Change Lead to Mass Migration?
- Rare Defeats For Brown As California Legislature Wraps Up
- One Woman’s War on Plastic Litter
- Legislature Approves Foster Care Overhaul
- Pinkwashing in Alcohol Beverage Advertising
- Court Ruling Benefits Bees
- Medical Marijuana Deal On Agenda For Legislature's Final Day
- A Reporter Adapts to Elected Office
- End Of Life Bill Passes California Assembly
- An Introduction to the Theremin
- Bipartisan Road Repair Deal Now Considered Unlikely
- Bees Still Facing Multiple Threats
- A Diverse Workforce Faces More Challenges
- Farmworker Health Survey Details Disparities
- Major Issues Unresolved As Legislature Begins Final Week
- Inside Bodega's Historic Schoolhouse
- Inside Bodega's Historic Schoolhouse
- California Continues to Grow Green Jobs
- BioBlitz Hikes Will Help Catalog The Natural History of Two Parks
- State Regulators Fine Oil And Gas Operators For Failing To Report Water Use
- Inside Bodega's Historic Schoolhouse
- California Coal Divestment Bill Heads To Governor's Desk
- Neighborhood Input Sought for Moorland Park
- Building Bipartisan Collaboration in Sacramento
- Enjoy Kid-Friendly Hikes In Your Regional Parks
- Fictionalized Petaluma Featured in new Sci-Fi Novel Series
- When the Inside Air is a Health Hazard
- Assessing Indoor Air Quality
- Grey Wolves Begin to Reappear in California
- Energy Efficiency Boosts California Economy
- Some Improvement In California Drought Year Over Year
- Noted Civil Rights Activist Dies in Santa Rosa
- Mapping one of the last frontier’s --- California’s Coastal Seafloor
- Banks Repossess More Homes In July
- Effort Renewed To Pass Right-To-Die Legislation
- Sugarloaf Park benefit concerts squeezed by attendance cap
- Flat Managed Care Tax Proposed
- Life Behind the School Counselor’s Desk
- Project Will Study How Drones Can Improve Wildfire Management
- Sausalito’s Homegrown Tall Ship
- Social Security Enters Ninth Decade
- Park Rangers Often Perform "Other Duties As Assigned"
- El Nino and the Blob Could Change Drought in California
- Feeding Birds In Your Backyard? Time to Quit
- Reborn Palm Drive Hospital Awaits Re-opening
- Coastal Commission Adopts Sea Level Rise Guidelines
- Home health workers still excluded from county’s Living Wage
- State Agrees To One Inmate's Sex Reassignment Surgery - But Not Another's
- Revisiting Rosie the Riveter
