

- Written by: Norcal Administrator
A collection of seven Community Separators, approved by voters 20 years ago, will be back on the ballot for renewal next fall, possibly with some additional areas to be protected.
Read more: Community Separators Going Back Before Sonoma County Voters

- Written by: Norcal Administrator
ALSO: Almost two months after the discovery of a natural gas leak at a storage site near Los Angeles, the company responsible says it can’t identify the cause or how much methane has been released.
Read more: California Property Values Jump 6% Over Last Year

- Written by: Norcal Administrator
Children in foster care thrive when they are able to live a more typical life, a new study concludes.

- Written by: Norcal Administrator
The storm that blew through the North Bay – toppling trees and downing powerlines – is just a preview, forecasters say, of the heavy storms we can expect this winter due to El Niño.
- 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
- Cities, Counties Urge Infrastructure Spending
- Rocky Fire Unpredictable For Fire Fighters
- Exploring Sonoma County’s Varied Geology
- Russian River Patrol Keeps Beach Goers Safe
- Brown Visits Rocky Fire, Calls It "New Normal"
- SAY’s Dream Center Takes Shape
- Massive Toxic Algae Bloom Flourishes Along The West Coast
- Banning Bids to Label GMO Foods
- Public Wi-Fi May Hold Risks
- Judge Clears Way For Regulators to Enforce Water Cutbacks
- Inside View Now Available at Wildlife Hospital
- After Failing Air Quality Report, Improvement Plan Suggested
- No Fire Fighter Shortage Despite State's Shrinking Prison Population
- Alternative Birthing Centers
- Community Colleges Try To Improve Education Planning
- Tracking Traffic in the Sonoma Valley Wildlife Corridor
- Take A Walk On The Wild Side in Sonoma County's Great Outdoors
- Californians Reduce Water Use By 27 Percent in June
- An 'Opportunity Fair' for Young Workers
- Napolitano Testifies In Senate Hearing On Campus Sexual Assualts
- Pending Sainthood for Junipero Serra Remains Controversial
- Despite Gains, Greenhouse Gas Goal Remains Elusive
- Medi-Cal Turns 50
- Barn Cats Offer 'Green' Pest Control During The Drought
- Covered California Releases 2016 Insurance Rates
- Preparing for Life Beyond Coal, Oil and Gas
- Study Shows Wildfires Occurring At Higher Elevations
- Anticipating Life After Fossil Fuels
- Get Outside and Float The Summer Away Along The Russian River
- I-10 Bridge Collapse Might Not Be California's Last
- Group Prepares Latinos to be Leaders
- Teaching Financial Literacy
- Ride-Sharing Companies, Taxi Industry Battle In State Agencies, Legislature
- Bill Would Allow Fire Fighters To Jam Interfering Drones
- Climate scientist says one El Niño year won’t end California’s four-year drought.
- Explore Sonoma County’s River Parks
- Apps Help Farmers With Efficiency During The Drought
- Climate Scientists Share Rewards, Frustrations in THIN ICE Documentary
- Medical Marijuana Regulation Bill Gains Momentum
- Seeking a Sustainable Niche in the Operating Room
- Melding Old and New at Lincoln Elementary
- Study: Cell Phone Use While Driving In California Increased In 2015
- 'Imperfect' Produce On Sale To Reduce Food Waste
- Hobby Drones Hamper Firefighting In California
- Gaining in the Fight Against AIDS
- Bill Would Legalize Citizen Recordings Of Police Officers
- Anti-Smoking Measures Stall In Assembly
- Keeping Up With White Sharks
- Community College Transfer Initiative Targets UC's Most Popular Majors
- Understanding 'Jellies'
- Right To Die Bill Faces Next Hearing
- Housing costs and the North Bay’s Vanishing Middle Class
- California Electricity Rates Could Rise For Some Users
- US Forest Service Says Conditions Ideal For Megafires in California
- EPA to Expand Pesticide Ban
- Smart Phones Sold In California Must Have Kill Switch
- Objections Raised to Congressional Drought Bill
- Documenting Restorative Justice in Santa Rosa
- All California Workers Eligible For Sick Pay Today
- The Next Generation of Food
- Assembly Republicans Introduce Transportation Plan
- Strong First Year for Sonoma Clean Power
- New Rules For Smoke Alarms To Take Effect
- COTS Re-opens Doors to Family Shelter
- Two North Coast National Marine Sanctuaries Expanded
- Vaccine Bill Wins Assembly Approval
- Landpaths Introduces ‘TrekSonoma’ Outings
- "Sodomite Suppression Act" Ruled Unconstitutional
- Framing Roseland's Future
- Summer Youth Ecology Corps Goes Back to Work
- Why The Price Of Eggs Is Skyrocketing
- Volunteers Participate in Conservancy, Stewardship of Park Lands
- California Must Change Tax Or Face Losing Billions
- Brown Now "Open" To New Taxes Without Voter Approval
- Children’s Museum to Open Indoor Exhibits
- Banks Pick Up Pace Of Home Foreclosures
- Inside Costa Rica’s Ban on In Vitro Fertilization
- Filmmaker Probes the Russian River's Health
- Green Energy Advocacy Groups Consolidate
- Lawmakers Pass State Budget That Lacks Governor's Support
- Green Roof Tops New Amy's Drive-Thru
- California Regulators Curtail Senior Water Rights
- From Softball To Skateboards, Regional Parks Are A Place To Play
- Democrats' Budget Has More Money For UC, CSU
- Prop 13 "Split-Roll" Proposed In California Legislature
- AIDS Memorial Quilts on Display in Santa Rosa
- Environmental Groups Challange Fracking in CA
- Supervisors Adopt Living Wage Proposal
- Musical Play Memorializes Labor Icon
- Democrats Counter Brown's Budget Proposal
- Assembly Tries Again on Drug Cost Containment
- Predicting Fire Before it Hits
- A Musical View from Inside San Quentin
- Second Annual Trails Challenge Returns to Sonoma County
- Feds, California Agencies Sued Over Water Management Plan
- Spreading the Word About Soil
- Marin Museum of Bicycling Set to Open
- Immigrant Health Care Bill Passes Senate
- Sonoma County Voters Reject Measure A
- Senate Passes Measure Repealing Max Grant Rule For Families
- Marin Residents Weigh Options in "Game of Floods"
- Legislature Must Act Fast On Hundreds Of Bills
- Composting’s Cloudy Future in Sonoma County
- Taylor Mountain Volunteer Trail Work This Weekend
- Undocumented Health Care Bill Moves Forward
- Medicine Disposal Requirements Upheld
- California Budget Proposal Raises Questions Of Vaccine Bill Retaliation
- Implementation of Riparian Corridor Rules Begins
- Expanding 'Motor Voter' Registrations
- State Builds Emergency Barrier To Protect Water Supplies
- Prepping for Fire Season With the Hot Shots
- California Republicans Change Tone On Immigration
- Calculating Residential Water Changes
- CMA Drops Opposition To Physician Aid In Dying
- Vineyard Water Conservation
- Privatization May Threaten California Parklands
- Brown Signs International Climate Agreement
- Field Poll On California’s Mandatory Water Reduction Plan Shows Concern
- Inside a California Mentor Household
- Personalized Support for Developmentally Disabled Adults
- Brown's Budget: Beyond Schools, Selective New Spending
- Responding to Pollution's Health Impacts
- Effort Underway to Remove "Lynching" From Penal Code
- Space Satellites Can Detect California’s Groundwater
- State Legislators Weigh Soda Tax
- Developing a One Planet Lifestyle
- Child Care Advocates Find Warmer Reception This Year At Capitol
- Sales Tax Increase Would Finance Road Repairs
- Spring Is The Perfect Time To Celebrate The Parks!
- Bill Would Move Police Investigations Outside Grand Jury System
- New Sculpture Garden Out to Make a Big Impression
- Amending Prop 13 to Fight Poverty
- Brown Defends Delta Tunnels Project, Agriculture Industry
- Sebastopol Hospital’s Reopening Delayed
- Amid Lousy Conservation, Water Board Imposes Mandated Cuts
- Public Funds Just Seed Money in Fighting Homelessness
- Undocumented Immigrant Health Care Bill's Cost Estimate: $175-$740 Million
- SRJC Opens Dream Center
- 'Health For All Act' Would Expand Health Care Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants
- Robot Face-Off! Student Competition Teaches Kids Programming, Problem Solving
- Boarding and Kayaking All Part Of The Fun In Parks Celebration 2015
- New Tools for Financing Sustainability
- Envisioning a Future for Sonoma's Developmental Center
- Young Adults with Autism Thrive in Their New Home
- Health Games -- Innovation or Fad?
- A Brief Opening of the Border at San Diego
- West Marin Papers Merging
- Birders Can Get Their Fill At Sonoma County Parks Celebration 2015
- Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences
- The Native People of the Sonoma Coast
- The North Bay’s Tight Housing Market Assessed
- Connecting New Farmers with Land
- Parks Celebration 2015 Comes to Sonoma County
- Brown Says Water Rights Changes Coming
- ModMath App Assists Dysgraphic Students
- Slow Progress In Congressional Water Talks
- California: A State of Change
- Court Intervention Sought for Bees
- California FTB Ready For Tax Day
- Eco2School Fun Energizes Students to Drive Less
- Florida Governor Wants California Port Jobs
- Kaiser Announces Large-scale Autism Study
- Mandatory water cuts mean changes for California
- Covered California Considers Capping Specialty Drug Prices for Consumers
- New Art Museum of Sonoma County Debuts
- Riverfront Regional Park is Site of Next Underfoot 5K Run
- Tensions Appear Amidst Dwindling Water Supply
- Lawmakers Pledge More Money For UC, CSU
- Charting Local Adaptations to Climate Change
- Demanding Action for Mexico’s 43 “Disappeared” Students
- Undocumented See Support From California Democrats
- SMART's First Railcars Arrive
- Bill Would Regulate Electric Skateboards Like Bicycles
- Air Quality District Proposes New Fireplace Restrictions
- California Slow To Spend Emergency Drought Money
- Experience Family Style Camping at Spring Lake Regional Park
- The Mosquito District’s Assessment Election
- Unraveling Baseball's Unwritten Rules
- Introducing the Waterboxx
- Bill Would Require Search Warrants For Digital Files
- 100% Renewable Energy, is it Possible?
- Hybrid Trucks Deliver Small But Growing Market Share
- Job Prospects Better for California College Grads
- Some Immigrants Having Trouble Obtaining AB 60 Licenses
- Teacher-District Disagreements in Santa Rosa
- Sonoma County Regional Parks Going Green
- State Eases Sex Offender Residency Limits
- 'Right-To-Die' Proposal Sparks Tears, Impassioned Testimony at California Capitol
- 50th Anniversary Anti-War Teach-Ins
- Women's Caucus Prioritizes Work, Child Care Bills
- Redistricting Urged for SRJC Trustees
- Republicans Fail To Strip Fuels From AB 32
- New Sonoma Mountain Park Dedicated
- How the Internet Changes Thinking
- Bill Would Require Oversight Before School Police Get Military Equipment
- Creek restoration group celebrates 500th project
- Public Lands Generating Greehouse Gases
- New Parks Offer Trail Building and Maintenence Opportunities
- New Parks Offer Volunteer Trail Building and Maintenence Opportunities
- More Money For Drought Aid, But No Mandatory Conservation
- Bill Would Let Children Of Live-In Nannies Attend School In Employers' Districts
- Water Conservation Requirements Increased
- More Water Restrictions Ahead for Californians
- 'Tiny Steps' Toward Groundwater Management
- New Scrutiny For Brown's Retiree Health Care Proposal As Labor Talks Begin
- Critiquing the Internet's Economics
- California 'Safety-Net' Hospitals at Risk Amidst Health System Changes
- Schooling McDonald's on Localism
- Discover Sonoma County's Wild Beauty In Bloom
- California Teacher Layoffs Up Slightly This Year
- Sonoma County’s Climate Change Vulnerabilities
- Talking Fish -- Salmon Restoration Conference Come to Santa Rosa
- Talking Fish -- Salmon Restoration Conference Comes to Santa Rosa
- Sonoma County Bird Census Nears Completion
- California Lawmakers Look at Unequal Access to Health Care
- Solar Energy's Long History
- Report Criticizes California's Response To Underground Economy
- Inside Richmond's Immigration Detention Center
- Task Force Recommendations on Accountability
- Discover Hood Mountain Regional Park & Open Space Preserve
- Big Businesses Weighing In On Drought
- California Doctors, Lawmakers Renew Push for Medi-Cal Rate Increase
- Task Force Recommendations on Healing
- California Water Conservation Rate Drops As Does Water Content in Snow