Napa County’s public health officer has declared a local health emergency in response to the Pickett Fire, citing concerns that toxic debris inside the 6,803-acre burn area could threaten the region’s ...

Here’s one to put on your calendars right away. The fourth annual Doors Open California event, sponsored by the California Preservation Foundation, has just announced its full schedule of events ...

Emptied shelves and blowout sale signs are all that remain at Rite Aid locations in Sonoma County. After the Philadelphia-based pharmacy chain filed for bankruptcy again in May, it may close hundreds ...

The city’s first responders will be leading a family-friendly event at the Petaluma Fairgounds this Tuesday evening, Aug. 5, during the annual Night Out event. Attendees will get a chance to tour ...

Two Oakland women are suspected of carjacking an older adult couple near a Healdsburg park Sunday evening and forcing the husband to drive them away when they failed to start the couple’s Subaru ...

In a playful adjacency with the current exhibition “My Life in Blue,” Dr. Heidi Saleh will visit the Petaluma Arts Center to present a talk titled “Egyptian Blue: An Eternal Color Made for the Divine.

In the musical “Sunday In The Park With George” by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim, the titular artist begins the evening with the word “white,” which he describes as “a blank page, or canvas.” But ...

Lea el artículo en español aquí. Activists across the North Bay are taking to the streets Thursday to, again, join nationwide and international protests against the Trump administration — this time in ...

With President Donald Trump’s signature Friday, his hardfought and sprawling domestic policy legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is now law, and its effects will start to play out in ...

Lea el artículo en español aquí. A sea lion — likely the same one that had been turning heads around downtown Petaluma for weeks — ended up in an unusual place Saturday morning: sunbathing in a ...

Copperfield’s in the heart of downtown Petaluma will be downsized and will eliminate its used books department by the end of September, the store has said. The changes also include cutting about 60% ...

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