Sonoma County on Tuesday evening officially issued a shelter in place order for residents that will take effect on Wednesday after midnight and last for three weeks, joining several other counties in the region in taking that step in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Interim Public Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase earlier Tuesday had recommended issuing the order, with…

Sonoma County on Tuesday evening officially issued a shelter in place order for residents that will take effect on Wednesday after midnight and last for three weeks, joining several other counties in the region in taking that step in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Pete Suratos reports.

Sonoma County on Tuesday evening officially issued a shelter in place order for residents that will take effect on Wednesday after midnight and last for three weeks, joining several other counties in the region in taking that step in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Terry McSweeney reports.

Sonoma County officials on Saturday reported that county’s first confirmed case of coronavirus contracted via “community spread,” without a known source of transmission.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 9-year-old boy.

Voters in Sonoma and Marin counties rejected a 30-year extension of a quarter-cent sales tax for the operation of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit’s SMART train system.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 9-year-old boy.

Voters in Sonoma County have rejected Measure G, a half-cent sales tax that would have raised $51 million annually to supplement existing services by the county’s 38 fire agencies.

The Healdsburg School, an independent K-8 school that closed Monday following the discovery that someone involved in the care of a coronavirus patient was at the school, will open Tuesday. Head of School Andy Davies said school administrators spoke with the Sonoma County Public Health Monday afternoon. “Based on their protocols and recommendations we are pleased to announce that school…

Sonoma County is the latest to announce a presumptive positive case of coronavirus which caused the temporary closure of a school. Terry McSweeney reports.

The Sonoma County Department of Health Services on Monday confirmed a presumptive positive case of the novel coronavirus in the county.

A firefighter was injured battling a one-alarm blaze early Saturday at a vacant Santa Rosa home that was being remodeled, fire officials said. The fire was reported about 5:30 a.m. at a home in the 1200 block of Jacky Drive, according to the Santa Rosa Fire Department Crews arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the attic of…

A piglet that ran wildly among cars and brought traffic to a halt in the Mission District last has traded in city life for the country.

A homeless man in Santa Rosa was arrested Sunday evening after he chased down a woman and struck her in the head with a baseball bat, according to Santa Rosa police.

Santa Rosa police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled woman on a Sonoma County Paratransit bus he was driving in January for a nonprofit organization.

U.S. immigration agents arrested at least three people at a Northern California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his way to a hearing, in a move that appeared to flout a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make immigration arrests inside such facilities.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office has identified a woman who was found dead in Paulin Creek in Santa Rosa last weekend as Genevieve Coleman, 43, of San Francisco. A work crew was cleaning the creek area at Fiscal and Administration drives in the Sonoma County administration center when they found the body partially in the creek around 2:30 p.m. Saturday,…

Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies rescued a boy from a pond after he ran away from a probation camp near Forestville Tuesday morning, the sheriff’s office said. The teen left the probation camp at 7400 Steve Olson Road around 7 a.m. Camp staff saw him running toward Eastside Road and deputies responded within two minutes to set up a perimeter,...

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday morning said telephone landlines are not working between Guerneville and Timber Cove. Callers may not be able to use a landline to reach the sheriff’s office by dialing 911 or the dispatch number (707) 565-2121 for an emergency, according to a Facebook post sent out around 10 a.m. Callers should use a cellphone…