Whew! One More Storm to Go…
Saturday’s storm blew through the North Bay with mid-winter fury, dropping anywhere from one half to 3 inches of rain. Santa Rosa recorded almost an inch and a half, while […]
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Whew! One More Storm to Go…
Saturday’s storm blew through the North Bay with mid-winter fury, dropping anywhere from one half to 3 inches of rain. Santa Rosa recorded almost an inch and a half, while […]
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125th Rose Parade Wet and Wonderful
It was a wet but wonderful Luther Burbank Rose Parade that hit the streets of Santa Rosa on the event’s 125th anniversary. As Karl Van Amburg and producer Michon Sardella […]
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Saturday Washout as Another Storm Arrives for the Weekend
Enjoy Friday’s party sunny skies, as the break will be short-lived with another unusually powerful May storm lining up to dump winter-like rain on Sonoma County and the North Bay. […]
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$10 Million Award Fuels Airport Expansion, More Sought
Although they had asked for $20 Million, Thursday’s announcement of an initial $10 million dollar FAA grant for the Sonoma County Airport means big terminal expansion plans can now move […]
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Record May Rains and More on the Way
As advertised, the unusually strong and wet late season storm that began Tuesday night dropped record 24 hour rains by late Wednesday in spots all across the North Bay. Here’s […]
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Author Explores Living in Flow
A Bay Area physicist and author brought his research into the science of synchronicity, and life flow, to a receptive Santa Rosa bookstore audience this week. Karl Van Amburg and […]
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Very Wet and Powerful May Storm Approaching
If you’ve placed the fancy patio furniture outside, you might want to cover it for a few days as an unusually large and wet late spring storm system is headed […]
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The Barlow Shines at Block Party
The sun broke out over Sebastopol’s Barlow shopping district on Saturday, as dozens of merchants and hundreds of shoppers gathered to celebrate the center’s ongoing recovery from February’s devastating floods. […]
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New Fire District Showcased at Resiliency Day
A year and a half after the October firestorms, a community came together this weekend to celebrate moving forward. The Luther Burbank Center was host to the first Community Resiliency […]
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Female Entrepreneurs Hosted in Sonoma County
Some 400 female entrepreneurs and company founders from across the U.S. descended on Sonoma County this week, here to network, share advice and attend workshops focused on succeeding in business. […]
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Fire Victims Voice Anger and Frustration
Plagued by construction delays and missed deadlines, a group of Sonoma County fire victims are voicing frustration over their dealings with an out-of-town contractor, who they claim has left a […]
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Who Knew? Late Spring Rain Coming Next Week!
It may not surprise anyone after our wet winter that spring would turn out cool and showery. However, a pattern setting up for next week is a bit unusual, and […]
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Teachers Push Back on Superintendent Pay
The issue wasn’t on the agenda, but that didn’t stop dozens of teachers from descending on the Santa Rosa School Board meeting on Wednesday night, to once again speak out […]
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Healdsburg Gets Aggressive on Affordable Housing
As cities throughout the North Bay struggle to find and build affordable housing, Healdsburg has embarked on a bold plan…designed to get results fast. Just this week, the city voted […]
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Huge Fog Push Clearing, Warmer Ahead
The pesky cutoff low that gave us lots of clouds and a few showers has headed south, leaving us in the midst of a slow warming trend across the North […]
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Special Welcome Home for Coffey Neighbors
In Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park, neighbors are reaching out with small gestures this spring, to make sure those returning to their new, rebuilt homes, feel loved, and valued. Karl Van […]
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Airport’s Big Expansion Awaits Federal Dollars
With exciting new flights and burgeoning passenger volume, Sonoma County Airport is banking on a 20 million dollar federal grant to help it grow into the future. But although the […]
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Public Weighs In on Downtown Future
What should downtown Santa Rosa look like five or ten years from now? That was the question the city of Santa Rosa took directly to the people on Wednesday night, […]
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Topsy-Turvy Spring Continues
After a cool and cloudy beginning to the week, a moderate warming tend is in store for the North Bay starting midweek, and continuing through Friday. We may see highs […]
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Wildfire Cottages Rise with Volunteer Help
A small home community now taking shape in Santa Rosa’s Fountaingrove neighborhood is testing how new, innovative construction techniques can get affordable houses built cheaply, and efficiently. But this Habitat […]
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New Voting Technology Rolled Out for Sonoma County
With interest in the 2020 general election beginning to heat up, Sonoma County is rolling out a new, high tech voting system that will be used for the first time, […]
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Stakeholders Join Forces on Highway 37 Future
Its repair and redesign will take years, and likely cost more than a billion dollars. But the future of flood-prone Highway 37 and the sensitive wetlands it crosses is a […]
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Motel Purchase Could Shelter Homeless
A real estate purchase quietly moving forward could have a dramatic impact on the availability of housing for Santa Rosa’s homeless population. The project would turn an aging Mendocino Avenue […]
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UPDATE: Heat Peaks Today. Cooler Next Week!
Our current heat spell is reaching a peak today, with numerous high 80s and even low 90s across Sonoma County and the North Bay. Santa Rosa is forecast to top […]
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Spring Turns on the Heat!
A spring cold front swooped through the North Bay early Saturday, giving us breezy, cool and partly sunny skies. Here is the frontal passage on satellite. The cold front produced […]
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Public to Weigh In on Santa Rosa Downtown
The city of Santa Rosa is kicking off an aggressive push to gather public input on sweeping changes planned for the city’s downtown core. Starting May 1st, city officials will […]
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Caritas Project Attacks Homelessness
Homelessness is a tough, multilayered problem, and one that needs an aggressive response. That’s the message Catholic Charities has brought to Santa Rosa with it’s new Caritas Village project. If […]
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Monday Soaking, Then Hottest Temperatures of the Year
Our exciting, wet winter is sending us one last shot of storminess on Monday, a disturbance that will arrive in the afternoon as a nice soaking rain before quickly clearing […]
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Judge’s Decision Huge for North Bay Commuters
When a San Francisco judge this past week threw out a challenge to Regional Measure 3, the North Bay’s transportation leaders let out a collective sigh of relief. If the […]
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Rebirth for Coffey Neighborhood Park
Eighteen months after it was scorched in the October 2017 Firestorm, the community park that anchors Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park neighborhood, is about to be reborn. Reporter Karl Van Amburg […]
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