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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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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Council Puts Brakes on Controversial Cannabis Location
In a landmark test of its new cannabis law, the Santa Rosa City Council sided with the popular Trailhouse taproom and other established businesses, voting to halt the contruction of […]
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The Sun Will Return! Eventually….
If you live in the North Bay, you’re probably wondering if the sun will ever return. The good news is that we WILL see some nice sun breaks this week, […]
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24th Battle of the Brews Draws Thousands
Huge crowds, great beers, and a good cause. The 24th annual Battle of the Brews drew more than 3 thousand beer lovers to Santa Rosa for a good time. News […]
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Infrastructure Bill May be Key to Highway 37 Future
As the rainy season winds down across the North Bay, the hard work of recovery from the storms of the past winter continues. And nowhere is the vulnerability of the […]
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Update: Friday’s Atmospheric River Fading
Things can change pretty quickly in the spring. For the last few days, forecast trends have shown weakening in the expected atmospheric river event for Friday. In fact, the storm […]
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Quick Atmospheric River Arrives Friday
In a winter chocked full of atmospheric river events, what could be the last of the season is taking aim at the North Bay, and will arrive on Friday with […]
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Whale Watchers Gather Along Sonoma Coast
They crowd onto bluffs and spectacular overlooks along the Sonoma Coast each spring weekend, hundreds of nature lovers…eager for a glimpse of the northward migration of the California Gray Whale. […]
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Vietnam Veterans Wall Draws Thousands
Memories of a war some 40 years in the past were fresh once again this weekend, as Vietnam Veterans and those who honor them journeyed to Windsor for a special […]
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Thunderstorms, Lightning Hit Sonoma County
A line of strong thunderstorms passed through Sonoma and Napa counties around noon on Thursday, unleashing lightning, thunder, high winds, hail and heavy rain. Here is how the line looked […]
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Thunderstorms, High 70s, then Atmospheric River?
We know, it’s been a crazy winter. And although it’s not something that most of us want to hear, forecast models are coming into agreement that in a week’s time […]
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Secret Sauce for Small Business
Virtual networks and high tech tools can help small businesses reach their customers, and goals. That’s the message that business acceleration firms Hello Alice and Salesforce brought to a North […]
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Assistance for Flooding Homeless
How has recent flooding on the Russian River affected homelessness in lower river communities? That’s the question that county officials are trying to determine. County supervisors have allocated 150 thousand […]
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Debris Dumping Warnings
The Sonoma County Sheriffs department is vowing to crack down on illegal dumping in the flood ravaged areas of West County. As curbside flood debris pickup enters into its last […]
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Next Stormy Blast Headed In
Our first round of late March rain blew through Sunday night and Monday, dropping anywhere from a quarter to one and a half inches of rain across Sonoma County. If […]
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Winter’s Wet Curtain Call
The long arm of winter is not quite ready to let California out of its grasp, and that means more rain is headed our way here in the North Bay. […]
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Cheese, Bites and Booze
A delicious spring bounty of cheese and other delicacies was on display as the 13th California Artisan Cheese Festival brought hundreds to Santa Rosa for an event called Cheese, Bites […]
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Volunteers Attack Sonoma Coast Debris
On a spectacular weekend, scores of volunteers fanned out across Sonoma County’s beaches, in a push to clear the coast of debris brought downstream by Russian River flooding. Karl Van […]
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Roseland Rebirth Moving Ahead
The look of Santa Rosa’s long-neglected Roseland neighborhood will soon be changing, thanks to a project designed to bring new services, and renewed pride to the community. Karl Van Amburg […]
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Sharing Lessons in Fire Recovery
A unique gathering in Sonoma County brought the North Bay’s leaders in fire recovery together with recent victims from Paradise and Malibu, to share lessons for moving forward after disaster. […]
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St. Paddy’s Day on the Square
The Irish and the Irish at heart turned out under warm sunny spring skies to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day at Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square. News of the North Bay captured […]
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Storm Door Reopens Late Tuesday
After a glorious weekend with temperatures in the 70’s across the North Bay, rain and cooler weather is headed back our way. Initially, rainfall will be light to moderate…but it […]
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Near 80 Degrees on Sunday?
Our short but gorgeous flirtation with spring will continue through the weekend, and it looks like the warmest places in Sonoma County could push up close to 80 degrees by […]
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Cannabis Shop Gets Green Light
In the latest major challenge to Santa Rosa’s cannabis ordinance, Sonoma County’s largest school district appealed a decision to allow a cannabis dispensary near a Santa Rosa charter school. Karl […]
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Curbside Debris Pickup Begins
Almost two weeks after the worst Russian River floods in a quarter century, the county began curbside pickup of flood debris. As Karl Van Amburg reports, the effort will scour […]
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