Nature and the Environment

  • Infrastructure Bill May be Key to Highway 37 Future

    Infrastructure Bill May be Key to Highway 37 Future

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    Share with FriendsAs 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 […]

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  • Quick Atmospheric River Arrives Friday

    Quick Atmospheric River Arrives Friday

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    Share with FriendsIn 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 […]

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  • Whale Watchers Gather Along Sonoma Coast

    Whale Watchers Gather Along Sonoma Coast

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    Share with FriendsThey 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 […]

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  • Thunderstorms, High 70s, then Atmospheric River?

    Thunderstorms, High 70s, then Atmospheric River?

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    Share with Friends 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 […]

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  • Next Stormy Blast Headed In

    Next Stormy Blast Headed In

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    Share with FriendsOur 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 […]

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  • Winter’s Wet Curtain Call

    Winter’s Wet Curtain Call

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    Share with FriendsThe 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 […]

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  • Volunteers Attack Sonoma Coast Debris

    Volunteers Attack Sonoma Coast Debris

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    Share with FriendsOn 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. […]

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  • Storm Door Reopens Late Tuesday

    Storm Door Reopens Late Tuesday

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    Share with FriendsAfter 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 […]

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  • Near 80 Degrees on Sunday?

    Near 80 Degrees on Sunday?

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    Share with FriendsOur 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 […]

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  • Curbside Debris Pickup Begins

    Curbside Debris Pickup Begins

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    Share with FriendsAlmost 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 […]

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  • Hang in There.  The Sun is Coming!

    Hang in There. The Sun is Coming!

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    Share with FriendsWaterlogged residents of the North Bay who feel like they have forgotten what the sun looks like can take heart.  After a few more days of off and […]

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  • $2.5 Million for Curbside Debris Cleanup

    $2.5 Million for Curbside Debris Cleanup

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    Share with FriendsAt a special Thursday meeting, Sonoma County Supervisors approved 2.5 million dollars in funding to clean up household flood debris that has been collecting curbside all across the […]

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