Sonoma County Roads

  • North Bay Power Shutoffs Begin at 4PM

    North Bay Power Shutoffs Begin at 4PM

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    Share with FriendsEven as 50 thousand residents of northern Sonoma County are being asked to leave their homes in a historic evacuation, PG&E announced that they will begin shutting off […]

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  • SMART Hopes Z-Gates will Save Lives

    SMART Hopes Z-Gates will Save Lives

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    Share with FriendsIn the wake of two recent fatalities, SMART Train has installed pedestrian Z-gates at the dangerous Golf Course Drive crossing in Rohnert Park, and plans to do the […]

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  • Forestville Slide Halts, Some Residents Return

    Forestville Slide Halts, Some Residents Return

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    Share with FriendsOne of the largest, most dangerous landslides caused by record February rains has apparently stablized, and some residents have been allowed to return to their homes. The dramatic […]

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  • No FEMA Bailout for Russian River Flood Victims

    No FEMA Bailout for Russian River Flood Victims

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    Share with FriendsAlthough President Donald Trump finally approved a federal disaster declaration in the wake of February’s Russian River floods, lower river homeowners won’t be seeing federal aid. That’s because […]

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  • Stakeholders Join Forces on Highway 37 Future

    Stakeholders Join Forces on Highway 37 Future

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    Share with FriendsIts 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 […]

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Forestville Landslide Threatens Homes

    Forestville Landslide Threatens Homes

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    Share with FriendsA slow-moving landslide, brought on by recent heavy rains, threatens homes along a hillside road in the Hacienda neighborhood of Forestville. Karl Van Amburg has more.

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  • Crews Save Road, Hold Russian River at Bay

    Crews Save Road, Hold Russian River at Bay

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    Share with Friends County road crews took advantage of a break in the rain to shore up a critical embankment on the Russian River, where erosion threatens to swallow a […]

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  • No Major Rises in Russian River Expected

    No Major Rises in Russian River Expected

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    Share with FriendsAn atmospheric river arriving in central and southern California on Tuesday and Wednesday WILL NOT cause more flooding on the Russian and Napa rivers. That’s the current word […]

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  • Monte Rio Emerges From Flood

    Monte Rio Emerges From Flood

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    Share with FriendsTiny Monte Rio, inundated by near historic flooding of the Russian River, pulls together to ride out the storms and begin recovery.

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  • Russian River Goes on Rampage

    Russian River Goes on Rampage

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    Share with FriendsIn the worst flooding in more than two decades, the Russian River left it’s banks to flood thousands of acres across Sonoma County, turning many fields into lakes […]

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