Alana Minkler

A man died Friday morning after being hit by a SMART Train near the Petaluma River, shutting down service between the city’s two stations for several hours.

Videos and eyewitness accounts capture the fiery spectacle over Sonoma County.

Volunteers will gather at eight Sonoma County beaches Saturday for California Coastal Cleanup Day, collecting litter, logging data and even hunting for hidden “trashure chests.”

Early storm could bring drizzle, cooler days to Sonoma and Napa next week

Lake County’s Peter Fire holds at 47 acres, evacuation zone still in place

The Pickett Fire is the largest blaze this year within the six counties covered by Cal Fire’s Sonoma-Lake-Napa unit. It has burned nearly 4,000 acres and is 7% contained.

One person was hospitalized with a major injury after a head-on collision Friday morning on Highway 12 at Duer Road that briefly shut down both lanes, officials said.

Firefighters have stopped forward progress on the Berry Fire, which burned 67 acres Friday north of Lake Berryessa in Napa County, officials said.The blaze started around 10:50 a.m. in a rugged, gr…

Four people were arrested Thursday after stealing meat from at least two Santa Rosa Safeway stores and may have been headed to a third, police said.Just after 8 p.m., police got a report of a theft…

A Petaluma man — once a police officer and the victim in a local, high-profile armed robbery — was arrested Thursday after investigators said they found homemade explosives in his car a…