Martin Espinoza

Emotional scenes unfolded in Santa Rosa school drop-off lines Thursday as families grappled with the closure of three elementary schools, leaving students, parents and educators facing uncertainty and difficult transitions.

The severance agreement disclosed by the county spells out the terms of Tina Rivera’s resignation, including a non-disparagement clause and a general agreement not to bring any lawsuit against the county.

Health care workers to picket local Providence facilities in call for higher wages, increased staffing

Hundreds of Sonoma State University students and faculty filled the school’s Seawolf Plaza Thursday afternoon to protest $20 million in budget cuts.

Where some see the academic and athletic cuts as a chance to reorient the troubled university, many others in the SSU community fear the blow could cripple a institution without a clear identity.

Watch Duty, founded in 2021, when it had about 6,000 North Bay users, now has 16 million active users, more than half of whom have downloaded the app since the start of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles County.

Exploring Sonoma County’s trails — with a doctor’s prescription for fitness

Even as they signaled support for state laws that limit cooperation with federal authorities, the Board of Supervisors and Sheriff Eddie Engram made clear Friday that they cannot block those authorities from local enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.

The aging population of the United States has lured many companies into elder care, but at what cost to the elderly?

Sonoma and Napa counties are stemming wildfire- and pandemic-era population declines, new data shows