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If wine is on a holiday shopping list—whether one is the host, the wine-bearing guest or the gift-giver for wine-loving and foodie friends—one may look no further than local wineries, tasting rooms and curated shops.  Magnum or a Mystery Responsible for the holiday wine selections this...

Friday, Feb. 17 8:16am. Person sleeping outside of Dollar Tree and smoking out of something that resembles a drug pipe, described as a white adult male, laying under blankets. Officers contacted and cited a 38-year-old man. Saturday, Feb. 18 1:52pm. Graffiti reported at Carson Warner Skate Park...

The blue “P” sign on Healdsburg Avenue, just north of the roundabout, is positioned on the east side of the street between two driveways. Turning into the first takes cars into Lot E, a city-owned lot of 48 parking spaces, most free for up...

There were city staff of every level, four of five city council members, one current and one past county supervisor, and Gustavo Velasquez, the state director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development—making his first visit to Sonoma County. All were on...

Friends of Redwood Auto Body owner Dennis Parrish say he passed away recently in his early 60s. Dennis has reportedly been running his "full service frame, body and paint shop" on Kennedy Lane for more than four decades. "We lost a local giant," says friend Daniel Stevens,...

Early in the morning of March 12, three Healdsburg Police officers went to Los Gatos to arrest the suspect Damian Martines-Osorio, who was now living under another alias. With the cooperation of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department, whose officers surrounded the scene, police attempted to arrest Martines-Osorio. Once again, however, he attempted to flee on foot but this time he was captured while trying to jump over a fence. The arrest was logged at 8:48am. 

Imagine Healdsburg Avenue north of downtown as a smooth mile and a half of three-lane road, with plenty of room for bikes and pedestrians as well as autos, in a meandering swerve between art-friendly landscapes in what urban designers would call a “linear park.”  That’s...

A dozen more-curious-than-normal hikers walked along Foss Creek Pathway on Thursday last week, taking the measure of the footpath from the City Hall at North and Grove streets south to the trail’s current terminus where the railroad tracks cross Front Street. Though a public notice...

He plied his trade in Sonoma County, committed one of his last robberies here