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An old-fashioned Healdsburg City Council meeting took place on Monday night, with wave upon wave of citizens queuing up to the podium to state their opinion of the council’s attempt to readopt the Hotel Ordinance first passed in December, 2018—and recently revealed to have...

As the first cannabis dispensary opened in Healdsburg, more than one customer observed he was cutting down on VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled), a key metric in the city’s goal of reducing greenhouse gasses. The next nearest dispensary is 10 miles away in Larkfield, and beyond that twice that far to Cloverdale...

When Santa Rosa chef Rob Reyes died on Aug. 23 by colliding with a bollard along the West County Regional Trail in Graton, his friends, family and employees of the La Rosa restaurant he co-owned were shocked and even outraged that a “safety” feature...

Just in time for the holiday season, the Healdsburg Tourism Improvement District (HTID) announced over $125,000 in grants to seven local organizations. Live music, friendly competitions, civic festivities and other arts, cultural and educational activities will be supported through the grants, activities that help...

By Will Carruthers A new book provides an in-depth account of the rescue of residents of two opulent Santa Rosa retirement care homes from the rapidly spreading Tubbs Fire in early October 2017. Families of residents of the Villa Capri and Varenna care homes often shelled...

Construction continues on a new, 4,162-square-foot "substation" for firefighters at the more rural north end of town. The concrete slab that will serve as a base for the main building was poured last week, the city says. Next, "the wall framing, truss installation, and roof sheathing...

George A. Palma, a 32-year-old Sebastopol man died Mon., Jan. 4 in a four-vehicle crash on SR-12, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).

For the 2025-26 school year, the projected enrollment for the Healdsburg Unified School District (HUSD) is just 1,000, according to a report from HUSD Superintendent Chris Vanden Heuvel, and with already declining enrollment the school board is interested in having a conversation about the possibility of allowing interdistrict transfers, a conversation that got tabled in 2019 due to wildfire and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The process to bring at least one, possibly two cannabis dispensaries to Healdsburg is moving into its next stage, with the submission of eight applications for the coveted business licenses. The applicants are currently in a period of evaluation by the city and HdL, the...

Richard Bugarske, long an active member of youth sports and civic organizations including Kiwanis and the Healdsburg High Boosters, as well as a former school board member, will be honored with the Pioneer Award from the Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society at their annual...