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Five of the candidates are Democrats, and one is Republican. The party registration in the five-county region is 51% Democratic, 22% Republican and 19% no party preference.

Just  before 8am on Thursday morning, June 9, a fire broke out in an older home on Prince Street near downtown Healdsburg, which proved fatal to a resident and several pets. The house, built in 1910, a three-bedroom wood frame structure with a walk-up front...

Healdsburg’s very own Depot District will soon have another attraction. And even if it’s several years until SMART comes to town, a new business will open on Hudson Street after many delays. Come July, expect the brews to flow and food to come out...

It was an unusual sight on Matheson Street at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church one morning last week—Father Rafael Karekatt was dressed in his ceremonial finery, offering prayers and shaking holy water inside and all around a brand new Mercedes Sprinter ambulance, blessing...

Bill Wheeler, the painter of open spaces and advocate of open living at his coastal commune, died early Tuesday morning at his remote Occidental-area home. It was the same home that was made famous by a flock of hippies searching to find freedom by living off the land exactly 50 years ago.

All felony grant theft charges against Amy Joy Covin, the owner of the popular Amy’s Wicked Slush eatery, have been dropped and the case has been dismissed, according to Sonoma County’s case database portal.

This may be the year Healdsburg joins the rest of California in the pot revolution—for the purposes of city revenue at least.  Currently, Healdsburg prohibits all commercial cannabis operations—making the city an outlier in an otherwise pot-friendly county. The city even banned medicinal marijuana dispensaries...

Healdsburg public school classes started Wednesday, Aug. 17, almost a week later than those in Geyserville (Aug. 10) and Windsor (Aug. 11), but a day earlier than Cloverdale (Aug. 12). Regardless, by the time you read this your school-aged children should be in class. In...

Healdsburg’s new wine bar, Maison, opened its doors in early June and quickly established its place in the order of things in town. Situated at 210 Healdsburg Ave., just north of the roundabout, Maison is without signage, but an inviting hand-painted sandwich board beckons...

Tuesday, Aug. 15 1:51pm. A subcontractor was removed from a job site on Healdsburg Avenue but returned with four other males. When confronted, they claimed they were there to work. They were escorted off the premises again and later the reporting party (RP) noticed damage...