Tourism in Sonoma County was a record $1.32 billion industry last year, keeping it in the ranks with wine, health care and high tech as mainstays of the local economy despite a downturn.

As Sen. Hillary Clinton prepares to speak at the Democratic National Convention, her longtime local supporters say reports of party disunity are overblown and they still hope to one day see a woman in the White House.

Tourism in Sonoma County was a record $1.32 billion industry last year, keeping it in the ranks with wine, health care and high tech as mainstays of the local economy despite a downturn.

Chief says service needs to use more technology, cut bureaucracy, costs

Sonoma Academy has announced the appointment of five new coaches for its Coyotes athletic teams.

A lone surfer at Doran Beach heads out to sea Tuesday morning. Farther down the coast beaches in Marin County were closed due to a shark sighting this week.

A pedestrian who ran out onto rural Highway 29 Monday night was struck and killed, the Napa County CHP reported Tuesday.
The victim wasnt carrying any identification and efforts to determine his name and what happened were continuing Tuesday, the CHP said.

KaiserAir is building the largest private development in airport history on seven acres of leased land at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport.

Advanced Micro Devices will sell its unit that makes chips for digital TV sets to fellow chip maker Broadcom for $192.8 million in cash, the companies announced Monday.

Mike Nolan sat down with Press Democrat columnist Lowell Cohn and spoke candidly about being misquoted, Alex Smith, job security, his wife, and Mike Martz.

Now that computer programmer Hans Reiser has been convicted of murdering his estranged wife, the question of whether a Juvenile Court judge had the power to order the couples children to return to the United States from Russia is moot, a state appeals court...

The City Attorneys Office has reached a tentative settlement with the parents of a Seattle man who plunged to his death from a Nob Hill rooftop in 2006 during a rescue attempt by a San Francisco fire lieutenant, court records show. The settlement in the...

Although U.S. home prices fell faster than ever in the second quarter, the rate of acceleration slowed in June, according to a closely watched index. Experts hailed the slight deceleration as a harbinger of an eventual turnaround in the dismal real estate...

A Foster City man has pleaded no contest to elder abuse for hitting his father in the head with a hammer because he mistakenly thought the 81-year-old man had to be hospitalized before he could be admitted to a nursing home. Jayantibhai Patel, 58, entered...

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama delivered a passionate and personal introduction of her husband, Barack Obama, on Monday night, saying he wants to lead a nation that will listen to our hopes instead of our fears. Each of us also comes here tonight by way...

The thousands of Democrats on their feet Monday night in the Pepsi Center, cheering as their eyes welled with tears, knew they were witness to a last great page, written as they watched, of their most cherished icon, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts...