As districts across Sonoma County scramble to make ends meet , officials are turning a sharp focus on attendance rates that are tied to state funding.

A bike, a neighborhood and a few homes with For sale signs in the front yards. Put them together and you get Pedal to Properties, a new real estate office that opened in May in Sonoma. .

The New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 5-0 Thursday for a four-game sweep.

Santa Rosa drivers toot your horns: Youre the second best drivers in California, according to Allstate insurance.

The occupants of a car that overturned Thursday morning into a creekbed on Wallace Road in rural Santa Rosa escaped without injury, scrambling out of the vehicle without assistance, authorities said.

Apple Inc. announced a smaller, cheaper version of its Apple TV device for streaming movies and television shows over the Internet and into the living room. It also unveiled a new line of iPods, including a touch-screen Nano model.

Pinch-runner Darren Ford scored the go-ahead run from second base on a wild pitch and throwing error in the eighth inning, and the Giants beat the Colorado Rockies, 2-1.

A small plane crashed just before noon in a lagoon in the Redwood Shores area of Redwood City, officials said. A spokesman for the city said one body had been pulled from the water. The spokesman, Malcolm Smith, told reporters that the victim was a woman,...

The Coast Guard is saying there are no immediate signs of a spill from an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in the second such disaster in the Gulf in less than five months. The...

U.S. immigration officials said Wednesday they will consider San Franciscos request to opt out of the controversial Secure Communities program that makes it easier for federal authorities to track down and deport undocumented immigrants. Until now, the...

As Dianne Huntsberry was losing her home last year, the result of a financing scam, she also wound up in the hospital - twice - for what seemed like heart problems. I thought I was having a heart attack - I didnt know what was going on, said Huntsberry,...

The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 115 mph winds Thursday on North Carolinas dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and potentially most destructive stop on the storms...

Muni operators are trying to halt plans to restore 61 percent of the service that was cut in May. The restorations are set to go into effect Saturday and would add more runs late at night, on community routes and the busiest lines. Transport Workers Union...