Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield.

The Cotati City Council is moving quickly to fill a vacancy created by the resignation last week of Kay Rivers.

Press Democrat readers comment on Sonoma State budget cuts, and more ...

Sonoma County’s flagship university is cutting staff, academic programs and sports in the face of a $24 million deficit. The ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions ...

Maria Carrillo jumped Montgomery in The Press Democrat’s girls basketball rankings this week, the only significant change as ...

Tens of thousands of people at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy bath in the country’s northern ...

Petaluma police announced the arrest of a man suspected of vandalism after officers used the city’s array of license ...

Windsor is out and Piner is back in The Press Democrat’s boys basketball rankings as the regular season enters the home ...

Sonoma County-based Northern California Public Media has begun renovations at its new 24,000 square-foot headquarters in ...

Tyler Coester and Soso Prak, Piner boys basketball: The Prospectors have gotten back in the NBL-Redwood race with a five-game ...

One of President Trump's first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions ...