Santa Rosa Neighborhood Faces Water Crisis After Fire Evacuations
Apart from wildfires, residents in one Santa Rosa neighborhood are dealing with another crisis: it could be weeks before people have access to safe drinking water.
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Apart from wildfires, residents in one Santa Rosa neighborhood are dealing with another crisis: it could be weeks before people have access to safe drinking water.
A repeat sexual offender was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison after pleading no contest in August to eight felony sex offenses, Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch announced Friday.
Authorities in Santa Rosa announced Friday that a dozen vehicles have been impounded so far in response to recent sideshows.
A Santa Rosa man vacationing in Florida was attacked by a shark while swimming in waters off Miami's South Beach.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plans to close the mobile registration intake center Saturday that it has been operating in Santa Rosa for survivors of the August wildfires.
Police in Santa Rosa on Thursday announced the arrest of a suspect in the slaying of a transient found shot dead by a security guard on September 22.
Charlie Brown and his friends from the "Peanuts" comic strip turned 70 years old Friday.
Officials in Sonoma County downgraded some evacuation orders connected to the Glass Fire into evacuation warnings on Friday, allowing some residents to return.
The Glass Fire roared through the steep, rugged canyons near Angwin early Wednesday while an army of weary firefighters, on the brink of exhaustion from nearly two months of intense firefights in Northern California, battled to keep the blaze from spilling over Highway 29.
Whether they were technically allowed to or not, this was the day many people returned home on the eastern edge of Santa Rosa.
Cal Fire on Tuesday night issued an immediate evacuation order in Napa County for all areas west of State Routes 29 and 128 (Foothill Boulevard) to the county line, between Diamond Mountain Road and Petrified Forest Road.
For all the talk of Sonoma Strong, Wine Country Strong, residents here say the fatigue of the fires is real.
The destructive advance of the Shady Fire -- a wildfire included in the Glass Fire Complex -- slowed Tuesday morning but not before its massive cloud of hot, wind-whipped embers had left behind a random path of burned homes and vegetation in the Skyhawk and Oakmont neighborhoods.
While home after home burned to the ground as flames tore through the Skyhawk neighborhood in Santa Rosa, some neighbors picked up garden hoses and took a stand against the Glass Fire.
The Glass Fire, as it's being called, started on the east side of the Napa Valley early Sunday morning. So how did it get all the way to Santa Rosa in such a short time?
The raging Glass Incident wildfire, comprised of the Glass, Shady and Boysen Fire, has burned over 36,000 acres, destroyed a total of 113 structures and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in Napa and Sonoma Counties.
KPIX 5 followed fire crews into the hills of East Santa Rosa above Calistoga Road, where firefighters were working hard to protect the many homes scattered in the area.
Santa Rosa city buses raced into the Oakmont Village retirement community early Monday, frantically loading up elderly residents for a dash to safety as a flames and a massive cloud of embers from the Shady Fire advanced into Sonoma County and consumed homes in the Sky Hawk and Oakmont neighborhoods.
Two young girls were injured and three alleged sideshow drivers arrested, including one on hit-and-run charges, as police broke-up a large sideshow taking place in a local supermarket parking lot late Friday night.
A vegetation fire was burning just outside of Santa Rosa city limits Thursday afternoon.
Sonoma County supervisors on Tuesday reached an agreement to extend a cap on the number of vacation rentals in the county for three months, a far cry from the 22 months staff had sought.
Two suspects were being held Wednesday morning on charges stemming from a late night verbal altercations that ended in a stabbing and a chase through a Santa Rosa neighborhood as the victim fled for their life, authorities said.
Police were looking for the public's help in solving a fatal shooting in Santa Rosa.
A 24-year-old Santa Rosa man was dead and another man wounded when a gunman opened fire on their vehicle as they drove in Santa Rosa in what police believe may be a gang-related shooting, authorities said.
Thousands of North bay residents woke up with no electricity Tuesday, due to PG&E's Planned Safety Power Shutoffs. By evening, many were still in the dark.
