Homeless Campers Cleared From Joe Rodota Trail in Sonoma County
Cleanup began on the Joe Rodota Trail Friday as officials worked to evict the largest homeless camp in Sonoma County.
Watch CBS News
Cleanup began on the Joe Rodota Trail Friday as officials worked to evict the largest homeless camp in Sonoma County.
Wednesday was the day Sonoma County said it would begin removing the homeless encampment along the Joe Rodota Trail in Santa Rosa. But that still leaves the biggest problem unsolved.
Crews at the Rodney Strong Winery were cleaning up a massive wine spill Thursday after a blending tank sprang a leak and dumped more than 97,000 gallons of red wine onto the ground and into a nearby creek.
A Sebastopol tennis coach was arraigned in Sonoma County Superior Court Thursday on several counts of committing sexual acts with an underage girl he was coaching.
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to open up an emergency homeless shelter near the juvenile detention center in Los Guilicos, a location many say is impractical.
The Kincade Fire and evacuations and four PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoffs last fall cost Sonoma County $725 million in economic losses, according to a report to the county's Board of Supervisors.
Sonoma County will clear sprawling illegal encampments along the Joe Rodota Trail between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol by the end of January.
A controversial plan to solve the homeless crisis has people fired up in Sonoma County where officials plan to spend millions of dollars to buy three properties to house the homeless.
Sonoma County has been looking for a safer place to relocate the homeless people living on the Joe Rodota Trail.
A Sonoma man kidnapped and sexually assaulted a middle school student in his car and tried to abduct another student Tuesday morning in the Boyes Hot Springs area in unincorporated Sonoma County, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.
Sonoma County sheriff's deputies arrested a tennis coach Monday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a girl he was coaching for two years.
When the nation's largest electric utility preemptively shut off power last fall to prevent wildfires in California, customers lost more than just their lights — some lost their phones, too.
A hit-and-run crash Thursday evening left a 70-year-old bicyclist with major injuries near Petaluma, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A Sonoma County sheriff's K-9 named 'Rappa' helped apprehend a man accused of stabbing a victim back in November.
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Monday unanimously approved proposals to provide housing for the 3,000 homeless people in the county.
The CEO of a Sonoma County-based company pleaded guilty on Friday to wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a multi-million-dollar scheme to deceive people into enrolling in his companies' student loan repayment services programs.
The northbound No. 2 lane of U.S. Highway 101 was closed at the South Cloverdale Boulevard off-ramp Wednesday morning when sodium hypochlorite leaked from a burning truck on the highway.
The homeless problem in Sonoma County has gotten so bad, elected officials met Tuesday morning to declare a state of emergency.
The destructive Kincade Fire burned hundreds of buildings in Sonoma County, including the Soda Rock Winery. But the owner's plans to rebuild it from the ashes tell a tale of resilience in the fire-stricken community.
A Sonoma man is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Sonoma County Superior Court for beating a man and stealing his car last month in a case that ended with that man dying in an altercation with authorities three days later.
A dozen unlicensed contractors are scheduled to appear in Sonoma County Superior Court on Tuesday for allegedly providing illegal bids on jobs, county prosecutors said.
A 23-year-old man driving a Ford Mustang was killed and three boys in his car were injured in a crash on northbound U.S. Highway 101 in Sonoma County on Saturday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A man who died in custody after a pursuit and struggle with officers and Sonoma County sheriff's deputies pursuing what they thought was a stolen vehicle last week was actually the registered owner of the car, Santa Rosa police announced.
A woman was taken to a Santa Rosa hospital late Saturday afternoon after her vehicle veered off state Highway 1 into the Russian River.
Forecasters are warning that an atmospheric river flowing into the region this weekend could bring flash flooding and mudslides to the Kincade Fire burn area.
