Sonoma Firefighters and the Sheriff's helicopter "Henry-1" were dispatched Sunday to Sonoma's Bartholomew Park Winery to rescue a stranded hiker. The hiker, downed by heat stroke in rugged terrain, was spotted by the H1 crew. The winery is at the end of Castle Road on... Continue

Just announced: a second drive-in theatre movie event, this one on July 4. Tickets are sold out for the Sonoma International Film Festival outdoor screening of Pixar's Up Saturday, July 3, at Sonoma Skypark on Eighth Street East. The festival has added another event on... Continue

Latest from the Sheriff's Office at about 2:08 p.m: "Missing Person has been located in Santa Rosa and in good health." Original alert: Early this morning (6/26), 74-year-old Paul Herz, who has dementia, left his residential care facility in Sonoma on foot. Herz rode the... Continue

Sonoma Valley's Congressperson Mike Thompson (CA-05) Friday marked the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, legislation to combat structural racism and discrimination in policing. “Our nation is at a critical turning point – for Black Americans and people of color the last few... Continue

How lucky are we to have this one of a kind, beautiful place called Jack London Park right here in the middle of our valley? By Mike Benziger In 2012, when the Park was scheduled for closure, a group of locals got together and became... Continue

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office is investigating as a possible hate crime the discovery of a noose hanging from a tree at an empty Sonoma Raceway, a NASCAR host site. The incident came the same weekend as national attention focused on Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama,... Continue

Corona has also shown us some hard truths about the times in which we are living, highlighting the cracks in our institutions. By Stephanie Hiller The pandemic has unmasked us. Peeling back the persona we had constructed in our busy lives, it has opened us... Continue

Do you know where this photo was taken? The answer is in this week's print issue of The Sun.   Continue

A street-improvement project that has led to minor backups and delays on portions of five Sonoma streets enters its next phase on Saturday, June 20. Crews will begin preparing for permanent striping that will be applied to roads that were worked on over the last... Continue