Veteran
@NorthBayNews
photojournalist Kent Porter (
@kentphotos
) has been honored as national photojournalist of the year (small market) by the National Press Photographers Association,
@NPPA
We are so happy for Kent and proud to work with him!
Vera Korkus shared her story with local students, recounting how she escaped from a death march from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945
What was supposed to be a rally against the Sonoma County Library's upcoming "Drag Story Hour" was overshadowed by over 130 counterprotesters outside the Petaluma Regional Library.
“After many months of zero or few pediatric COVID cases, we are seeing infants, children and teens with COVID pouring back into the hospital, more and more each day,” one Houston doctor said.
Firefighters valiantly block
#KincadeFire
from torching Windsor. The biggest challenge came Sunday afternoon when the blaze pushed south, crossed Highway 128 and flames ran all the way to Windsor’s northeast flank. Read more:
#KincadeFire
: Sheriff defends widespread fire evacuations; how he made his decisions:
“I am 100% convinced we made the right decision on the evacuations that we did,” Essick said in an interview Sunday morning.
The protest was a response to the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion in the United States in 1973. Hundreds attended the gathering in Santa Rosa.
A 30-mile stretch of Highway 101 has been closed between Santa Rosa and Cloverdale. It is designed to prevent people from entering the path of the
#KincadeFire
, not to prevent people from evacuating. Latest:
Breaking: Cal Fire announcing mandatory evacuation orders covering the cities of Healdsburg and Windsor. 50,000 people will be affected. Sheriff Mark Essick: “We want you to start evacuating now."
A young male wolf has been traveling near Yosemite National Park, the farthest south a wolf has been tracked in California in more than a century, officials said.
Ozzie, long presumed dead after going missing during the chaos of the 2017 firestorm, was found alive and returned home to readjust to domestic life after six years on the streets.
Three months, 50 trail cameras and hundreds of hours of volunteer time helped snare a man suspected in as many as 10 fires in the area, authorities say.
Windsor middle school student Tajly Schwaiger speaks out about recalling Foppoli: “I don’t care if he’s your friend, I don’t care if he’s your coworker … He has failed us and eliminated our trust in him.”
Ginny Fifield, with the Audubon Canyon Ranch, shared this video of a mountian lion walking in a flurry of snow on Monday, taken from one of the trail cameras in the Mayacamas Mountains.
“We’re just kind of chomping at our nails, waiting for some kind of rain to put an end to fire season, because if we can get out of this year without a significant fire, I think that’s going to be a big win for the Bay Area as a whole.”
A protest is happening now at Old Courthouse Square in downtown Santa Rosa advocating for abortion rights in the wake of the leaked U.S. Supreme Court brief that suggested Roe v. Wade would be overturned.
Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation and former first daughter, will visit Napa on Thursday afternoon to tout the foundation’s early literacy initiative and its collaboration with state agencies.
In downtown Santa Rosa and elsewhere in Sonoma County, people gathered to protest accounts of children being separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. They joined hundreds of thousands of others as
#familiesbelongtogether
marches took place across the country.
A conservation group is planting more than 30,000 milkweed plants in California in the hope of giving Western monarch butterflies new places to breed.
Bills put forward by Rep. Jared Huffman and three other California Democrats would add 535,000 acres of new wilderness and protect hundreds of miles of rivers in the state.
The Shiloh Ridge subdivision north of Santa Rosa is the latest front in the battle against the
#KincadeFire
and the fight is unfolding now.
@kentphotos
is on the scene.
The $6.5 million purchase by Save The Redwoods League ensures the property, know as the Russian River Redwoods, will never be developed or commercially logged.
A bit of holiday cheer: Saxophonist
@DaveKozMusic
and singer
@SheleaMusic
played Christmas tunes in the lobby of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital before touring the hospital’s pediatric ward and playing for patients.