SHASTA LAKE, Shasta County (CBS SF) — At least 4,000 people have been forced to evacuate by the growing Fawn Fire burning Shasta County northeast of Redding Thursday, and authorities said a Bay Area woman suspected of starting the fire was arrested. After initially burning through about 50 acres by early Wednesday evening, the wildfire… Keep Reading
QUINCY — Clutching a bag full of duct tape and snacks, Woody Faircloth climbs aboard a motorhome complete with carpet and drapes. At his side, his 9-year-old daughter, Luna, quizzes a family who has just donated the recreational vehicle, appropriately called Residency. In the distance, above hills dotted with sagebrush, smoke billows from the second-largest… Keep Reading
Things are a bit tense among the neighboring Native American tribes of Sonoma County. There, the Union Indians of Graton Rancheria are not very happy with another tribe moving to their territory. SFist Reported last week About the $ 600 million Shiloh Casino and Resort proposed outside Santa Rosa. This would represent the first establishment of a… Keep Reading
Two area businesswomen want to open a cannabis growing, manufacturing and retail distribution facility in a building that once housed a Roseland charter school, but some area residents say they object to that kind of business in their neighborhood. Old School Cannabis, which has applied for permission to operate at the site, will be considered… Keep Reading
Californians are falling well short of the governor’s call for 15% water-savings, even as state officials warn of yet another year of crippling water shortages ahead. In new water-use data released Tuesday for July, when Gov. Gavin Newsom began asking residents to voluntarily cut back because of the two-year drought, urban water consumption across the… Keep Reading
Online retail giant Amazon has applied to build a distribution center, including a 161,300-square-foot warehouse, on part of a 41-acre parcel of land near the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport. Permit Sonoma processed the application on Feb. 4 for the proposed facility, which would be located at 5015 Aviation Blvd., at the intersection with Brickway… Keep Reading
Wildfires are burning a hole in California’s wallet — and not just state government’s. With no place in California immune to the increasing, raging infernos that barrel over communities, fires touch industry and peoples’ pocketbooks in dozens of ways, from insurance and tourism losses to home hardening and fire prevention costs. First, there’s the obvious.… Keep Reading
When Sebastopol resident Dennis Judd heard about the vandalism of a fountain he commissioned to honor his mother, a Holocaust survivor who died in 2016, it was hard for him to believe the crime was a mere coincidence. Behind the fountain, which was found toppled and in pieces at Santa Rosa Memorial Park in June… Keep Reading
With a unanimous vote Tuesday afternoon by the six members of the Santa Rosa Junior College Board of Trustees, the school officially adopted a vaccine mandate for staff, faculty, trustees and students of Sonoma County’s single largest educational institution. Individuals in any of those groups who plan to step foot on campus will have until… Keep Reading
Christy Gentry and her husband have been dealing with California’s wildfires for the past four years. In 2017, the couple evacuated their Santa Rosa home for three weeks. In 2019, they were forced to cut a trip to Hawaii short and get their animals and stuff out of their house as a fire approached. “It… Keep Reading
