John Sweeney is accused of illegally repairing a levee and damaging sensitive aquatic habitat on Point Buckler Island in the Suisun Marsh.

It may not be obvious to the commuters speeding through Novato on Highway 101, but there’s an oasis of live music among the big box stores located on Vintage Way in the HopMonk Tavern, where regional ...

Two Sonoma County venues go out with the old year Sun Sets on Moonlight After three years of live local music, the Moonlight has lost its lease and will be leaving the music biz. According to owner ...

Hans-Joachim Roedelius German ambient electronic pioneer and founding member of Cluster plays solo. Oct 26 at Cafe du Nord. The Game Why isn’t his SF show sold out yet? Oh, right—he has a Dodgers ...

ALMOST everyone has done it at one time or another: You slip into a friend's kitchen for a spoon or a refill or the mop, and you just happen to look into a drawer. It's a big drawer, you notice, made ...

The official U.S. line on how Trump's peace plan to end the Ukraine war has emerged. But that story does not hold up.

After waging war on public broadcasting and the arts, the Trump administration threatened recently to cut federal funding to nine prominent colleges unless they restricted campus speech that opposed ...

In a time when elections can seem less and less important, here’s proof that getting out the votes really matters. Once again, our community of readers has come together to elect the greatest among us ...

Courtney Clifton runs a cottage food bakery, Cove & Crumb, and volunteers with kids at a nonprofit culinary camp.

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Birmingham in 1963 for protesting segregation, he argued that nonviolent protest was meant to create a “constructive nonviolent tension”—a crisis so ...

There’s no better way to bid farewell to 2025 than with Jake Ward and his North Bay Cabaret band of sexy pranksters.

It’s been a big week for the local movement against Israel’s monthslong war in Gaza, which has reportedly killed more than 30,000 Palestinians. After major anti-war protests swept the nation on Monday ...