For the second year in a row, The Press Democrat was honored as the best newspaper of its size in California, taking home the top award for general excellence in the state’s largest journalism contest. In all, the newspaper and its four sibling publications in Sonoma Media Investments, the Sonoma Index-Tribune, Petaluma Argus-Courier, North Bay Business Journal and Sonoma County Gazette, won a total of 89 awards from the California News Publishers Association, including 16 first places.