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photo credit: Google Maps An aerial view of the Russian River County Sanitation District's plant at 18400 Neely Road near Guerneville. After 5 million gallons of wastewater were discharged into the Russian River during stormy weather in January, Sonoma County water agencies are being required by a regional water board to improve their management of a sewage network that treats wastewater from Guerneville and surrounding unincorporated communities.

Saturday, August 29 at 9pm on KRCB Enjoy a magical concert filmed on New Year's Eve in 1999 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Staged as an original, Broadway-style musical in which Barbra looks back at her past, the production featured an orchestra conducted by Marvin Hamlisch. Stream NorCal on Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire by downloading the NorCal App on your device. You can also stream KRCB and KPJK from the NorCal website.

photo credit: Noah Abrams/KRCB Sonoma County officials ceremonially break ground on a new center for youth mental health crisis and substance use treatment in Santa Rosa on 26 August, 2026. From right: Director of Public Infrastructure Johannes Hoevertsz, 1st District Supervisor Rebecca Hermosillo, Behavioral Health Division Director Jan Cobaleda-Kegler, and Sonoma County Director of Health Services Nolan Sullivan.

photo credit: Reilly Payne Students work with STEM kits from a free lending library provided by Sonoma Clean Power and the CTE Foundation. A new tech training kit is putting thousands of dollars of equipment into classrooms in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. Students are getting hands-on STEM education – that’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – with new kits created under a partnership between Sonoma Clean Power and the Career Technical Education Foundation.

photo credit: Town of Windsor Former Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli addresses the Windsor Town Council during a meeting on Dec. 19, 2018. For almost six weeks, seven women who accuse former Windsor Mayor Dominic Foppoli of sexual assault have been presenting their evidence and testimony to a Sonoma County jury. Now, Foppoli's attorneys are presenting their defense and calling their own witnesses.

photo credit: Flickr A California Senate committee just gutted one of the state's most substantial DUI reform bills in years, despite widespread support from other lawmakers and families of drunk driving victims. The bill would have required in-car breathalyzers for anyone convicted of a DUI, bringing California in line with most states. State law currently only requires the devices, called ignition interlock devices, after repeat offenses or injury crashes.

The Northern Saw-whet Owl is very small. And they’re active at night. During their breeding season, in early spring, male Saw-whet Owls make this call to attract females. Its steady rhythm can carry on for quite some time! Saw-whet Owls are stealthy hunters. Like other owls they have incredibly acute hearing. They listen for the movement of a mouse on the ground and can silently swoop in for the kill without even seeing it! You’re far more likely to hear a Northern Saw-whet Owl than to see one.

photo credit: Northern California Public Media Gravenstein apples growing in Sonoma County. Sonoma County’s iconic apple industry is at a critical turning point. In this special feature episode, host Michelle Marques takes an in-depth look at how local growers, activists, and leaders are stepping up to safeguard the region's agricultural heritage.

photo credit: California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection Image graphic showing the different zones 0-2 around a home. Each zone has different rules and best practices for guarding against wildfire. California this week approved the nation's most stringent wildfire prevention rules for homeowners. Zone 0. It's the first 5 feet around your home, and depending on where you live in California, you might need to clear them of anything flammable.

photo credit: City of Sonoma Sonoma's city council of John Gurney (back row left), Ron Wellander (back row right), Sandra Lowe (front left), Patricia Farrar-Rivas (front center), and Jack Ding (front right). The city of Sonoma, like Cotati this week, declared the winners of November's city council races weeks early. It's all because the elections would've been uncontested.