

- Written by: Norcal Administrator
California will elect its first new U.S. Senator in almost a quarter-century on Tuesday, and the candidates—both Democrats—are making their final pitches to voters.
Read more: At End Of Senate Race, Harris Campaigning For Others

- Written by: Norcal Administrator
Sausalito and Marin City’s school district has been slowly gaining traction over the past 15 years by attracting parents and students back to the area’s two schools. But after disappointing test scores in recent years and a scathing report from a state agency accusing the district of diverting money away from its largely minority school parents, teachers and community members are looking for change.
Read more: Troubled Sausalito Marin City School District Could See Leadership Changes After Election

- Written by: Norcal Administrator
Who better to educate Americans than about Islam than a southern California girl who grew up to be a lawyer, scholar and writer on the subject?

Sumbul Ali-Karamali’s local appearance is being sponsored by the New School at Commonweal, and co-sponsored by the “Of One Soul” campaign of the Interfaith Council of Sonoma County.

- Written by: Norcal Administrator
California Gov. Jerry Brown is blasting a measure on next week’s ballot that would require voter approval for projects financed by revenue bonds of $2 billion or more.
Read more: Brown Hits Campaign Trail For Prop 57, Against Prop 53
- The 'Economic Hitman' Returns to Sonoma County
- Point Reyes’ Drakes Bay Dedicated as a National Historic Landmark
- Anti-Nuke Activists Reunite, Reflect
- Proposition 64 Avoids Its Predecessors Late October Drop-Off
- SAY, Supporters Getting Ready for ‘One Cold Night’
- California Regulators Examine Safety Of Food Irrigated With Oil Wastewater
- Will Durst Finds Serious Humor in Politics
- New PPIC Poll on CA Senate Race, Ballot Measures
- Making the Case for Earthquake Insurance
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases on the Rise in California
- EVs Circle the Globe in 80 Days
- Agencies Warn Of Flooding Potential In California
- Botanical Artists Capture the Diversity of Alcatraz Gardens
- Life Inside the Beach Boys
- POLITIFACT CA: Fact-Checking Claims From California's 7th Congressional District Debate
- The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast
- DMV Looks For Feedback On New Driverless Car Regulations
- Reviewing A Multi-Faceted Life
- Ad Targets Republican Voters In California Senate Race
- Coaching Boys Into Men
- Local Ballot Measures Seek To Tax And Regulate Recreational Marijuana
- Greenway Vision Coming Into Focus
- Steyer Gets In Front Of The Camera, Presaging Bid For Gov.
- Women Farmers Raise Their Voice At Sebastopol Symposium
- Strange Bedfellows Form Coalition To Increase Water Supply
- Calls Are Mounting to Restrict Glyphosate
- POLITIFACT CA Examines Bernie Sanders' Claim Prop 61 'Will Be Great' For California Taxpayers
- Exhibit Highlights Disability Rights Activism
- Legal Challenges To Statewide Ballot Measures Inevitable
- Plan to Conserve Marin’s Biodiversity and Reduce Wildfires Moves Forward
- Film Credit Increases CA Production, But Economic Benefit Is Hazy
- POLITIFACT CALIFORNIA: Fact-Checking Claims From California's U.S. Senate Debate
- The Future of the Russian River, Seen From its Surface
- Use Of Force Practices Top Week Of California Law Enforcement Training
- Peace-maker Linda Sartor Honored
- Schwarzenegger, Brown Mark 10th Anniversary Of Climate Change Law
- California Licensing Rules Create Too Many Barriers
- Would You Rather Pay A Tax On Gas... Or How Far You Drive?
- 'Cultivating Curiosity'
- Local Climate Efforts Lauded by White House
- Cell Phone Court Case Clouded
- California Creates New, Private-Sector Retirement Plan
- California To Stop Some Deals With Wells Fargo
- Deconstructing Libertarianism
- Graton Casino Shows Off New Hotel
- San Rafael Ordinance Forces Out Homeless Living in Recreational Vehicles
- Carbon Capture in New CA Climate Bill
- Sanchez Tops List In Missed U.S. House Votes
- 'Homeless Talk' Opening Conversations in Santa Rosa
- Manufacturing Efficiency Boosted with Clean Energy
- Hearing Seeks Road Map To Fix Foster Youth System Failures
- Banned Books Week Observes its 34th Year
- Goodbye To Surprise Medical Bills, Not Orphan Oil Wells
- Getting a First and Close-Up Look at Yosemite
- Reconciling Faith and Feminism
- One Year After Vetoing Drone Bills, Brown To Act On Many More
- SSU Students Developing Tiny Satellite to Monitor Earth's Ecosystem
- POLITIFACT CA: Did California Spend $5 Billion To Execute 13 People?
- Why the Ballot is So Long This Fall
- Flawed Voter Registration Drive Draws Rebuke From Secretary Of State
- Marin Rancher Among First Pioneers in Carbon Farming
- Jobs Report: Strong August For California
- The Firewatch Continues at Pole Mountain Lookout
- Brown Signs Berkeley Balcony Collapse Law
- Brown Signs Bills Distributing Cap And Trade Revenues
- Audible Evidence of Climate Change
- Marin General Considers Medical Marijuana Use
- California's Uninsured Rate Falls But Poverty Rate Still High
- POLITIFACT CALIFORNIA: Yes On 55 School Funding Claim Graded Mostly False
- HALTER Honored for Emergency Prep Efforts
- CA Counts Poll: Poverty Is A Serious Problem
- Making Local History Entertaining
- Gravel Mining in the Middle Reach of the Russian River
- CA Education Board Approves New School Accountability Standards
- Keeping Fiction Stranger Than Reality
- Viewing Russian River Issues from Midstream
- New CA Counts Poll Cites Excessive Use Of Police Force
- ‘The Wild Wisdom of Weeds’
- Russian River Kayaking Descent Resumes
- Bill Would Eliminate Statute of Limitations on Rape
- The Role of Exotic Fruits in Biodiversity
- Politifact CA: Would California’s Prop 60 Expose Adult Film Workers To Lawsuits?
- Shakespeare in the Park Gets New Meaning at Petaluma’s Vallejo Adobe
- California Assembly Dems Eye Supermajority
- 6 Reasons Why Open Space and Parks Are Vital To Our Well Being
- Postgame Wrap: A Productive 2016 California Legislative Session?
- Better Prospects for the 2016 Dungeness Crab Season
- Bill To Eliminate Surprise Medical Bills Heads To Governor's Desk
- A Small Park in Roseland Signals Bigger Things to Come
- Court Issues Warning on Jury Duty Scam
- Patents or Trademarks for Cannabis
- Obama to Headline Lake Tahoe Summit
- Would Transparency Bill Allow More Opaque Campaign Cash?
- Introducing Autism Kits for Restaurants
- POLITIFACT CA: Big Tobacco Blowing Smoke About California's Proposition 56
- San Rafael Gallery Celebrates Works of Bad Art
- A Tamer Russian River Flows into Sonoma County
- Trails Challenge Continues Through Summer
- Farmworkers Overtime Bill Delayed
- 'Of One Soul' Marshalls Resistance to Islamophobia
- The Russian River is Different in Mendocino County
- New Carbon Limits Pass Legislature, But No Cap-And-Trade
- Unpacking the Debacle that was Altamont
- Surveying the Upper Reach of the Russian River
- Assembly Extends State Climate Change Goals
- Suzanne Ciani’s Musical Odyssey
- Counties Could Hold More All-Mail Elections
- New SSU President Opens the 2016 Academic Year
- Travelers to Zika Areas Need to Prevent Infection at Home
- How Ocean Acidification Imperils the Lowly Sea Snail
- New Bodega Bay Trail Extension & Bridge Dedication Celebration
- California Lawmakers Mull How To Spend Cap-And-Trade Money
- How to Address the Impacts of Cannabis
- Senator Pulls Drug Transparency Bill After Changes
- Remembering Dyan Foster
- Best Practices for Outdoor Cannabis Cultivation
- California Water Agencies Say They Have Enough Supply For Three Drought Years
- Petaluma's World Centric Receives Honor For Its Worldwide Environment and Sustainability Efforts
- Civil Asset Forfeiture Deal Passes California Assembly
- The Healing Power of Artful Temples
- What The Oil Industry Wants In A California Climate Change Deal
- Medusa’s Return to Burning Man
- Water Carnival Returns to Veterans Memorial Beach
- California Legislature Kills Fentynal, Whistleblower Protection Bills
- Sebastopol based Toolbox Project Trains Educators in Social and Emotional Learning
- New Parent Leave Bill To Get Second Chance In California Legislature
- Plotting "The Plot Against Shakespeare"
- Brown's Housing Proposal Hits Roadblock
- Re-Thinking Cement
- Abandoned Mountain Lion Cub Finds Compassion and Care at Wildlife Rescue
- Brown Puts Electric Grid Merger On Hold
- Concrete Tanks as an Alternative for For Aging Wine
- Family Backpacking in the Sonoma Valley
- POLITIFACT: California Senator Feinstein’s Claim About Marijuana Ads On TV Goes Up In Smoke
- Soberanes Fire: 'Conundrum For Fire Managers'
- A Pair of Literary Jacks
- Bid To Extend California's Climate Change Fight In Jeopardy
- The Photography of Jack London
- Californians Conserve Less Water Under New Rules
- Jack London, Sportswriter
- Could California Legislature Take Lame-Duck Vote On Gas Taxes?
- Jack London, As Seen by His Valet
- Sanders and Clinton Delegates, Post-Convention
- A Life of Progressive Activism
- Brown's Clinton Speeches Show 30 Years Of Movement
- A Clinton Mother And Sanders Daughter Go To The Convention
- Life in a Renewable Future
- Sanders Delegates Still Think He Won California
- Scaling Down for a Renewable Future
- DNC Preview: Two Similarities With The RNC
- Getting to a Renewably Powered Future
- Playing It Safe On The Russian River
- Delegates Mixed On How To Make GOP More Competitive In California
- A Summer Camp for Organ Transplant Recipients
- California Delegation Full Of Fun Faces, Interesting Stories
- Making Beef Sustainable
- Can Trump Win California? His Delegates Think So
- Hall of Flowers Designer Honored
- Location, Location, Location: California Republican Convention Delegates So Far, And Yet So Near
- Guide Dogs for the Blind Plans New Puppy Training Center
- Who's Representing California At The RNC, And Who's Not?
- Growing Grain in Mendocino County
- Sonoma County's Magnificent Oak Woodlands
- Affordable Housing Help On Way For California Farm Workers
- 'Frackopoly' Author Challenges Natural Gas Extraction, Use
- Neither Easy Nor Cheap To Send California Delegates To RNC
- Argentinian Horse Tamer Brings Skills to Sonoma County Horsemen
- Study Shows Western Energy Market Would Save Ratepayers Money
- Wild Horses Find Peace and Protection in Northern California Sanctuary
- Little Consensus On Policing Bills At California Capitol
- Inside Baseball at the Semi-Pro Level
- CA Racial Profiling Board Meets Amidst National Police Violence
- Library Readies New Sales Tax Measure
- Low Or No California Water Conservation Targets 'Short-Sighted'
- Farm School Digs Deeper Than Dirt
- California May Water Conservation Rate Is 28 Percent
- Cameras Offer Glimpse Into Mount Tamalpais Wildlife
- How Stripping Asm. Hernandez Of Committees Strips Him Of Power
- Vineyard Sustainability Campaign Showing Progress
- POLITIFACT: Did Arnold Schwarzenegger Protect More Land Than Any California Governor In History?
- How The CA Budget Spends More Without Spending More
- North Bay Monarchs Making a Slow Comeback
- Sonoma Raceway To Host “Bike The Track”
- Voters Will Decide 17 Ballot Initiatives In November
- Sonoma Museum Opens Surfboard Exhibit
- Vermont GMO Law Sets Off Nationwide Ripples
- Gun Measures To Get Final Votes Thursday
- Who Will Take Charge of New Groundwater Management Bodies?
- VW Settlement Brings $2B To California
- Agriculture Pitching in to Battle Climate Change
- Major Changes Coming To California Public Utilities Commission
- Caring for Aging Parents
- Should California's Rainy Day Fund Be Used Even When There's No Recession?
- Monitoring California’s Black Oystercatchers
- Summer Means Camping Season in Sonoma County
- Newsom Gun Control Initiative Qualifies For November Ballot
- There’s More Than Meets the Eye to Dragonflies
- Forest Service: 66 Million Dead Trees In Sierra Nevada
- Marin’s Homeless Services Center Working with City of San Rafael for a Brighter Future
- East Bay Hospitals Pioneer ER Networking
- Sonoma Opens Homes to Talented Visitors
- Dalai Lama: Real Gun Control Comes From The Heart
- Extending EV Access to Low-Income Drivers
- Bid To End California's Death Penalty Qualifies For November Ballot
- EVs in Sonoma County Cut Emissions, Boost Economy
- Get Outdoors For Father's Day
- California Lawmakers Approve New Permitting Process For Marijuana Growers
- Sausalito’s Tall Ship Reaches a Construction Milestone with its Whiskey Plank
- PPIC Poll Looks At California Motor Voter Act
- Fugett Takes the Helm at Conservation Action
- California Legislature Considers New Transparency Rules
- SSU’s Holocaust Grove as a Teaching Tool
- CA Lawmakers Mourn Orlando Victims, Anticipate Gun Debate
- Seeking Equity in Transportation
- Resolution Would Change CA Primary Ballot
- Poverty and Transportation in Sonoma County
- Aging Drivers Should Plan for Life Without Their Cars
- State Budget Deal Reached At California Capitol
- Sudden Oak Death Bio-Blitz in Napa
- POLITIFACT: Hillary Clinton Claims Economy Does Better With Democrat In White House
- Harris, Sanchez Advance in California Senate Race
- Primary Votes Set Political Races for November
- A California Primary Day Primer
- Traffic to Muir Woods National Monument Not Expected to Ease Anytime Soon
- Clinton Focuses On Trump (Not Sanders) As She Continues California Campaign Swing
- Abandoned West Marin Town To Be Demolished For Lagunitas Creek Restoration
- 3rd Annual Trails Challenge Returns to Sonoma County
- CA Senate Votes To Expand Covered Calif. For Undocumented Immigrants
- Native Americans Invented 'Environmental Management'
- Davis The Latest City To "Feel The Bern"
- A Big Day for SSU’s Wine Institute
- Growth Worries Underlie Napa Elections
- POLITIFACT: Does California Have 'The Same Water Infrastructure’ As It Did In The 1960s?
- The Mighty, Mighty Nurses Association Supports Bernie Sanders
- Living Through the Peak of Industrial Civilization
- New Water Park Opens At Spring Lake
- Water Supply Concerns As Drought Persists In Western U.S.
- Communities in West Africa Find Healing and Balance Through Yoga
- Protesters Question SoCal Fracking Resumption
- Cap And Trade Credits Fall Well Below Target
- Measure AA Seeks Parcel Tax for Wetlands Projects
- AAA: More Californians Traveling Memorial Day Weekend
- GMO Debate Lands on Sonoma County Ballot--Again
- Former President Bill Clinton Rallies In California
- Jack London State Park’s Plowing Day Offers a Look into the Past
- Healthcare for Undocumented Adults Expands in California
- Making the Syrian Refugee Crisis Personal
- Planning Underway to Improve ‘The Springs’
- Marine Mammal Strandings
- CA Senate Passes Package Of Gun, Ammo Restrictions
- A New Airline Alights in Santa Rosa
- Building Acceptance for ‘Ugly’ Produce
- CA Counts: Sanders shifts focus to California primary with rally in Carson
- Rolling Out an Accessible ‘Hike’
- Napa Cafe Provides Path to Employment for Developmentally Disabled
- Costly Hospital Readmissions in Decline
- Brown Cites Fable In Bid To Limit New Budget Spending
- Kids Benefit from Playing Outside
- Prop 30 Extension Backers' Budget Claims Misleading
- Draft SMART Train Schedule to be Tested
- Prop 30 Income Tax Increase Extension Likely Headed To Voters
- Marin County Sheriff’s Deputies To Get Body-Worn Cameras
- California Tax Revenues Fall Below Estimates As Budget Talks Get Under Way
- Landscaping Guidelines Boost Native Plants
- Bernie Sanders Rallies Thousands of Supporters In Sacramento
- "Your Song Changed My Life"
- Castles & Kites Returns to Doran Beach
- POLITIFACT: Jerry Brown’s Half True Claim About California Doubling Florida’s Job Gains
- Gnoss Field Airport Close to Getting Runway Improvements
- Brown Signs Five Anti-Tobacco Bills, Vetoes One
- Students’ Engineering Creativity on Display at SSU
- Pathogen Killing Trees in California Can't Be Stopped
- Santa Rosa One Step Closer to Rent Control
- Theater Company Commissions Jack London-Inspired Theme
- ‘Ecological Handprints’ Captures Grass-roots Global Innovation
- ‘Ecological Handprints’ Captures Grass-roots Global Innovation
- Water Agencies Prepare Zero Trash Initiative
- Green Mary's Lending Library
- Pacific Association Baseball Tryouts
- Rev. Billy Ramps Up His Environmental Evangelism
- Discovering the New Laguna Discovery Trail
- Congress Finally Acts on Conservation Funding
- Incubator Farm Revisions Offered to Mollify Neighbors
- Nationwide, Parks Need More Support, Funding
- Sonoma & Mendocino Join in Economic Development District
- Proposed Napa Watershed Initiative Reopens Old Divisions
- Sebastopol’s Village Building Convergence Resumes
- North Coast Gardener Shares Love of Bee-Friendly Landscapes with New Book
- California Appeals Court Strikes Down Vergara Ruling
- Proposed Parking Fees for Sonoma’s Beaches Stalled Again
- An Alternative Forum for 5th District Supervisor Hopefuls
- Restored Wetlands May Be Source of Greenhouse Gases
- Landline Telephones Threatened with Extinction
- Crime Victims Rally As Brown Pushes Ballot Initiative
- Local Health Group Encourages End-of-Life Planning
- POLITIFACT: Ted Cruz' Record With The Truth As He Stumps In California
- Tall Ships Return to Bodega Bay
- Minimum Wage Deal Is The First Under New Initiative Process
- A More Robust Homeless Court to Debut
- Grazing Plays A Vital Role In Maintaining Our Parks And Open Spaces
- Governor Brown, Crime Victims, And The Elephant On The Capitol Steps
- Embracing Corporate Entrepreneurialism
- Dam Removal Front And Center In New Klamath Deals
- Documentary Seeks Support for Ukrainian Nationalists
- Drug Crime Bills Move Forward In California Legislature
- Geyserville 3rd Grader's Story Gets 'Pirated'
- Brown Signs California $15/Hour Minimum Wage
- Living With Parkinson's Disease
- The Two Sides Of Transparency
- Jobs, Housing and Inter-State Migration Assessed
- Student Enviromental Discovery Hikes Reinforce California State Science Standards
- How California Will Award Presidential Primary Delegates
- Sober Circle out to Aid Petaluma’s ‘Serial Inebriates’
- Systemic Causes For Disputes Between CSU And Faculty
- Seeking “Sustainable Solvency” for Social Security
- Mixed Reactions In California To Supreme Court Union Fee Ruling
- Revised Tobacco Sellers Licensing Measure Approved
- Volunteers Help Clean Up The Joe Rodota Trail
- Fact-Finder Favors Faculty In Dispute With CSU
- Alternative Approaches to Vineyard Frost Protection
- The Long-Term Threat To California Beaches
- Online Map to Redirect Food Waste
- Out on the Police Beat
- Non-Lethal Predator Controls for North Bay Ranchers
- Living with Faults in the North Bay
- Bill To End "Surprise Medical Bills" Gets New Life
- A Brighter Future Awaits Marin's History Museum
- California Owes $64 Billion In Unfunded Pensions
- The Covert Forces that Shaped Our Political Present
- Economic Concerns Dominate Food Forum
- Spring Lake Does Its Job During Recent Storms
- State Analyst Questions New High Speed Rail Plan
- Bill To Create UC Gun Research Center Passes 1st Committee
- Dogsled Race Inspires Local Composer’s Song Cycle
- California Experiencing "Miracle March" With Rain And Snow
- County Adopts Union Contracts
- Tobacco Industry's Threats: Provocative, But Legal
- New Documentary Focuses on Fish and Fishermen
- Should "Gig Economy" Workers Be Allowed To Organize?
- Local ‘Partners’ Aid Rural African Tribe
- A New Home for Funky Fridays
- Legislation Would Aid Beleaguered Bees
- Study: Even Limited Community College Credits Yield Economic Rewards
- Remembering the Running Fence, 40 Years Later
- CA Chief Justice Calls For Funding For Children's Attorneys, Study Of Fees
- Forum Spotlights Drug Abuse Rates, Treatment Needs
- Storms Boost Sierra Nevada Snowpack, Reservoirs
- Marijuana Measures Seek a Place on the 2016 Ballot
- As Atkins Steps Down, Affordable Housing Still Unachieved
- GMO Foes Again Push for Sonoma County Ban
- Assembly Passes New Tobacco Fees, Restrictions, Higher Min. Age
- "The Flavors of Home"
- California Revenue Bond Initiative Could Have Unintended Consequences
- Water Content In Snow Remains Below Normal
- Turning Wine Waste into Healthy Snacks
- MCO Tax Deal Passes Legislature
- Health Benefits Discovered in Wine Waste
- Brown's Tax On Health Plans Splits California GOP
- Making Better Use of Wine Waste
- Strong El Niño No Help For Long-Term California Drought
- The Grammar Diva Applies Age-old Rules to Modern Usage
- Sierra Snowpack Melts With Dry February
- Aging in America is Changing
- Half-Billion Dollar Budget Bill Is Part Of California Tax Bargain
- Concern Over Coastal Commission’s Direction
- Crab Fishermen Retrieve Lost Gear
- Anti-aging Drug Development is an Uncertain Path
- Feinstein Calls For Apple To Decrypt Shooters' iPhones
- Cells May Hold a Key to Aging
- IRS: Beware Of Scam Phone Calls
- Erosion Watch on the Sonoma Coast
- Clinton Or Sanders? California Legislative Women's Caucus Split
- SE Greenway Advocates Report Progress
- Audit: Covered California Remains "High-Risk"
- Cover Crops Improve Soil, Mitigate Climate Change
- Unions React To Friedrich Case, Post-Scalia
- Mercury Found in Coastal Fog
- Could Scalia's Absence Reshape California Politics?
- Legal Challenge Could Freeze Billions In Funds For California's Bullet Train
- Becoming Independent Expands Services for Autistic Young Adults
- Insurance Industry Backs Brown's Tax On California Health Plans
- Santa Rosa Advances Cannabis Cultivation Regulations
- Scientists Say Levees Can Increase Flood Risk And Long Term Damage
- Tick Borne Diseases
- Why Are You Paying $.77 More For Gas Than The Rest Of The U.S.?
- CSU Faculty Set April Strike Dates
- DOJ Announces Mortgage Settlement
- An Insider’s History of the Black Panthers
- Study Links Oil And Gas Activity in California To Earthquakes
- Community Colleges Offer Upbeat Message On Student Success
- SMART Roll-out Gathers Momentum
- Presidential Authority to Declare National Monuments Upheld
- Water Conservation Continues Downward Slide
- County Sets Parameters for Chanate Redevelopment
- California Senate Race Fundraising Mirrors Polls
- Dick Spotswood Samples the Iowa Caucuses
- Reservoirs Filling, Sierra Snowpack Above Average
- Guerneville Health Center Carries On Despite Fire
- California Regulators Approve New Rooftop Solar Program
- Runoff and the Russian River