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The voice of Sonoma and Napa counties – and the North Bay. Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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The Press Democrat today received the Pulitzer Prize, the highest award in American journalism, for its coverage of the October wildfires. See story at . #PulitzerPrize #sonomacounty #sonomacountyfires
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Nine jurors unanimously agreed with Vanessa Bryant and her attorneys that the photos invaded her privacy and caused emotional distress.
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2 years
Veteran @NorthBayNews photojournalist Kent Porter ( @kentphotos ) has been honored as national photojournalist of the year (small market) by the National Press Photographers Association, @NPPA We are so happy for Kent and proud to work with him!
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Trump tells North Carolina rally crowd: Vote for Bishop in special election
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Vera Korkus shared her story with local students, recounting how she escaped from a death march from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945
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7 years
Guy Fieri fires up the grill for Santa Rosa fire evacuees and first-responders. #santarosafire #GuyFieri
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What was supposed to be a rally against the Sonoma County Library's upcoming "Drag Story Hour" was overshadowed by over 130 counterprotesters outside the Petaluma Regional Library.
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5 years
Singer Josh Groban, Sebastopol winery team up for charity pinot noir
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Curry family donates Family Feud prize to Sonoma fire recovery fund
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California passes Proposition 17 allowing felons on parole to vote
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People in robes, masks arrested near Camp Meeker
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6 years
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Press Democrat for wildfire coverage
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3 years
Trick or treating with his four children on Halloween trumped an international stage devoted to climate change, Gov. Newsom said Tuesday.
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Santa Rosa family evacuates amid Sonoma County wildfire with pony in the car's back seat
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Smith: Santa Rosans thank the inmate firefighters who saved their homes
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Boy hailed as hero in senior facility fire near Healdsburg
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Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, dies at 46
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Dog waited weeks for owners at home burned in Camp fire
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Dr. Mark Shapiro was taught to stay silent about ‘controversial’ topics. Now he believes it’s his duty to tell the truth about firearms.
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“After many months of zero or few pediatric COVID cases, we are seeing infants, children and teens with COVID pouring back into the hospital, more and more each day,” one Houston doctor said.
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Heroic firefight spares Oakmont retirement community from devastation
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5 years
Firefighters valiantly block #KincadeFire from torching Windsor. The biggest challenge came Sunday afternoon when the blaze pushed south, crossed Highway 128 and flames ran all the way to Windsor’s northeast flank. Read more:
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#KincadeFire : Sheriff defends widespread fire evacuations; how he made his decisions: “I am 100% convinced we made the right decision on the evacuations that we did,” Essick said in an interview Sunday morning.
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The protest was a response to the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion in the United States in 1973. Hundreds attended the gathering in Santa Rosa.
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Sonoma County had the highest voter turnout in California
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A 30-mile stretch of Highway 101 has been closed between Santa Rosa and Cloverdale. It is designed to prevent people from entering the path of the #KincadeFire , not to prevent people from evacuating. Latest:
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First rebuilt home in Sonoma County completed in Coffey Park
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Breaking: Cal Fire announcing mandatory evacuation orders covering the cities of Healdsburg and Windsor. 50,000 people will be affected. Sheriff Mark Essick: “We want you to start evacuating now."
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Check out the size difference between a bobcat, mountain lion and bear, captured in the Mayacamas Mountains. (h/t @AudubonCanyon )
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6 years
Smith: A Pulitzer comes to a newspaper proud to tell the story
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Pink 'watermelon' snow found at Yosemite
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4 years
Over 20-year-old white hand sculpture painted black outside Santa Rosa mall
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A young male wolf has been traveling near Yosemite National Park, the farthest south a wolf has been tracked in California in more than a century, officials said.​
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4 years
During another menacing wildfire, Guy Fieri fires up his mobile kitchen once again
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The Department of Justice alleges Juli Mazi sold customers ‘immunization pellets,’ then mailed fake cards indicating they’d received Moderna shots.
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Ozzie, long presumed dead after going missing during the chaos of the 2017 firestorm, was found alive and returned home to readjust to domestic life after six years on the streets.
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The $6.5 million purchase ensures the property, know as the Russian River Redwoods, will never be developed or commercially logged.
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5 years
Latest: Firefighters stop flames from burning Healdsburg, Windsor #kincadefire
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7 years
Dog that stayed behind with goats during Tubbs fire found safe
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5 years
Containment on the #KincadeFire has jumped to 60 percent
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Storms replenish key reservoirs amid California drought
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4 years
BREAKING: Joe Biden wins Pennsylvania, captures enough votes to secure White House. Details:
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Guy Fieri serves free lunch to hospital workers, 1st responders in Santa Rosa
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‘We were certain we were going to lose our town’: Windsor salutes firefighters for Kincade beat down
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4 years
This is the perimeter of the Glass fire as of 5 p.m. Monday. More updates here:
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7 years
Samoan fire crew sings beautiful hymn amid Northern California wildfires
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Metallica, Dave Matthews headline fire benefit concert for North Bay
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Jurors can’t agree on verdict in Petaluma animal activist trial, judge urges more deliberation. Click the image for more info.
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Press Democrat wins national award for coverage of October wildfires
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2 years
Three months, 50 trail cameras and hundreds of hours of volunteer time helped snare a man suspected in as many as 10 fires in the area, authorities say.
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Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano emerges as strong leader in unprecedented disaster
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Rare bald eagle pairs show up at Lake Sonoma, the Laguna, Jenner and Gualala
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First new home rises from ruins of Coffey Park
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Coffey Neighborhood Park, a 5-acre gem destroyed in the Tubbs fire, reopens to rave reviews
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Windsor middle school student Tajly Schwaiger speaks out about recalling Foppoli: “I don’t care if he’s your friend, I don’t care if he’s your coworker … He has failed us and eliminated our trust in him.”
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Ginny Fifield, with the Audubon Canyon Ranch, shared this video of a mountian lion walking in a flurry of snow on Monday, taken from one of the trail cameras in the Mayacamas Mountains.
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Cal Fire: North Bay fire season to end on Monday
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7 years
A salute to Sonoma County wildfire first responders
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Santa Rosa residents thank the inmate-firefighters who saved their homes
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“We’re just kind of chomping at our nails, waiting for some kind of rain to put an end to fire season, because if we can get out of this year without a significant fire, I think that’s going to be a big win for the Bay Area as a whole.”
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In Santa Rosa's Coffey Park, first Christmas trees become a symbol of hope
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Thousands gather in Santa Rosa to condemn gun violence
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Fire maps indicate growing containment lines in Sonoma County wildfires
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A protest is happening now at Old Courthouse Square in downtown Santa Rosa advocating for abortion rights in the wake of the leaked U.S. Supreme Court brief that suggested Roe v. Wade would be overturned.
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'Power’s out? Party’s on': Another craft brewery makes PG&E-themed beer
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Trump administration rejects disaster assistance for 6 California wildfires
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Here's Thursday's A1. Grateful for all of the firefighters, volunteers, rescue personnel and everyone working hard out there. #SantaRosa
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Breaking: Graton casino cancels planned New Year’s Eve party with 4,000 guests
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Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation and former first daughter, will visit Napa on Thursday afternoon to tout the foundation’s early literacy initiative and its collaboration with state agencies.
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The Press Democrat
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Pasadena firefighters help Oakmont residents clean up after fire
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There's a lot of information about the #GlassFire today. If you're feeling overwhelmed, here's six things to know right now (1/7)
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Santa Rosa police give out more than a thousand Halloween costumes to fire-stressed kids
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In downtown Santa Rosa and elsewhere in Sonoma County, people gathered to protest accounts of children being separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. They joined hundreds of thousands of others as #familiesbelongtogether marches took place across the country.
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A conservation group is planting more than 30,000 milkweed plants in California in the hope of giving Western monarch butterflies new places to breed.​
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As firefighters depart Santa Rosa, residents gather to say thanks
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Brett Crozier’s Santa Rosa High classmates salute him in a video
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Odessa Gunn returning to Santa Rosa with 10 dogs rescued from Yulin Dog Meat Festival
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A magnitude 3.4 earthquake centered 2 miles from Santa Rosa struck about 5:45 am on Thursday.
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LATEST: Kincade fire now 25,955 acres, 11% contained. Threatens to overrun 23,500 structures. Read more: . #KincadeFire #kincadefires #fire #Fires #californiawildfires #wildfire #SonomaFire
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'Not following this f--king health order': Sheriff won't change course, backing away from deal to continue enforcement
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Sonic plans to open drive-in restaurant in Santa Rosa
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Sonoma County confirms first community-acquired case of coronavirus. The previous three were all connected to cruise ships.
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Bills put forward by Rep. Jared Huffman and three other California Democrats would add 535,000 acres of new wilderness and protect hundreds of miles of rivers in the state.​
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Stephen and Ayesha Curry's foundation feed 300,000 Oakland families every week
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The Shiloh Ridge subdivision north of Santa Rosa is the latest front in the battle against the #KincadeFire and the fight is unfolding now. @kentphotos is on the scene.
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#KincadeFire impacting structures on near faught/ Shiloh Ridge. ⁦ @NorthBayNews
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Anti-Trump protesters form human chain across Golden Gate Bridge
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#Kincadefire : Largest evacuation in Sonoma County history underway
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"They survived and they're still in the park," says Lassen spokesperson Kevin Sweeney. "It's a really neat story."
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The $6.5 million purchase by Save The Redwoods League ensures the property, know as the Russian River Redwoods, will never be developed or commercially logged.
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A bit of holiday cheer: Saxophonist @DaveKozMusic and singer @SheleaMusic played Christmas tunes in the lobby of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital before touring the hospital’s pediatric ward and playing for patients.
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FEMA assistance center opens in downtown Santa Rosa. #santarosafire #FEMA
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Thompson has spent a decade fighting to pass the Bipartisan Background Checks Act following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.
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Fieri and a group of his friends visited the livestock auction over the weekend, buying 16 hogs to donate to local charities.
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