The Sonoma Jet Center at the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport will host Green Fuel Day, celebrating sustainable aviation fuel today starting at 10:00am. Sustainable Fuel is the single most effective way for flights to reduce their carbon footprint. It's made from 100% renewable materials, such as cooking oil and can reduce greenhouse gas emission by up to 80%. A small celebration will take place at 10:00am at the Jet Center today.

Hwy 29 in Napa near Rutherford was closed for several hours yesterday afternoon when a dump truck driven by a 23-year old from Santa Rosa overturned, killing the driver and severely injuring his 61-year old passenger. The dump truck made an unsafe turning motion and left the road, crashing into a concrete box and a culvert, ejecting the passenger. Neither the driver nor his passenger were wearing seatbelts. The crash is still under investigation and their names have not been released.

This Saturday the Sonoma Jet Center at the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport will host Green Fuel Day, celebrating sustainable aviation fuel. Sustainable Fuel is the single most effective way for flights to reduce their carbon footprint. It's made from 100% renewable materials, such as cooking oil and can reduce greenhouse gas emission by up to 80%. A small celebration will take place at 10:00am on Saturday.

A man from Rohnert Park was killed Tuesday afternoon when he did not slow down as he approached traffic that was stopped on Lakeville highway outside of Petaluma. The 22-year old man was driving a Toyota, it crashed into the back of a Nissan Versa then overturned and was then struck by a Chevy Silverado, which pushed the Nissan into a Ford Fusion. The drivers of the other vehicles were taken to Petaluma Valley Hospital.

Alaska Airlines briefly grounded all flights Wednesday due to a technical issue. The airline says it requested a ground stop for all Alaska and Horizon air flights out of an abundance of caution after experiencing an issue during upgrades to the system that calculates weight and balance on airplanes. The ground stop lasted about an hour and flights resumed at 8:30 a.m. Residual delays hit some airports on and off through the day, both airlines are back on schedule today..

Today is the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake that leveled much of downtown Santa Rosa. More than 100 people in Santa Rosa were killed when the town only had a population of about 8,700. Santa Rosa's city hall was destroyed along with the Grand Hotel and the main library. Sonoma County will hold it's Spring Shake Out earthquake drill at 10am this morning.. when you should practice the stop, drop, cover and hold on drill.

From the I don't understand this file, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has announced that the 26 protesters arrested in connection with shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, will be released from jail and currently not face any charges. She says they need more evidence before those involved can be held accountable. However, they are asking that anyone who was trapped on the bridge to please reach out to the California highway patrol with they encountered while stuck on the bridge.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors yesterday to dump DEMA Management and Consulting, the company hired to run several homeless sites who's billing has come into question lately. The county does not have an exact timeline or a new company lined up to replace DEMA, so they will continue to run the tent site at the county complex and the Mickey Zane Place hotel on a week to week basis. A Press Democrat investigation brought into question billing associated with the $26 million dollar contract DEMA secured with the county.

From the I don't understand this file, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has announced that the 26 protesters arrested in connection with shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, will be released from jail and currently not face any charges. She says they need more evidence before those involved can be held accountable. However, they are asking that anyone who was trapped on the bridge to please reach out to the California highway partrol with they expirenced while stuck on the bridge.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors requested more information be gathered and then placed in a report on the potential impacts of putting forth a ballot measure seeking to end large livestock and poultry farms in the County. The group Coalition to End Factory Farming collected enough signatures to forward the initiative to the Supervisors. Once the information is collected, it will be presented to the Board on May 14th,

Santa Rosa Fire crews contained a residential fire caused by oily rags early this morning. The Santa Rosa Fire Department received a call about 1:30 this morning that a garage was on fire and a house was filling with smoke on Hillsboro Circle. The blaze had not yet spread into the living area and was isolated to the attached garage. The occupants had also been awakened by their smoke detector and were able to escape without injury. The fire was brought under control in 15 minutes. Damage to the home is estimated to be $20,000.

An online community meeting for residents in Coffee Park and Fountaingrove will take place this Thursday, April 18th at 5:30pm to discuss the Neighborhood Road Recovery project by the city of Santa Rosa. This $21 million dollar project will repave over 33 miles of roadway in Santa Rosa impacted by the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Residents interested in an update can get information and lot in at www.NeighborhoodRoadRecovery.com.

Many Santa Rosa residents were puzzled or even annoyed by a low-flying helicopter yesterday. It hovered over Montgomery Village before moving over the Franklin Park area and then along Hidden Valley Drive. It was in the air from around 10:30 to 3:30 yesterday. The tail number identified it as being owned by a company in Sacramento... while not confirmed, it is suspected it was doing aerial mapping and inspection of powerlines for PG&E.

Pro- Palestinian demonstrators shut down major roadways and airports across the county yesterday protesting the war in Gaza. Locally, traffic on 880 in Oakland and the Golden Gate Bridge was stopped for several hours while authorities worked to remove the demonstrators who were chained to 55-gallon drums filled with concrete. Roads leading to Chicago's O'Hare Airport were blocked along with the Brooklyn Bridge, I-5 in Oregon and the road leading to Seattle-Tacoma airport. Tempers flared in the backup with people trying to make it to doctors appointments, work and even scheduled medical procedures. While the roads were eventually cleared, for those stuck, it took far to long to remove the illegal protests.

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors will consider a proposal today to reduce the tax rates levied on the Cannabis industry in the county. The proposed changes would drop the per square foot tax and the tax manufacturers pay, however the retail tax rate would increase from 2% to 3%. The changes come as the industry is seeing a decline in cultivators and a glut of product on the market due to large-scale producers.

Seven people were rescued Saturday from the cold waters of Tomales Bay when their boat capsized. Emergency responders arrived to find all seven clinging to an overturned 14 foot aluminum boat. Three were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, the other four just needed to be warmed up after spending time in the 50 degree water.

The hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins today with jury selection. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged effort to keep an affair with Stormy Daniles from emerging during his 2016 campaign.

The city of Sebastopol has walked away from supporting the Gravenstein Commons housing project proposed by St. Vincent de Paul on property they own on Gravenstein Hwy North. St. Vincent de Paul has secured $6.5 million in funding to create 22 units of permanent supportive housing, but the city contends they would be on the hook for financial responsibility and says the project is $3 to $5 million dollars under-funded.

A peaceful spot at Santa Rosa's Nagasawa Park in Fountiangrove has been selected as the location for a memorial to those lost in the 2017 Tubbs fire. A brief ceremony took place there on Friday. A task force will now start accepting proposals from local artists for their vision of what a memorial might look like. Once an artists is selected, the task force and the community will have input on a final design.

Congratulations to authors Anne Belden and Paul Gullixon for winning the Investigative Reporters and Editors national award for their book “Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism and Outrage in Wine Country’s Deadliest Firestorm”. The book recounts the evacuation of two senior facilities in Fountiangrove during the night of the 2017 Tubbs Fire that killed 22 people.