The wildfire broke out near Sears Point, charring 50 acres, according to Cal Fire.
Detective Marylou Armer, a Napa County resident, died March 31, 2020, of COVID-19 complications. Her life was celebrated Thursday.
"Luckily, the occupant of the parked vehicle was uninjured."
A man was arrested on suspicion of stealing items from a business after the establishment's alarm system alerted police.
Authorities are monitoring the lion's movements. Anyone who sees the lion should NOT approach it but should call 911, police said.
The 48-year-old is accused of embezzling a total of nearly $820,000 from two North Bay employers, federal authorities said.
Police made contact with the 25-year-old at a homeless encampment along the Petaluma River.
Police suspect the man was under the influence of a controlled substance when he climbed into the art display at the Petaluma SMART station.
The CHP is seeking a 2002-2010 blue or green Nissan Altima sedan with damage to the grille, headlights and front bumper cover.
Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit and the Napa County Fire Department will be conducting a prescribed burn Tuesday.
A Richmond man and a San Rafael woman were arrested for possession of stolen items and a suspected attempt to steal a catalytic converter.
A prescribed burn was scheduled Thursday atop Sonoma Mountain and was expected to produce drift smoke, the Petaluma Fire Department advised.
Robert Raines, 66, who holds the Shoreline Unified School District’s administrative top post, was arrested Tuesday, authorities said.
Police said the pair arrested were each in possession of enough fentanyl to create thousands of potential doses.
The woman was found with a large amount of cash and over an ounce of the powerful opioid, police said.
Brent Hansen, 31, led officers on a foot chase from 5th and B streets to Theater Square early Thursday, police said.
Petaluma PD has two newly promoted lieutenants and two new sergeants, among other promotions and transfers.
Last year during Memorial Day weekend, 78 percent of Californians who were killed in a crash were not wearing a seatbelt, according to CHP.
Five people are suspected of vandalizing a downtown sculpture and a house where a Derek Chauvin defense witness once lived, police said.
Officers took the Petaluma man into custody on the shoulder of northbound U.S. Highway 101, police said.
The man left his car at the scene of a crash but officers found and arrested him, police said.
The Petaluma man pulled out a knife and flipped it open and said, "Go ahead, shoot me," police said.
The fire broke out about a mile north of state Highway 37.
A CA man is facing assault and weapons offenses in connection with strangling a family member and threatening her with a sword.
A man was arrested on suspicion of possession of a stolen vehicle and violation of probation, according to the Petaluma Police Department.
The charges resulted from a September 2020 investigation by the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety.
Police say the suspect drove a dark blue, newer model Chevrolet Cruze.
Police are seeking to identify a man who reportedly exposed himself to two young girls.
A woman suffered minor burns to her feet when the man became angry and threw a Molotov cocktail at her shelter, police said.
A woman was hospitalized as was the driver, and the tree had to be cut down, police said.
The toddler spent more than three weeks in the intensive care unit following the hit-and-run collision near Coddingtown Mall.
Cal Fire cited the continuing drought and earlier fire seasons as factors for its temporary ban of residential burn permits.
The suspect, Porschia Napalan, 43, of San Francisco, was on the bus and had a bank bag containing the money, police said.
The two men from Redding were asleep in a stolen car, police said.
A Sonoma County mom whose Instagram posts about an attempted kidnapping in Petaluma went viral has been charged with two misdemeanors.
A Santa Rosa man was arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft after he was seen driving erratically in a stolen car, police said.
Police said one person suffered minor injuries in the incident at East Washington and Lakeville streets.
A woman and two children were barricaded inside a bedroom of the home in the standoff that lasted nearly three hours, police said.
Petaluma police arrested a man in connection with kicking a police officer and hitting vehicles with a shovel.
Jeffrey Berg was charged after police said he took to at least 10 vehicles with a shovel and kicked an officer before he was arrested.