Santa Rosa

A Sonoma couple is heartbroken after losing their puppy to poisoning by blue-green algae. KTVU's Debora Villalon reports the couple wants other dog owners to know about this threat. Since the dog's death new warning signs have been posted in Santa Rosa.

A planning meeting was held in Santa Rosa Monday for on how the city plans to deal with homeless encampments. KTVU's Debora Villalon reports police are expected to sweep the encampments in the next few weeks.

There's only a handful of officers on the Santa Rosa Police Department who identify as LGBTQ+, but those who are are glad they are on a department that is showing them support. This Pride month, the Rainbow flag will be raised for the first time at the department's headquarters. KTVU's Debora Villalon reports.

Santa Rosa police continued their search Thursday for a man wanted for stealing a backpack containing a doctoral student?s Ph.D thesis. KTVU's Debora Villalon reports.

According to the CDC, abortions are at an all time low and the majority of people polled want Roe vs. Wade to stay in place. Despite this, lawmakers in Southern states are enacting strict abortion bans, leading to protests and rallies like one on Tuesday in Santa Rosa. KTVU's Debora Villalon reports.

The arts community in the North Bay is rallying against this week's act of vandalism to a public mural. KTVU's Debora Villalon reports from Santa Rosa on the plan to restore the artwork.

Event planners in the North Bay don't usually have to worry about rain storms in the month of May, but the kick-off of Wednesday Night Market, a produce and food event, was cancelled in Santa Rosa. KTVU's Debora Villalon reports.

Firefighters in Santa Rosa say this mid-week rain isn't coming at a particularly good time. They say the rain could speed up the growth of vegetation in fields already overgrown. KTVU's Rob Roth reports.

A man and woman identified as a married but recently separated couple died Monday morning in the parking lot in front of a Santa Rosa gym in an apparent murder-suicide, Santa Rosa police said Monday. KTVU's Debora Villalon reports.

'Tis the season to beware of counterfeit money, as the case was for a Walmart in the North Bay, which was taken for a thousand dollars in gift cards. KTVU's Debora Villalon tells us what to look out for.

As busy as Mike Wolff, owner of Wolff Contracting, is with rebuilding Wine Country, he's putting a lot of time, energy and personal money into 14, 250 square foot tiny homes, for veterans to use at little or no cost, for however long they need it. He's a veteran himself and says when he returned from Iraq, he noticed his own PTSD and knows firsthand how difficult this transition can be.

A Santa Rosa couple hopes their dog, Lucy, who was stolen, turns up after a tip came in that the French bulldog was spotted. Debora Villalon reports

What's happened in Butte County is deja vu for Sonoma County. Last year, thousands of people there ran from flames and found no homes to return to. Now fire survivors in Santa Rosa are rallying to help their neighbors to the north.

It's more high-fire danger for the North and East Bay Hills. A Red Flag Warning goes into effect 1 a.m. Saturday, for fire crews it means extra hours on the job.

There are some new exhibits in the North Bay timed for the first anniversary of last October's firestorm. The artists hope their works are as healing for the public as they were for them to create.

As the North Bay marks one year since devastating firestorms, people in one pocket of the fire zone feel forgotten.