Critical funding for runway upgrades at the growing county airport as well as federal support for other costly projects and ...

Cal Fire announced it will suspend residential burn permits in the North Bay for the remainder of the dry season starting ...

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of three Sonoma County residents, contends the county’s drone use violates the California ...

Cal Fire will suspend burning permits in Napa and four other counties starting next week, citing the drying-out of vegetation ...

Sonoma County has been accused of deploying hundreds of drone flights over residents in a “runaway spying operation” that has ...

Three residents filed a lawsuit this week against Sonoma County seeking to block code enforcement from using drones to take ...

Since 2019, code enforcement officers from the county agency Permit Sonoma have used drones more than 700 times producing at least 5,600 images, according to the legal filing. The plaintiffs ...

Tennis Wick, the director of Permit Sonoma, the county’s land use and planning department, which is a defendant in the lawsuit, said in an email to SFGATE that the county has not reviewed or ...

Sonoma County's Code Enforcement Division was today named in an ACLU lawsuit alleging the department has been using ...

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — Permit Sonoma resumed issuing non-emergency well permits this week after a Sonoma County Superior Court judge temporarily lifted a previous court order that halted the ...

Sonoma County's Code Enforcement Division was today ... by Code Enforcement to confirm/deny the allegations of construction without permit for the sheds," the lawsuit states Hareland wrote in ...

In 2024, nearly half of Sonoma County’s drone flights involved non-cannabis violations, including construction without a permit, junkyard conditions and zoning violations, according to data ...