Hitting the road next week for Thanksgiving? So is the CHP. The CHP from 6 p.m. Wednesday through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, will have all available officers out on patrol as part of a maximum enforcement period. CHP Officer Jon Sloat of the Sonoma County CHP office said 80 [...]
Caltrans' hopes of holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony officially declaring completed the Santa Rosa-to-Windsor widening of Highway 101 has slipped to early November. Spokesman Bob Haus said trouble in scheduling subcontractors to finish their work delayed the official completion. In September, he said Caltrans was shooting for an early October ceremony. [...]
It seems that there's going to be possible traffic delays in all directions this weekend, so be warned. If you're heading south this evening into San Francisco, you'll be joined by tens of thousands of Giants fans heading to AT&T Park for hopeful the Giants second victory against the Braves. [...]
" A Kenwood man was arrested last weekend on suspicion of DUI -- while driving a riding lawn mower. CHP Officer Cyril Ruffin was on patrol at 7:50 p.m. Saturday in Kenwood when he saw John Poshepny, 55, driving the mower through the parking lot of Kenwood Market and [...]
It's pumpkin patch season on Highway 101 in Petaluma, and it's time to be extra careful driving there. Ever since a pumpkin patch began opening every fall along 101 between Pepper Road and Petaluma Boulevard North, traffic slows to a crawl as drivers and passengers gawk at the [...]
It's hot, the traffic on 101 is maddening and suddenly some jerk cuts in front of you and you've got to slam on the brakes. Or perhaps it's you changing lanes and you accidentally cut off another driver. Either way could trigger road rage -- by you or the other [...]
Tens of thousands of race fans will be going to Infineon this weekend, so unless you're a race fan, avoid Highways 37 and 121 and Lakeville Highway. CHP Officer Jon Sloat said while traffic won't be as bad as some other races, such as Nascar, drivers still can expect congestion [...]
CHP officers out of the Santa Rosa office wrote 29 tickets for cell phone violations during Wednesday's crackdown on drivers, while CHP and other police agencies across the Bay Area issued a whopping more than 1,600 citations. On Aug. 10 -- the first day of the two-day crackdown --local officers [...]
School starts this week for many Sonoma County students, and police will be paying extra attention for traffic violators around schools and school buses. CHP Officer Jon Sloat reminds drivers of these laws: --If a school bus is flashing its red lights and/or has a stop sign out on two-lane [...]
Sacramento Kings basketball star Tyreke Evans was stopped by the CHP this summer in Sacramento for going 130 mph on Interstate 80. That raises the question of how many drivers rocket down Sonoma County roads at 100 mph or even faster. There's no way to know out for sure, but [...]