Sonoma County drivers very likely may be paying record high prices for gas. AAA on Friday reported that its price survey on Thursday showed the average price for regular in the Santa Rosa area was $4.513 a gallon -- just 4 cents shy of the record of $4.55 set on [...]
After more than three decades of keeping his eye on Bay Area traffic congestion and guiding commuters through it, KGO radio's Stan Burford is calling it quits. "I'm 69 and I turn 70 in December," the dean of Bay Area traffic reporters explained when asked why he's retiring. [...]
It's the iconic cop car: The Ford Crown Victoria. But after about two decades, Ford has stopped making the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor model, leaving police departments across the nation to switch to new Ford, Chevrolet or Dodge police cars. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office has chosen the [...]
It’s time for the Road Warrior’s third-annual contest for readers to vote for the worst road in Sonoma County. Vote by leaving a comment below telling us what that worst road is, or a particular stretch of that road, and explain why it’s so bad. It’s fine to [...]
With the opening of Highway 101's extra lanes in Rohnert Park, some readers have written in wondering when metering lights will be turned on at onramps. The answer is "it's a few years away," said Doanh Nguyen, Caltrans' principal transportation engineer/division chief of project management for the North Bay. The [...]
Sonoma County police agencies on Friday launch an 18-day campaign to crack down on drunken drivers. The county's Avoid the 13 task force, which includes all police agencies in the county, will hold DUI/license checkpoints, conduct DUI warrant sweeps and DUI probation checks and send out officers on patrols looking [...]
Here's a question from a Road Warrior reader: With all of the focus and conversation on the bicycle vs. cars issues, are there any statistics on the number of citations issued to bicyclists in the county? I know some jurisdictions have random "maximum enforcement" events regarding bicycle riding infractions. I'm [...]
Sonoma County’s test of dirt roads is heading into what may be its final stage. Next week, the county roads department plans to “armor coat” three sections of Sonoma Mountain Road that two summers ago it ground up, pulverized, injected a hardening enzyme into and compacted, leaving a [...]
Sonoma County is proposing to build a roundabout on Arnold Drive at Agua Caliente Road, the entrance to the Hanna Boys Center, in the Sonoma Valley. The roundabout, projected to cost $2 million if approved, would be built next spring and would be the first one on a [...]
It's no secret among motorcyclists that Stewarts Point-Skaggs Springs Road near Lake Sonoma is the place for speed and thrills. It has been for years, so it should come as no surprise to motorcyclists as well that the CHP is aware of the racetrack-type draw of the rural road and [...]