Lambs at Thursdays Sonoma County Fairs lamb auction went for an average of $10.56 a pound, pleasing both the young participants and the events organizer Sheila Quince. We already beat how we initially did last year, she said.

Fire officials say unseasonably cool, damp weather helped prevent a catastrophe Wednesday outside Cloverdale, where two brothers, aged 7 and 10, playing with a lighter started a 2-acre fire.

Americans in the second quarter tapped the smallest amount of home equity in a decade, showing households are focused on repairing tattered finances.

Firefighters from three agencies quickly doused a fire behind a popular sushi bar and two-story commercial building in downtown Ukiah on Thursday morning.

The Healdsburg Jazz Festival will take a year off in 2011 and may undergo some changes in size and format before it returns.

Brandon Hyde has traveled all over the United States as a professional baseball player, coach and manager. He began his journey 36 years ago in Santa Rosa.

A San Francisco woman has been arrested and charged with bilking would-be apartment renters of thousands of dollars apiece by accepting their deposits and then spinning a tale that they couldnt move in for a while because her mother had cancer, police said...

Two Bay Area women were arrested and charged with embezzlement Wednesday after allegedly writing $2.6 million in bonus checks to themselves over a four-year period at a San Francisco software company, prosecutors said. The investigation started shortly after...

Mortgage rates are the most affordable in decades for those who can qualify for a loan. For many, the opportunity to buy a home or refinance at this time is lost because of the tough economy and tight credit standards. But those who have secure jobs, superior...

Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemeterys former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced...

President Barack Obama said Thursday that the racial firestorm that led to the ouster of a black Agriculture Department official was a phony controversy generated by the media. He said his administration overreacted by forcing her out. In an interview on...

Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist. Sherrod was forced to resign last week as director of rural development in Georgia after...