Sonoma County (California)

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked Mexico's Baja California peninsula Sunday, jolting millions of people from Los Angeles and San Diego to Phoenix and scattering destruction along the U.S.-Mexico border. Emergency services in both the U.S. and Mexico...

A limited edition wine will be released Sunday in honor of Burbank native Randy Rhoads, who was the lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot before he was killed in a plane crash while on tour with Osbourne in 1982. The Rhoads special edition 2005...

State prison officials say a former Sonoma County chiropractor serving time on a rape charge has been killed in prison. Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation say David Noles was found dead in his cell at Mule Creek...

Robert Young, a pioneering Sonoma County farmer who changed his crop from prunes to grapes and helped produce some of the first vineyard-designated wines in California, has died. He was 90. Young died June 19 at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital from...

A man that was shot and killed in a shootout with police in New Mexico most likely isn't tied to a double murder in California back in 2004, that's according to the DNA evidence... 62 year old Joseph Henry Burgess exchanged gunfire with sheriff...

A man who died last week in a shootout with a sheriff's deputy in New Mexico was being investigated in the 2004 killings of a couple on a Northern California beach. Sonoma County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Tim Duke says 62-year-old Joseph Henry Burgess was...

As the sun rose over a wind-swept stretch of desert just east of Palm Springs, Cameron Barrows tramped over a series of dunes, identifying animal tracks in the sand -- kangaroo rat, shovel-nosed snake, cottontail, pocket mouse, sidewinder rattlesnake....

It's been nearly five years since a young couple was found shot while they camped on a California beach: Jason Allen, 26, a camp counselor from Ottawa County, and his fiance, Lindsay Cutshall, 23. Police say a 'person of interest' in their murders has...

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IF YOU GO GETTING THERE Oakland International Airport is your best bet if California's wine country is your primary goal. The easiest option for Chicagoans is to fly Southwest Airlines non-stop from Midway to Oakland. A recent check found weekday fares...

The teacher instructed us to measure 15 milliliters of wine by sucking on our glass pipettes and transferring the liquid to our waiting beakers. For the next half-hour, we tinkered on our own, adding a generous pour from B, a few drops of C until the...

All are by appointment only. Reservations required. The Blending Cellar, Mayo Family Winery Barrel Room, 13101 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen; (707) 849-4041, www.blendingcellar.com. Tasting and blending workshops offered daily. Wines are blended to order...