Santa Rosa residents could see long-awaited investments in road maintenance, park upgrades and water and sewer improvements in the coming years.

“Council member Combs, are you still with us? I think I heard her drop off the line,” another member of the Santa Rosa City Council could be heard saying during a November meeting. Julie ...

The first 43 miles of a new 70-mile commuter rail line, the SMART train, opened this summer, connecting Santa Rosa to San Rafael, and, eventually, the ferry to San Francisco. The City Council has ...

Brandy would take the “front-line approach,” taking the ... and families had moved back in. Osburn, Santa Rosa’s planning director, said the city played a key role in making that possible.