COVID: Marin lifts first responder mandate
Marin County Public Health has rescinded an order that law enforcement officers, firefighters, probation officers and emergency medical personnel be fully vaccinated and boosted to work in Marin...
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Golden Gate Bridge to build training facility for suicide net rescues
For more than a decade, Golden Gate Bridge officials have labored to build a massive net to catch people who jump from the span. Now, as the estimated $215 million project nears completion late next...
View ArticleSan Rafael police arrest rock-throwing suspect at Subway
San Rafael police arrested a Mill Valley man Sunday after he allegedly smashed a door at a Subway sandwich shop in Terra Linda. Police responded to the 4100 block of Redwood Highway around 2 p.m. after...
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Marin’s FIRE Foundry program seeded $2.7 million from state
Members of the Marin County Fire Department and the FIRE Foundry program head up a hill while on assignment to clear fuels in the Fairfax area on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (Sherry LaVars/Marin...
View ArticleTheft spree: Two suspects arrested at Novato’s Vintage Oaks
Novato police have arrested a woman they believe helped herself to thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise – without paying – at the Vintage Oaks Shopping Center on Friday, as well as the woman who...
View ArticleYoung mountain lion shot by police dies in surgery at Oakland Zoo
OAKLAND — A young mountain lion that was rushed to the Oakland Zoo after being shot by police when being corralled in a Northern California residential neighborhood died during emergency surgery,...
View ArticlePedestrian killed on Highway 101 in Sausalito identified
A pedestrian who died after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 101 in Sausalito was identified as 41-year-old Carlos Rios of Vallejo, authorities announced Wednesday. Rios was struck at 4:25 a.m....
View ArticleAfter woman killed by toxic ‘juice,’ San Mateo care home suspends employees
SAN MATEO — The 93-year-old woman who died after she was served dishwasher detergent as a drink at the Atria Senior Living facility has been identified as Trudy F. Maxwell, the San Mateo County...
View ArticleNovato police recover stolen van, arrest mask-wearing suspect with machete
Novato police arrested a man Monday evening they believe made off with a stolen van. A Ford E350 was reported stolen from Lambert Way shortly before noon Sunday, said police Lt. Sophia Winter. The...
View ArticleSan Rafael meth seizure suspect re-arrested
Sheriff’s detectives have re-arrested a suspect they said they caught with a pound of suspected methamphetamine earlier this month. This time the suspect, John William Gobbin, 55, allegedly had another...
View ArticleMill Valley residence damaged in fire
A fire damaged a residence in the Sycamore Park neighborhood of Mill Valley, a fire official said Thursday. A Mill Valley fire crew was finishing a medical call late Wednesday night when the crew...
View ArticleSan Rafael man accused of driving stolen truck
San Rafael police arrested a man on allegations of driving a stolen pickup truck. Officers went to the 3000 block of Kerner Boulevard at about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday to investigate a report that someone...
View ArticleMap: Mill Fire and Mountain Fire evacuations near Weed
Click “accept” or “decline” to see the full evacuation map, including an address search field. Updated Sept. 4. Click here for a more recent article with these maps. A fire that started Friday...
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Weed: Mill Fire destroys homes, injures residents, sends people fleeing
WEED — Fueled by gusty winds and sweltering temperatures, the fast-moving Mill Fire provided an ominous beginning to a brutally hot Labor Day weekend in Northern California, as it tore through Siskiyou...
View ArticleNovato police accuse driver of ramming patrol vehicle
A San Francisco man was arrested in Novato after he allegedly rammed a police vehicle with a stolen car. The incident happened at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday after police received a report of a stolen car...
View ArticleRolling blackout threat averted: Power was shut off only to some customers in...
A historic heat wave drove California’s electricity demand to a new record Tuesday and pushed its power grid closer to overloading than it’s been in two years, but conservation efforts narrowly averted...
View ArticleTheranos founder Elizabeth Holmes demands new trial after key prosecution...
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of fraud in January, on Tuesday demanded a new trial, saying a key prosecution witness showed up at her home disheveled and apparently remorseful over his...
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Bloody arrest in San Rafael prompts protests, investigation
Demonstrators march past police headquarters on their way to City Hall in San Rafael, Calif. on Sunday, Sept.4, 2022, to protest an arrest that injured a man in the Canal area. (Alan Dep/Marin...
View ArticleRedwood Landfill fire sends smoke across Novato
A large pile of construction and demolition debris caught fire at the Redwood Landfill on Tuesday evening, prompting an hourslong response from firefighters from around Marin County and sending smoke...
View ArticleMarin investigators arrest suspected meth dealer, seize fentanyl
Sheriff’s detectives arrested a 29-year-old Oakland man they believe has been selling methamphetamine in Marin, seizing a massive assortment of suspected drugs in the process, the Marin County...
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