There have been at least a dozen incidents of violence on local campuses this year.

Golden State Warriors guard Gary Payton II has a partial tear of a ligament in his left thumb.

Vicki DeArmon launched Foghorn Press and Sibylline Press, and has now written an “almost true” memoir of San Francisco’s flourishing indie press scene in the 1990s.

For the millions of Americans who retire each year, stopping work might seem like a well-deserved break.

Kate Birdsall Johnson, a billionaire and “eccentric cat fancier” in the 1800s, lived in an ornate Sonoma castle and financed a hospital for poor women and children.

The University of Maryland commencement speech will be a homecoming of sorts for Kermit, whose creator, Jim Henson, graduated from the university in 1960.

The boy, whose name wasn’t released because of his age, was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery and battery on a school official before being released to his mother, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.

Santa Rosa inspectors during a visit to Fountaingrove Golf Club in February found construction at the member-owned course violated city grading and stormwater ordinances.