The Record
Agendas, minutes, election dates and public safety logs, drawn from Tribune reporting. This page is updated as new items are reported.
Three found dead in Strawberry home; sources identify two as retired SFPD officers
Someone inside the house on Strawberry Circle called 911 shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday to report shots fired. The sheriff's office has not publicly identified the victims and said there is no threat to the community.
Marin supervisors to weigh limits on federal immigration enforcement
At its Oct. 20 meeting the Board of Supervisors will consider barring federal immigration agencies from using county property for enforcement operations and tightening rules on information sharing.
Belvedere votes Monday on Marin's first drone delivery ordinance
The City Council gave the rules a 3-2 first reading on Sept. 14, with the only split over delivery hours. No drone company has named Belvedere, and no delivery drone has reached a doorstep there yet.
Engineered-diamond chip company picks Petaluma for its first pilot manufacturing site
Diamond Quanta will build out Diamond Forge 1, a pilot manufacturing environment for semiconductor-grade diamond integration, at a new Petaluma operations center. First Petaluma-made parts are planned for a CES 2027 debut.
Richardson Bay's October 15 deadline arrives with 25 boats left on the anchorage
A decade after 240 vessels crowded the bay off Sausalito, the regional anchorage agreement's removal deadline for illegally anchored boats is two weeks away.
The Editorial Board: November's tax measures deserve a yes, and a watchful eye
Santa Rosa, San Rafael, American Canyon and Napa County are all asking voters for money. The needs are real. The oversight has to be real too.
The November ballot is a housing-finance election, even where housing is not on the ballot
Santa Rosa's sales tax, San Rafael's transfer tax, American Canyon's Measure P and Napa's wildfire initiative all decide whether the North Bay can pay for the homes and the protection they need.
San Rafael asks voters to quintuple the real-estate transfer tax
The November 3 measure would raise the rate from 0.2% to 1.0%, generating an estimated $6 million a year for city services. It needs a simple majority.
Highway 37 gets its $500 million interim fix. The long game against the bay is still unfunded
Construction is underway on the Sears Point to Mare Island widening, with HOV lanes and habitat restoration. An elevated highway above the rising bay remains a plan without money.
SMART's Measure B win locks in $51 million a year through 2059
Voters extended the quarter-cent sales tax with more than 70 percent in June. The train now has a 30-year funding runway, and a 30-year argument about what to do with it.
Santa Rosa asks voters to double the sales tax to a full cent
Measure L would replace the half-cent Measure Q with a 1% rate, raising an estimated $46 million a year after three years of cuts and 82 eliminated positions.
The Bay Area's $1.4 trillion plan for 2050 is final. Here is what it means north of the bay
MTC and ABAG adopted Plan Bay Area 2050+ in March: 35 strategies, 900,000 new households, 1.3 million new jobs, and a 25-year bet on transit, housing and climate resilience.
Four counties, four answers to the same question: who pays for wildfire protection
Napa's proposed half-cent wildfire tax would raise $23 million a year for 18 years. Marin taxes parcels for home hardening. Sonoma consolidates fire districts. Solano watches and waits.
The Bay Area's big transit tax is on the November ballot. The North Bay is not in it
Senate Bill 63 authorizes a five-county Connect Bay Area measure for November 3. Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano are outside the district, riders of the regional system anyway.
The North Bay's two economies: 4.3% unemployment in Napa, 5.5% in Solano
August labor data shows the region's familiar split. Marin, Napa and Sonoma cluster near 4.4%. Solano stands a full point higher, and the gap is structural.
American Canyon's Measure P: the smallest city asks the smallest question on the November ballot
A one-percent general sales tax would raise an estimated $3.7 million a year for Napa County's southernmost city. It is the modest end of the North Bay's municipal revenue wave.
Point Reyes after the ranches: restoration begins on the land the cattle left
With the deal to end commercial ranching in the national seashore behind it, 2026 has become the year of transition: restoration planning, grazing's end, and open questions about workers and access.
Rancho Adobe's move into Sonoma County Fire District redraws the fire map
Both boards have voted to consolidate and the reorganization is moving through LAFCO. Parcel-tax rates would carry over, assets and liabilities transfer, and the county's consolidation wave rolls on.
Solano County's big-bet year ends with the shipyard in Texas and the new city in limbo
Saronic chose Texas for its $3.2 billion shipyard. Supervisors killed the fast-track bill 3-2. The East Solano Plan waits on environmental review. 2026 was the year Solano reached for the future and missed.
The dams are coming out. Sonoma County is making sure the water keeps flowing
PG&E's surrender of the Potter Valley Project entered federal environmental review in May. Behind it sits a 2025 water agreement meant to protect Russian River supplies when the Eel River dams go.