Felecia Gaston founded Performing Stars 35 years ago to give low-income girls free ballet lessons. The Marin nonprofit has now served 6,000 kids.

In 2015, the National Park Service asked the state to sign off on the demolition of all of the buildings at Laird’s Landing as unsafe. To Theresa Harlan and her husband, Tiger, the buildings represent ...

Pacific Sun readers shared their local favorites for family life and furry friends in the Best of Marin 2025 – Family & Pets. Discover top picks for schools, summer camps, wedding venues, dog parks, ...

You gave the Panama Hotel the prize in the Best Boutique Hotel category, so you must be in on the secret. From an aptly named Bordello Room to the unassuming location, the Panama feels like the ...

A Story in Two Parts. Read the second part here. On the muddy banks of the Petaluma River in downtown Petaluma, a new housing complex is rising. Crews employed by the A.G. Spanos Corporation, a ...

Updated from Jan. 8, 2025. Part one of a two-part article. A San Rafael police officer, Brandon Nail, fired in 2023 for violating department policies, won an arbitration proceeding that reversed his ...

The residents of the Sausalito homeless encampment emphatically disagree about the staff’s qualifications. Fearing retaliation, the campers have remained silent for months about serious allegations ...

Californians in two industries are set to get new minimum wages just for them this year, and that could lead to pay bumps for other workers, too. Gov. Gavin Newsom last year signed two union-backed ...

Seniors are being bombarded with ads encouraging them to switch from traditional Medicare to a “Medicare Advantage plan.” The ads point out that premiums for Medicare Advantage plans are less than ...

But before hopping into the car for a spontaneous garden and art adventure, one may take a moment to learn some of the story behind the show. Cedars in the Garden celebrates not only the garden center ...

Of late, Trump is ratcheting up his Hitlerian rants, now calling some immigrants and refugees the subhumans who are “poisoning the blood of the country.” Ten years from now, when historians look ...

Unbeknownst to much of the public, Big Tech exacts heavy tolls on public health, the environment and democracy. The detrimental combination of an unregulated tech sector, pronounced rise in ...