Sonoma Clean Power CEO gets a charge out of changing consumer energy habits

Santa Rosa-based Exchange Bank (OTC: EXSR) has announced plans to open a trust and investment office in Marin County this summer. Its latest such office will be located at 3950 Civic Center Drive, near the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael. “We are excited to replicate our style of...

The Ukiah Planning Commission this week is scheduled to consider changes to city codes that would allow customers purchasing cannabis within the city limits to consume their purchases on-site. The potential changes were pushed in large part by one local business owner, Kyle Greenhalgh, who told city officials last year...

A lingering shadow effect of the pandemic on spending is showing up in a state fourth-quarter tax report. Household goods repair and maintenance topped the statewide list of business categories providing goods and services with the most sales and use tax growth in the fourth quarter of last year, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration reported Jan. 26.

Garrett Anken enjoys his career and finds it rewarding. But he’s made choices that many of his Gen Z peers didn’t. Anken, 24, works as an apprentice plumber at Sonoma-based Peterson Mechanical, a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractor that serves Napa, Marin, Solano and four other Bay Area counties.

Bed Bath & Beyond, the struggling home goods retailer with three North Bay locations, announced plans for a public offering Monday, a move that it hopes will allow it to pay off its debts and possibly stave off bankruptcy. Early last month, Bed Bath & Beyond warned investors that bankruptcy...

A multimillion-dollar funding gap could jeopardize a long-awaited housing and commercial project on Sebastopol Road in Roseland. The Sonoma County Community Development Commission faces an $18.6 million deficit to cover costs of infrastructure work on a 7.4-acre development known as Tierra de Rosas. That work must be completed before vertical construction can start.

Eight workers who keep grapevines in shape came out on top in a field of 106 people at the 21st annual Napa County Pruning Contest. “As a past winner, now judging, I’m proud and happy to be helping and hope to encourage competitors to win,” said Celia Perez of V. Sattui Winery and the first women’s division champion in 2014, “People think that the Pruning Contest is only for men, but I am here to prove it’s for everyone, and that anyone can win.”