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Before Los Angeles disaster, wildfires pushed others out of California • Jan. 23, 2025, 1:45 PM ET (BBC)
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Coroner identifies 4 family members found fatally shot in Santa Rosa home • Jan. 14, 2025, 9:46 PM ET (CBS)
Woman rescued after fire breaks out at Santa Rosa supportive housing complex • Jan. 13, 2025, 9:48 PM ET (CBS)
Sheriff K9 sniffs out several pounds of meth in Santa Rosa bust; convicted drug dealer arrested • Jan. 9, 2025, 9:47 PM ET (CBS)

Santa Rosa, city, seat (1854) of Sonoma county, western California, U.S. It is situated on Santa Rosa Creek, at the foot of the Sonoma Mountains, 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of San Francisco. Founded in 1833 by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and named for St. Rose of Lima, it developed as a processing-shipping centre for agricultural produce of the Sonoma Valley. Agriculture no longer dominates the economy, which now mainly depends on retail-service industries catering to an increasing residential population. The city has been the site of several utopian-living experiments, including Fountain Grove (1885), founded by Thomas Lake Harris. The home ...(100 of 206 words)

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