The event celebrated the winners of The Press Democrat’s Best of Sonoma County 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards contest.

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. -- For decades the pig scramble has been a popular activity at the Sonoma County Fair. On August 1st when the fair reopens the pig scramble will be gone and replaced with an ...

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. - The Sonoma County Fair is canceling horse racing for their 2025 event due to a declining horse population in Northern California, officials say. What we know: ...

Petunia, a rescue dog from California, was crowned the 2025 winner of the " World's Ugliest Dog " contest on August 8 at the ...

SANTA ROSA — The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is held at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa.

On Friday afternoon, Sonoma County Fair CEO Rebecca Bartling confirmed the show will go on with a name change: “Short Sleeve Sampson’s Wrestling Warriors." She said the show was a hit last year.

For more than 20 years the Pig Scramble has been one of Sonoma County Fair's annual Farmer's Day activities, but at this year's fair the grabbing and chasing after piglets will be over.

The Sonoma County Fair, fresh off a bruising battle with state horse racing officials that forced a change to the fair’s schedule, is making lemonade out of those sour lemons - or at least ...

SONOMA, Calif. - COVID-19 has forced cancellation of summer fairs and festivals, but much-missed fair food is re-emerging. At empty fairgrounds, vendors are roasting turkey legs, spinning cotton ...

In Sonoma County, where agriculture is an economic engine, it is becoming an economic crisis. On Sunday, the county held a farmworker resource fair to help those who make the whole thing work.