SF News California Forever Loses Shipbuilding Contract to Texas, But They Say They're Still 'On Track' California Forever, the oddly named outfit seeking to build a new city from the ground up in eastern Solano County, has lost out on a chance to bring a $3.2 billion shipbuilding facility to the county's waterfront.
SF News California Forever Team Adds Two Former Newsom Aides In Clear Political Ploy The team behind Solano County's theoretically marvelous but pragmatically very complicated new city from scratch, known as California Forever, has enlisted some help from two people who can probably whisper in the ear of the governor to help accomplish their agenda.
SF News Invasive Insect Found on Costco Plants In Solano County Could Pose Threat to Napa Grapevines Grapevines and citrus plants purchased at Costco stores in Vacaville and Fairfield, as well as in Napa and Sonoma counties, have been found to be harboring infestations of glassy-winged sharpshooters, which pose a grave threat to grapevines.
SF News Video: Authorities Intercept Elderly Wrong-Way Driver on I-80 In Fairfield A potential catastrophic collision was narrowly avoided in Fairfield Monday when authorities pulled over a disoriented elderly driver on I-80 who was filmed driving the wrong way, passing oncoming traffic within feet, and the CHP is spreading the word about its senior driver education class.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Filipino Tea Party, Candelabra Redwoods, Fog and Folklore, and Mezcal Lineage In this week’s Field Notes: Financial literacy for youth; Filipino tea and an all-Filipino band; Latino history; mezcal traditions; ceramic and wood; sculptural trees; Bay Area haunts; a mountain lion’s journey; and Santa Cruz’s new upscale hotel and spa.
SF News 'California Forever' Folks Return, Now Want to Add Manufacturing Park and 400,000 New Residents to Suisun City If you thought the California Forever plan, concocted by a group of billionaires with the help of a single, visionary CEO, to create a new city in Solano County was dead, you were naive.
SF News Threads Connected In Story of Zizian Shot In Vermont Who Was German Math Whiz The New York Times has attempted to explain one of the still unexplained pieces of the bizarre web of Zizian "murder cult" deaths, just as a Solano County trial for two of the cult's suspects gets delayed until next year.
SF News Two Zizian Defendants Back In Solano County Court, One Seeking New Attorney There has been some movement in the cases of the multiple people tied to a small but violent, cult-like group that originated in the Bay Area several years ago. And two suspects were back in court this week in Solano County.
SF News Suspect at Large After Bar Fight Turns Deadly In Dixon A 21-year-old man is dead after a bar fight became a homicide early Saturday in the Solano County city of Dixon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crews Contain 167-Acre Brush Fire in Solano County at 30% New plans for a 258-unit apartment building were announced for the long vacant 360 Fifth Street site in SoMa; a San Mateo County official pleaded not guilty to embezzling $800,000 over eight years; and a brush fire in Solano County has been contained at 30 percent.
SF News Vacaville Man Sentenced to 73 Years For Murder and Arson That Contributed to LNU Complex Fires In 2020 A Vacaville man who pleaded no contest to the murder of a 32-year-old woman he'd met online, and whose body he then burned near already raging wildfires in the summer of 2020, in an attempt to hide the crime, causing a separate wildfire, has just been sentenced.
SF News Oakland Attorney Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Contraband Porn Into Solano County Jail A well-known Oakland attorney has been arrested on charges that he tried to sneak contraband to a prisoner in Solano County Jail, and further reporting on the matter says that the contraband he tried to sneak was a stack of pornographic magazines.
SF News California Forever Group Moves to Join Forces With Suisun City, Buy Downtown Properties We heard back in January that the billionaire-backed group hoping to build a new utopian city in Solano County was pivoting and hoping to get their land annexed by the existing town of Suisun City. Will this plan work out better than their first one?
SF News Convicted Killer Gets Life Sentence for 1982 Murder of Vacaville 14-Year-Old The story of a murder that happened 42 years ago just had its closing chapter written, as the killer of Vacaville teen De Anna Lynn Johnson got a life sentence, even though he’s already serving a life sentence for the murder of another woman.
SF Politics Trump Administration Now Looking Into Building Immigrant Detention Camp In Solano County As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
SF News Sole Surviving Witness In First Zizian Murder Case Is Infirm, Has Memory Lapses In Day of Testimony The elderly man who is the sole surviving witness to the November 2022 stabbing of Vallejo resident Curtis Lind — though he only witnessed the aftermath of the stabbing — gave a day of testimony Tuesday in Solano County.
SF News Accused Murder Suspect and Zizian Cult Member Accuses Jailers of 'Detransitioning' Her In Court Outburst One of the suspected cult members who is set to stand trial for the attempted murder of Curtis Lind and the murder of fellow Zizian Emma Borhanian in 2022, Alexander "Somni" Leatham, had another outburst in a court appearance Tuesday.
SF News Former Napa and Benicia Elementary School Teacher Faces Trial on Child Molestation Charges A former Napa elementary school teacher who’d beaten the rap on some 2007 child sexual abuse charges is now somehow facing more felony counts for lewd acts with children under 14 in Benicia, and a judge has ruled he’ll stand trial.
SF News Suspect and Possible Cult Member Makes Court Appearance In Vallejo Killing as Further Links Revealed to Other Murders We've only just begun to see the unraveling of the strange case of the Zizians, as we'll call them for now, a purported "death cult" with links to the rationalist movement, whose alleged activities the last two years have led to a total of six deaths to date.
SF News California Forever Sees New Way to Get Around Voter Approval For Their Solano County City-From-Scratch Sensing that public opinion was not going their way last year, and facing legal fights on several fronts, a billionaire-backed effort to build a new utopian city from farmland in eastern Solano County may head down a new path.
SF News Invasive, 20-Pound ‘Swamp Rat’ Rodents Spreading Across Bay Area, Definitely Pose a Threat Rodents of unusual size are no longer just something from the movies. These swamp rats known as nutria are a scourge spreading across Contra Costa and Solano counties, and they’re a risk to our crops, livestock, and water supply.
SF News Billionaire-Backed Group, California Forever, Is Withdrawing Their Ballot Measure After Damning Solano County Report Heh. Four months ahead of the November election, and following a damning report by Solano County staff, California Forever is pulling their ballot initiative to rezone an eastern swath of the county so they can build their utopian "city of yesterday."
SF Politics In Latest PR Effort, California Forever Opens Healthcare Clinic In Rio Vista As they attempt to win over hearts and minds to their plan to build a new city in eastern Solano County, the group California Forever has just pledged to bolster healthcare access in the county.
SF Politics Solano Land Trust Tells Voters to Vote 'No' on California Forever Ballot Measure The influential environmental group Solano Land Trust has registered its formal opposition to the California Forever proposal for building a new city in Solano County on some dry farmland east of Fairfield.
SF News Trial Underway for Vacaville Mormon Bishop Accused of Sexually Abusing Adopted Daughter A former attorney and Mormon bishop in Vacaville is on trial for the sexual abuse of his then-11-year-old adopted daughter, and other church associates are giving some pretty damning testimony on the witness stand.
