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  • Hospital upgrades drag on Sutter Health earnings

    March 23rd, 2012

    Sutter Health, the parent company of Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, today said today its 2011 net income dropped to $634 million from $878 million the previous year across the 24-hospital system, a decline of nearly 28 percent.

  • North Bay jobless rates barely changed in February

    March 23rd, 2012

    NORTH BAY — Unemployment rates across the North Bay remained high in February and were barely changed from January, but all six counties had considerably lower rates than a year before, according to state figures released this morning.

  • Homes roll out of North Bay factories

    March 19th, 2012

    NAPA and VALLEJO — A new phase of North Bay home manufacturing is rolling out of factories in Napa and Vallejo.

  • Leases and sales: Week of March 19, 2012

    March 19th, 2012

    Commercial real estate leases and sales in the north San Francisco Bay Area

  • February foreclosure rates beat state in four of six North Bay counties

    March 15th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — The proportions of homes in foreclosure in the North Bay last month matched or were below the state average in four of the six counties, and the number of properties at risk of going back to lenders fell throughout the region in recent months, according to a report released today from foreclosure data compiler RealtyTrac.

  • Copart announces two-for-one stock split

    March 12th, 2012

    FAIRFIELD — Vehicle salvage and reseller Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPRT) announced today that the company’s board of directors has approved a two-for one split of its common stock, a change that will double the number of shares to approximately 126.8 million.

  • Survey: 9 in 10 doctors won’t recommend profession

    March 12th, 2012

    NAPA — A new survey found that nine out of 10 physicians across the country are unwilling to recommend the profession to others, while 43 percent said they are contemplating retirement as a result of “transformative changes” in the health care system — results that will likely exacerbate a well-documented nationwide physician shortage.

  • Napa-Solano industrial property market recovering

    March 12th, 2012

    SOLANO and NAPA COUNTIES — The industrial real estate markets of Solano and Napa counties showed modest improvement in 2011 over 2010, as several significant leases were completed and some significant buildings sold.

  • Marin, Napa shopping space tightens; Sonoma, Solano retail stabilizes

    March 12th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — Shopping centers in Marin and Napa counties have very little available space overall, moving rents higher. Larger-population Sonoma and Solano counties have vacancy rates two to four times as high, but the markets are expected to stabilize.

  • Leases and sales: Week of March 12, 2012

    March 12th, 2012

    Commercial real estate leases and sales in north San Francisco Bay Area counties

  • California retail sales grew faster than in North Bay

    March 9th, 2012

    SACRAMENTO — Retail sales activity grew at a slower rate in the North Bay than in the rest of California in the final quarter of 2010 versus the same period in 2009, according to the most recent data made available today by the California State Board of Equalization.

  • January unemployment rises as North Bay job growth mostly slows

    March 9th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — Unemployment rates in early 2012 remained near where they ended in 2011, although every county saw a drop from the previous year, according to state figures released this morning.

  • Bill seeks to reimburse farmers for organic certification

    March 1st, 2012

    Recently introduced legislation in Sacramento would reimburse farmers for costs associated with transitioning land to certified organic production.

  • North Bay foreclosures dip in January

    February 16th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — The proportion of homes in foreclosure in the North Bay last month was below the state average in four of the six counties, with the number of properties at risk of going back to lenders falling throughout the region in recent months, according to a report released today from foreclosure data compiler RealtyTrac.

  • Q&A: John Chiang, California State Controller

    February 13th, 2012

    CALIFORNIA — John Chiang was first elected as California’s State Controller in November 2006 and was reelected to a second term in 2010.  He previously served on the state Board of Equalization, first elected in 1998, and served two terms, including three years as chair. Mr. Chiang began his career as a tax law specialist [...]

  • Vallejo wine warehouse arsonist sentenced to 27 years

    February 7th, 2012

    A federal judge in Sacramento today sentenced a 63-year-old Sausalito man to 27 years in prison and ordered him to pay $70.3 million in restitution related to the October 2005 fire at a Vallejo warehouse that destroyed an estimated $200 million to $250 million in wine.

  • Report: Napa-Solano commercial real estate stabilizes

    February 6th, 2012

    FAIRFIELD — Industrial real estate vacancy in Napa and Solano counties fell 1.4 percentage points in 2011, but immediate availability of office space in the two counties increased a percentage point over the year to even higher levels, according to reports released today.

  • Wellpoint, Anthem to put higher premium on primary care

    February 6th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — WellPoint Inc., the nation’s largest health insurance company and parent of Anthem Blue Cross, said it will pay physicians a higher reimbursement rate for primary care, a move aimed at reducing overall costs by rewarding preventative and quality care while hopefully addressing a nationwide physician shortage.

  • Nurses, NUHW hold daylong Kaiser strike

    January 31st, 2012

    NORTH BAY — The National Union of Healthcare Workers is holding a day-long strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities throughout Northern California, including hospitals in Santa Rosa, San Rafael, Vallejo and Vacaville, as the union negotiates a new contract with the health system.

  • Marin, Sonoma unemployment lowest in three years; Napa’s rate rises

    January 20th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — Unemployment rates across the North Bay in December edged downward slightly or remained at essentially the same high levels as in November, and Marin County’s jobless rate fell below 7 percent for the first time in nearly three years.

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