Best News Pictures of 2017.

Damian Sellers plays in the fountain at the Government Center in Fairfield, Calif., Aug. 26, 2017. Many residents in Solano County sought creative ways to cool down as temperatures reached triple digits.

Carolyn Sowels walks by a window frame during the inaugural Hatter's Tea honoring phenomenal black women at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Suisun City, Calif., March 25, 2017. The event was a collaboration of Fairfield, Suisun City and Vacaville Region of National Council for Negro Women.

A crowd watches as cars zip down the track during the Pinewood Derby at Lowe's Home Improvement in Fairfield, Calif., March 25, 2017. Boy Scouts make a little race car from a block of wood to compete in the 8th annual race.

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger prepares for his flight in a Thunderbird at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., May 4, 2017. Sullenberger, a Danville resident, successfully crash-landed a US Airways aircraft into the Hudson River in New York City in 2009, saving everyone on board.

Ken Archer, center, takes his dog, Rusty, to safety during a 3-alarm fire along Wiley Lane in Fairfield, Calif., June 29, 2017. Multiple fire agencies responded to the blaze, which was first reported at approximately 1:15 p.m. According to Suisun Fire Protection District Battalion Chief John Zazrivy, there was no municipal or internal water supply to help fight the fire.

Smoke from the Atlas Fire rises over Suisun Valley in Fairfield, Calif., Oct. 10, 2017. The fire burned more than 50,000 acres and destroyed dozens of homes.

Arthur Schaper, a Trump supporter, is cornered at a gas station after he was chased from MLK park in response to a far-right rally held in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley, August 27, 2017.

Paramedics take Raymond Lee McDonald into an ambulance following a shooting in front of Country Corner Liquors along West Texas Street in Fairfield, Calif., March 14, 2017. McDonald died later in the evening at a nearby medical facility.

Mourners attend a candlelight vigil in wake of the events in Charlottesville, Va., at Civic Center Park in Berkeley, Calif., Aug. 13, 2017. The demonstrations in Virginia over the weekend left one woman dead and many injured.

Vietnam veteran Mike Cobb, who served in the U.S. Army infantry in 1969 and 1970, poses for a portrait in Fairfield, Calif., June 28, 2017.

Firefighters respond to a house fire on Oakridge Drive in Fairfield, Calif., Jan. 3, 2017. The fire destroyed one home at an estimated loss of $600,000. Two people escaped the multiple-alarm blaze without injury.

A kayaker paddles into the Suisun Slough as high tide nears at the boat launch in Suisun City, Calif., Feb. 10, 2017.