As reports of the devastation of a Dec. 26 tsunami continue flooding into homes in the Napa Valley, many Upvalley residents are answering a call to stand up and do something to help the survivors.

Braving the rain and cold Jan. 4, Napa County District 3 Supervisor Diane Dillon dropped in on the Calistoga City Council to drum up support for the county General Plan update process.

Just as the Community Foundation of the Napa Valley, which has recently established a fund to aid Calistoga nonprofit agencies, is committed to helping those in need in the Napa Valley, they Napa-based company is joining countless others to offer support to the victims of the recent earthquake and tsunamis in South Asia.

For a small service organization, Calistoga's Rotary Club really takes the cake.

This is probably the last time this year I'm going to express this sentiment publicly, but it's still a happy new year, and it's getting even better.

Upvalley chambers of commerce have been recruiting people who want to be a part of the first comprehensive survey on tourism in the Napa Valley to be conducted in a little more than a decade.

For years the hole in Lincoln Avenue's downtown commercial district commonly known as the Glideport has been home to little more than pipe dreams about the future of development there.

If you suffer from an uncontrollable urge to move your legs, have numbness in your limbs and it gets worse at night, you may be one of an estimated 12 million Americans with an often misdiagnosed sleep thief called Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS).

Just after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled his spending plan for the coming year, Napa County supervisors started the six-month planning process toward the 2005-2006 budget of approximately $240 million.

A Calistoga man is taking the county to court over its approval of his neighbor's construction project, charging officials blundered by giving the green light to a faulty erosion control plan.

About 60 workers from the two state hospitals in Napa County gathered at the entrance to the Veterans Home of California at Yountville on Wednesday and staged a protest to the governor's proposed budget cuts.