Despite pressure from a small but vocal contingent, trustees of Napa Valley Unified School District unanimously voted against changing the three-week winter break next year.

A mother and daughter from American Canyon were among the honorees at a Soroptimist International award ceremony held April 6 at the Holiday Inn in Vallejo. The evening was a collaboration of the Vallejo Gateway and American Canyon chapters of Soroptimist International, a group dedicated to "improving the lives of women and girls in local communities and throughout the world."

The key to avoiding a serious outbreak of the West Nile virus in Napa County is managing water to keep mosquitoes at bay.

There's a new group in town and it needs a lot of space -- open space, that is. The group, Friends of American Canyon Open Spaces, is in the formation stage. It's an informal public/private partnership with people from city government and the community coming together to protect open lands in and around American Canyon.

We Californians have a love affair going with our automobiles. We're used to the independence that cars give us, the freedom to go wherever whenever we want.

It took the 1987 death of a Calistoga boy who had an allergic reaction to peanuts and several years of lobbying by local officials, but parents today can breathe a bit easier knowing their children are better protected against potentially deadly allergic reactions.

The Bureau of Reclamation's third extension of the comment period on the future of Lake Berryessa has come to a close, and the majority of those who wrote in suggested the lakeshore should get a makeover.

SAN RAFAEL -- Some students at three San Rafael schools are unhappy with the presence of surveillance cameras.

CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush told Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday he must not allow further West Bank settlement growth and said Israeli and Palestinian doubts about each other were hampering peace prospects.

A man facing murder charges after an erratic drive through Napa had a court hearing Monday where witnesses testified that he seemed to be under the influence before his car slammed into another vehicle and killed a woman on Jamieson Canyon Road.