Editor's note: This is one in an occasional series of stories tracking Napa pilot Dean Stahr on his solo flight around the world.

State and federal legislation affecting Napa County is constantly under surveillance by local officials, and this week the Napa County Board of Superviors and staffers raised red flags regarding two bills under consideration in Sacramento.

A popular community policing program axed because of budget woes is back.

By PAT STANLEY

You don't have to be a girl to be a nurse or a boy to be a firefighter. And, if you really want to, you might even find it's possible to pull off a career as a poet.

A Napa judge ruled Tuesday that if a citizen's group can pony up a $180,000 bond, he will temporarily block Wal-Mart from breaking ground on a planned American Canyon Supercenter.

Editor's note: This is one in an occasional series of stories tracking Napa pilot Dean Stahr on his solo flight around the world.

A Napa woman may have suffered a broken arm when her mini-van ran off the road in downtown Napa and plowed into a tree around noon on Tuesday, Napa Police said.

State and federal legislation affecting Napa County is constantly under surveillance by local officials, and this week the Napa County Board of Superviors and staffers raised red flags regarding two bills under consideration in Sacramento.

A popular community policing program axed because of budget woes is back.

SACRAMENTO -- California wildlife regulators took the first step Tuesday to bar hunters from using the Internet to hunt animals long distance, responding to a Texas target shooting site that announced plans to let hunters fire guns at real animals by clicking a computer mouse hundreds of miles away.