Napa County Superior Court Judge has ordered the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to pay a local environmental group $25,000 to cover legal fees in a dispute over the clearing and planting of a proposed vineyard near Calistoga.

Organizers are still counting the beans, but unofficial reports are that county youth programs and the Calistoga community pool project could share about $50,000 earned from this year's Napa Classic event, held July 23.

As of this writing we are only a month and a half away from the first anniversary of Calistoga's Relay for Life event! Time flies by so amazingly these days, so I guess I'm in a very anniversary state of mind this week.

Retired Napa County Sheriff's Capt. Ken Narlow is no longer obliged to track the case of the Zodiac killer, who terrorized the Bay Area with a string of killings in the 1960s and '70s who and taunted law enforcement officers with his calls and letters.

The Napa Valley Land Stewards Alliance spent $30,000 between January and June in the campaign to push for two ballot initiatives, one to change the way the county enacts land use regulations, and one to seek more accountability from local elected officials.

In what Supervisor Brad Wagenknecht called one the Napa County Board of Supervisors' more pleasant duties, the five elected officials this week doled out $874,311 to organizations in Napa County that serve children from birth to age 5.

Seventeen young adults have taken their anti-abortion message to the road -- literally.

It was a veritable love fest as members of the newly formed Napa County General Plan Steering Committee started their first official meeting Wednesday.

Retired Napa County Sheriff's Capt. Ken Narlow is no longer obliged to track the case of the Zodiac killer, who terrorized the Bay Area with a string of killings in the 1960s and '70s who and taunted law enforcement officers with his calls and letters.

The Napa Valley Land Stewards Alliance spent $30,000 between January and June in the campaign to push for two ballot initiatives, one to change the way the county enacts land use regulations, and one to seek more accountability from local elected officials.

A head-on crash in South Napa early Wednesday morning sent seven people to the hospital with minor injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol.

In what Supervisor Brad Wagenknecht called one the Napa County Board of Supervisors' more pleasant duties, the five elected officials this week doled out $874,311 to organizations in Napa County that serve children from birth to age 5.

SEATTLE -- The man convicted of plotting to blow up the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in prison.

Seventeen young adults have taken their anti-abortion message to the road -- literally.

It was a veritable love fest as members of the newly formed Napa County General Plan Steering Committee started their first official meeting Wednesday.

NEWARK, N.J. -- When the temperature goes up, business goes down for Kingsley Horton's lunch truck, and this has been a particularly bad week.

WALLACE, Idaho -- The convenience store clerk's suspicions were raised when the scraggly, dirty man wearing camouflage walked in shortly after midnight and asked for a package of cold hot dogs.