Elections Department encourages early voting

Wild parrots return for 'a grand time'

Some parts of Napa County are seeing their groundwater supplies diminish, but help may be on the way.

Napa might not be known for winter blizzard conditions, but a warm winter coat still is a must.

Napa drug agents make meth, cocaine bust

A young Napan's musical journey -- he hopes to the top of the rap world -- will begin today at Napa's Boys & Girls Club. While he's on stage delivering his smooth rhymes he'll also be raising money for the American Red Cross and Queen of the Valley Hospital's CARE Network.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its final Environmental Impact Statement for the Lake Berryessa Visitor Services Plan on Friday, more than a month after it was delayed to allow more public comments from residents who want to keep the Bureau from removing trailers from the lake's shores.

WASHINGTON -- The nation's most comprehensive survey of housing, demographic and socio-economic data was saved Friday when congressional budget negotiators rejected a plan to cut the Census Bureau's spending plan.

HOUSTON -- Authorities searched for a death row inmate Friday who slipped off his handcuffs, changed into street clothes and bluffed his way out of jail by flashing a fake ID badge with a photo of himself.

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terrorism suspects in U.S. custody, according to participants in a closed-door session.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The fate of a convicted rapist accused of stabbing a girl to death nearly four decades ago is now in the hands of a San Francisco jury.

SACRAMENTO -- Secretary of State Bruce McPherson predicted Friday that 42 percent of the state's 15.8 million registered voters will cast ballots in Tuesday's special election.

LOS ANGELES -- A family who claims toxic mold in their home caused brain damage in their baby has reached a $22.6 million settlement against a lumber company and 16 other defendants.

BEIJING -- China and Vietnam reported new bird flu outbreaks in poultry Friday despite massive prevention efforts, while Japan prepared to destroy 180,000 birds to stop a suspected outbreak and Thailand announced plans to distribute its own generic anti-viral drug.

LE BLANC MESNIL, France -- Bands of youths roaming Parisian suburbs burned more than 500 vehicles and hurled stones at police Friday, as the worst rioting in a decade entered its second week and spread elsewhere in France. The U.S. warned Americans against taking trains to the airport via strife-torn areas.

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine.