GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- On a common-sense level, it is obvious. When a forest burns, the trees are dead. So you cut them down, haul them to the sawmill, and plant new ones. Soon the blackened hillsides will be covered with healthy green trees.

BASEL, Switzerland -- Swiss drug maker Roche has found itself sitting on a gold mine with its Tamiflu antiviral drug in hot demand as the best defense against an influenza pandemic.

Bank of Napa gets OK

The 2005 California winegrape harvest, already declared the second largest in history, also could be one of the best vintages from a quality standpoint, a group of vintners from around the state said this week.