Napa Boy Scouts will be "Scouting for Food" Saturday collecting the bags they distributed last weekend. Please fill the bag with non-perishable food items. The food will be distributed through the Napa Valley Food Bank.

Saying that a neighbor's privacy issues had been addressed, the City Council approved an eight-home subdivision this week on Jefferson Street in north Napa.

When it comes to predicting floods, Graham Wadsworth, a senior city engineer, though not a professional weatherman, is willing to stick his neck out and act like one.

A recent letter sent to Mayor Cecil Shaver from Napa County Transportation Planning Agency Chairman Bill Dodd asked the city of American Canyon to consider a voter-approved rural urban limit (RUL) in relation to the half-cent sales tax expected to go on the ballot in June 2006. An RUL is a boundary that a city imposes on itself that limits where it can build. As suggested by Dodd, voter approval would be needed to make any changes to the boundary.

With the flu season expected to peak within weeks, many Napa Valley residents are finding it difficult to get immunized.

If this week's Napa City Council debate is any indicator, next year's hearings on the city's first condominium conversion applications will be emotional affairs.

Saying it made a mistake almost three years ago, the Napa City Council will try to make amends to residents of Woodlawn Drive in Browns Valley.

Napa's Airport Land Use Commission on Wednesday gave unanimous approval for the proposed golf course at the Montalcino at Napa Resort, slated to break ground sometime in 2006. The 18-hole championship course would consume 450 acre feet of water a year, according to Napa Sanitation District general manager Michael Abramson. "This project is a key part of our recycling program," he told the commission.

Two men were arrested in separate incidents for allegedly helping themselves to merchandise without paying for it at the Target store in South Napa Marketplace.

Since last spring, the students in Kathy Mathe's classroom have been writing to Lance Cpl. Keith Fake, her nephew, who was deployed to Iraq.

Rich LoCicero may be Napa's own anti-Wal-Mart.

Cult winemaker Jayson Woodbridge is going to have to defend allegations that he has repeatedly violated conditions of his use permit and otherwise broken county laws.

WASHINGTON -- House and Senate negotiators have struck a tentative deal on the expiring Patriot Act that would curb the FBI's investigative power and require the Justice Department to more fully report its secret requests for information about ordinary people.

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SHANGHAI, China -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was set for a packed schedule Thursday that included a tour of a steel plant with wastewater pumps made in California and a stroll down the red carpet at the Shanghai premiere of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."