Boy Scouts honor local doctor

A survey showing Napa teens binge drink and experiment with illicit drugs has raised warning flags in Napa.

Housing experts can hear the sound of discrimination in Napa County. A recent study by a North Bay housing rights group found that rental seekers with an identifiable Latino voice will face discrimination or disparate treatment in Napa County 70 percent of the time.

Sometimes saving future generations of fish can be as easy as letting the grass grow.

Connie Battisti was positively glowing as she mixed and mingled with colleagues and guests at Friday's Napa Valley Vintners awards ceremony.

For six months Rosalva Avalos-Cortes has resided in Napa without any form of identification. Simple tasks like opening a bank account, cashing checks or getting a book from the library eluded her, but that changed Saturday morning when she became one of the hundreds of Mexican residents who received a Matricula Consular ID, Mexican ID card, at a registration event held in Calistoga.

MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Gamma drifted north along the coasts of Belize and Honduras on Saturday and was likely to turn onto a path that could threaten South Florida this coming week, but it was not expected to gain much strength.

HONG KONG -- For Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose much-vaunted "year of reform" agenda was soundly beaten in a special election less than two weeks ago, a three-city trade mission in the Far East could not have come at a better time.

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- Aided by an ocean breeze, firefighters on Saturday worked to contain a 3,700-acre wildfire burning in the steep hills above town.