Napa artist Gordon Huether moves a piece of his Victorian-style stained glasswork under the sunlight. A bright beam makes a festival of colors on the floor of his workshop, with patches of yellow and blue flanked by small green spots splayed out like constellations on a clear summer night.

The former Napa Pipe site is a hot property, with developers hoping to revamp the 152 riverfront acres south of the city.

Roberto Gonzalez had his heart set on returning to Mexico. But instead, he could be having his mail delivered to state prison for the rest of his life.

Three Cub Scouts were reunited with their troop after being lost for about an hour and half at Robert Louis Stevenson park in St. Helena.

The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for the Napa River at St. Helena Monday afternoon.

While celebrities such as U2's Bono and Microsoft's Bill Gates have taken on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa with charitable donations, on Thursday local women of diverse denominations will wrestle this epidemic through prayer.

Voters in both Napa and Solano counties will be asked in the June 6 election to improve safety and lessen congestion on Jamieson Canyon Road.

NEW ORLEANS -- The crowds were small and the costumes wickedly satirical as Mardi Gras built toward its boozy climax Tuesday in this hurricane-buckled city that could use a few laughs.

A two-vehicle crash snarled traffic Tuesday morning and injured three people, one seriously, on Highway 121 near the Napa-Sonoma county line.

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, introduced a resolution Tuesday calling for the withdrawal of American troops in Iraq.

The Napa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to affirm that Planning Commissioner David Graves, co-founder and owner of Saintsbury Winery, does not have a conflict of interest regarding Jayson Woodbridge's One True Vine Winery and can sit in judgment of Woodbridge's operation.

Margaret Lee, a dedicated and long-time member of the Napa Valley College Board of Trustees, passed away Sunday. She was 75.

The secretary of state was in Napa Tuesday. Not Condoleezza Rice, but California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson. McPherson met with the Napa County Board of Supervisors and then toured the Napa County elections office. From left, elections official Cindy Book, Napa County Clerk John Tuteur, McPherson and his wife, Mary McPherson, share a laugh. McPherson told supervisors he would hold a public hearing in Sacramento today to determine whether Napa County's Sequoia voting system would be certified for the upcoming primary. Tuteur is confident that will occur.

A Feb. 27 story about union negotiations at Charles Krug Winery misstated the name of another Napa County winery where workers are represented by the United Farm Workers of America. The winery is St. Supery, not Saintsbury.