Gooseberries. For years they seemed like the unicorn. Often written about and discussed, but never seen or even proven to exist.

Napa Valley Grapegrowers announces new hires

Riding the wave of popularity as the nation's best known celebrity host, Ryan Seacrest has been invited to serve as celebrity emcee for 2006 Auction Napa Valley, auction officials announced today.

The U.S. and European wine industries reached an agreement last weekend that could result in California wineries exporting more wines to Europe.

Goodbye Niebaum-Coppola; hello Rubicon Estate

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico and major shipping interests are bolstering Pacific ports south of the border, hoping to catch future runoff as an increasing tide of Asian cargo sails toward already clogged ports in California.

WASHINGTON -- A huge drop in energy costs helped push prices at the wholesale level down last month by the largest amount in nearly three years. But with the cost of gasoline rising again, the reprieve could be short-lived.

WASHINGTON -- Delta Air Lines Inc. is in better competitive shape than its executives portray and already achieved substantial cost savings before asking its pilots for up to $325 million in cuts, the pilots union sought to show Tuesday.

LAS VEGAS -- Ed Whitacre, the chief executive of AT&T Inc., dismissed criticisms that its planned merger with BellSouth Corp. will form a near-monopoly for Internet access and give it the clout to dictate terms to Web sites if they want to remain reachable.