Demolition of the county-owned block at Third and Coombs streets is in high gear. The site is being cleared of a collection of older residential and service buildings, including the Sullivan adult homeless shelter. Shelter residents moved to new facilities in south Napa. The $112,000 demolition clears the way for a possible parking garage or a county administrative building. The photo was taken Monday from the roof of the county building across Coombs, looking west, with First Presbyterian Church in the distance. Greg Hess/Register photos

The highest ranking federal official ever to visit the Napa flood control project returned a second time Wednesday to offer praise, but not extra money.

An elderly Napa couple are dead in what investigators say was a murder-suicide that happened late Tuesday in a north Napa home.

LOS ANGELES -- Ian Copeland, the rock music agent and entrepreneur who represented The Police, R.E.M., Adam Ant, The Go-Go's and other seminal rock groups that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s New Wave and Punk scenes, has died. He was 57.

Napa County Supervisors Tuesday adopted a resolution terminating the state of emergency that had existed since massive flooding occurred last New Year's Eve.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the state high school exit exam as a graduation requirement for this year's senior class, but the ruling may have little effect on Napa-area students.