After monthly sessions wrestling over the county's viewshed ordinance, which governs ridgeline development in the unincorporated areas, the planning commission clarified contentious terms of the ordinance with little public fanfare.

American Canyon residents on Tuesday chose an old name in city politics to serve as former Councilwoman Lori Luporini’s replacement.

Perhaps the most expensive, multi-faceted media barrage in Napa County political history has gone into the record books.

Voters Tuesday soundly rejected Measure H, the half-cent transportation sales tax, but what's not clear is what happens next.

A four-car pile up on Tuesday afternoon sent three people to the emergency room and closed Highway 29 for a short time.

The 60 Valley Oak High School seniors who earned diplomas Wednesday know the meaning of having a second chance.

TORONTO -- It promises to be a grand June wedding, two scarlet-coated officers of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police standing before a justice of the peace with an escort of similarly spiffy Mounties observing the nuptials on the eve of Canada Day, a national holiday.

Angela and Tom Jimenez have looked to Lake Berryessa for summertime fun since they were teenagers.

Graduates from New Technology High were a little nervous, a little scared, but very proud during their ceremony Wednesday night. The small senior class graduated 53 students, and was the ninth class to graduate from the school.

Shortly after 4 p.m. a plume of black smoke, visible for miles around, streaked across the southern Napa Valley sky.

LOS ANGELES -- An FBI agent pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of disclosing classified information for warning a suspected Chinese spy he was under investigation.

Man pleads guilty to beating death of infant

LOS ANGELES -- There was no Warren Beatty, no Rob Reiner, no Hollywood pizzaz to the Democratic gubernatorial primary and voters noticed -- or maybe they didn't.

LOS ANGELES -- The principal of a Los Angeles charter elementary school said Wednesday that neither he nor his staff ordered the assault of a KABC-AM radio reporter last week.