The Napa Valley Opera House will receive nearly $1 million in property tax relief over the next decade.

Napa County Democrats did not see eye to eye with state voters, or the Democrats in neighboring counties, when it came to one of the big questions on the June 6 ballot.

Wow, it is now Day 50 since my bone marrow transplant. My time here at Stanford University Hospital has been quite the experience. This procedure is more of a commitment than I originally imagined.

Food for low-income residents

A Napa family is struggling to come to terms with the death of their loved one, a man who was preparing to return from Mexico to Napa, and they want some answers.

Napa County leaders are calling the proposed 2006/07 budget a "status quo" spending plan, but with the bottom line up 19 percent, the addition of 22 new positions and some major funding for building, the plan reflects some significant changes.

Napa County prosecutors will have to come up with more proof in their effort to refund money to the victims of a now-defunct Napa adoption agency.

Back in 1996, John Clark began a three-year battle to bring his girlfriend back to his home in Napa from her native Chile. Clark achieved that goal in 1999, married his girlfriend and began a new life with her in Napa.

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employee signed off on inflated apartment rental leases for military personnel in Kuwait in exchange for $47,000 in bribes from a real estate agent, according to a federal indictment made public Friday.

After being rebuffed in the U.S. Senate, some opponents of gay marriage think losing a court case might help their case to ban same-sex unions across the country.

Gay and lesbian couples have lawsuits in several states asserting they should be allowed to marry. Where the cases stand:

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A Mount Everest expedition leader criticized for directing his climbers past a dying British mountaineer said Saturday he did not know anyone was in trouble during his team's ascent, when the man could have been helped.

MIAMI -- A tropical depression in the Caribbean headed toward Florida on Saturday and was expected to become the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.

CHICAGO -- Itche Goldberg and Jason Rubin are separated in age by 82 years, but they're linked by a common passion for an ancient Jewish language that threatens to slip into obscurity.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents signaled the fight is still on after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, posting an Internet video Saturday showing the beheading of three alleged Shiite death squad members in revenge for killing Sunnis.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Three Guantanamo Bay detainees hanged themselves with nooses made of sheets and clothes, the commander of the detention center said Saturday.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Three Guantanamo Bay detainees hanged themselves with nooses made of sheets and clothes, the commander of the detention center said Saturday. They were the first reported deaths among the hundreds of men held at the base for years without charge.