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

Editor's note: This is the fourth in an occasional series where Register outdoors columnist George Carl and his wife Andi Burke-Carl chronicle their experience as George goes through a bone marrow transplant.

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.

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.

The man who has been doing the job of heading up Napa County's Local Agency Formation Commission for the past four months says he feels validated.

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

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.