Auction Napa Valley literally uplifts Janet Wilson and her power chair.

Napa County and its cities are doing less than half of what they could to prepare for a predicted 1 million new Bay Area residents by 2020.

After initially planning to fire 25 union farm workers on July 1, the Charles Krug Winery said Friday it is postponing terminating these employees by at least a week.

Six months and several million dollars later, Napa Valley has pieced itself back together from one of the area's worst floods. The raging waters that tore through downtown Napa, damaging homes and businesses, is almost traceless.

It looked like a wounded dinosaur lying in a pool of murky water. In reality, it was an excavator that became a victim of a sinkhole east of the Napa River Thursday.

Napa: Tuesday, at Veteran's Memorial Park. Live music, food and beverages, arts and crafts vendors and a fire truck showcase. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

An electrical wire used to provide power to pump water to homes in the foothills off Monticello Road, opposite Jarvis Vineyards, caught fire on Friday afternoon, blackening about an acre of grass on the face of Mount George.

Lorraine La Voie, one of American Canyon's best known civic leaders, died suddenly at her American Canyon home Thursday, her daughter, Patti Broyles, has confirmed.