A series of five small fires burned near Highway 29 in southern Lake County Monday afternoon, destroying a handful of buildings and temporarily closing Highway 29.

If you were lucky, you had a thin foam mattress pad on your camping bed.

While as many as 120 high school seniors from the class of 2006 await the results of their high school exit exams, the Napa Valley Unified School District is taking an aggressive stance towards making sure students pass the test and get their diplomas.

The family of a man shot to death by a sheriff’s deputy has filed a wrongful death claim against Napa County and the sheriff’s department.

Plans to divide a key piece of land in Capell Valley owned by Napa County Supervisor Harold Moskowite could lead to future development of up to 100 homes, though the lack of available infrastructure will likely keep it in grapes in the near term.

The Napa Valley Register won first place awards for investigative journalism and photography in the 2005 California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest.

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More than 1,500 Napa employees, members of Local 1000 of the Service Employees International Union, joined their colleagues around the state to vote overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract after weeks of contentious bargaining.

A Napa man who was accused of domestic violence Feb. 23 was cleared of wrongdoing.

Mercedes and Pismo have been spared the fate of the Grim Reaper.

In 2002, local voters gave the Napa Valley Unified School District $95 million to modernize its buildings.

Last school year, the state of California required all high school seniors to pass an exit exam in order to receive their diplomas.

If the 95 degree heat didn't get to you just a little Monday, then you must not have stepped outside.

HOUSTON — Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay, who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Colorado. He was 64.

NEW YORK -- Broiling temperatures in the 90s and beyond gripped large swaths of the country Monday, sending people scrambling for the shade and prompting officials to open air-conditioned buildings and take to the streets to rescue the homeless and elderly.

SEBASTOPOL -- Did someone in this wine country town illegally plant an endangered flower to sabotage a proposed housing development? That is the question at the center of a quarrel folks here have dubbed "Foamgate."

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Westerners fled by land, sea and air Monday as Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon briefly and Hezbollah rockets knocked down a three-story house in northern Israel. However, there were signs of movement on the diplomatic front to end the worst fighting in 24 years.