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.