The Napa Town and Country Fair is selling discount wristbands for unlimited carnival rides during the five-day fair starting Aug. 9.

Caltrans was scheduled to turn on the new traffic light at Silverado Trail and Hagen Road Wednesday, providing safer passage for vehicles wanting to enter the Trail.

Over the years, the numbers of Chinook salmon and steelhead spawning in the Napa River have steadily declined.

After a rocky start, Napa city council members and county supervisors have unanimously agreed to move ahead with a $14.3 million, four-level parking garage between the county jail and the downtown library.

A resident of an adult group home in Napa was stabbed by another resident early Wednesday morning, according to Napa Police.

In a 6-1 vote at Wednesday night's meeting, Napa Valley Unified School District's board of education decided to move forward with a $183 million bond to build a new high school in American Canyon and fund safety improvements districtwide.

A Vacaville pilot walked away after crashing his single-engine plane in a grassy field at the west end of Napa's Skyline Park Wednesday morning.

NEW YORK -- She wears torn nightgowns and sleeps on a couch that smells of urine. Her bland diet includes pureed peas and oatmeal. Her dogs, once a source of comfort, are kept locked in a pantry.

LOS ANGELES -- Rupert Pole, husband of Anais Nin and guardian of the diarist's erotic literary legacy detailing her simultaneous marriages to men on different coasts, has died. He was 87.

WASHINGTON -- The government is failing to reduce health risks from toxic air pollution as required by law, congressional investigators said Wednesday.

HOUSTON -- In a dramatic turnaround from her first murder trial, Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday in the drowning of her children in the bathtub.

WASHINGTON -- Just weeks after lawmakers plunged into a bitter debate on the war in Iraq, during which some Democrats called the U.S. commitment a grotesque mistake, the nation's new leader was given center stage in Congress.

WASHINGTON -- A military judge said Wednesday that e-mails from the head of the Naval Academy and a sexual abuse training video may have swayed potential jurors in the court-martial of a Navy football player charged with sexually assaulting a female midshipman.

San Jose mayor pleads not guilty to charges