For two years, the Napa Valley Register has published the names of people convicted of driving under the influence or the lesser charge of reckless driving while under the influence in Napa County.

On a lovely Friday evening in mid-July at Napa's Chefs Market, Debbie Sampson sipped wine and enjoyed conversation with a few close friends. She was not alone. Dozens of people routinely have a taste at Chefs Market, taking in the sights and sounds of the summertime events that have become a sort of community social hour for many Napans.

The sun was shining, music was playing and dancers were dancing at the Napa Valley Expo Sunday, during a first-time festival designed to bring Latino and Anglo cultures together.

After more than two years of legal wrangling, claims in Napa County Superior Court that the Jehovah's Witnesses church failed to stop incidents of child sex abuse here are inching toward trial.

Jim Asbury is doing what no other person in Napa County has been able to do in recent memory: organizing the community to begin to meet the needs of local foster care children and foster parents.

How much does a DUI cost? A lot.

Napa County Sheriff's deputies arrested an El Sobrante man in the latest of a string of burglaries that have plagued a Napa business.

A Labor Day procession through downtown St. Helena of about 300 people, many wearing white T-shirts and waving American flags, resembled marches earlier this summer calling for amnesty for illegal immigrants.