The future of Napa Olympia Mobilodge may look a lot younger. A week ago the city of American Canyon moratorium expired on the conversion of the senior mobile home park into a facility for all ages.

The fate of three Napa Valley vintners accused of pouring wine without the proper license at a fundraising event remains undecided after a hearing Tuesday.

In the months before she died, Elizabeth Posey told family and friends she feared her husband was going to kill her. On April 19, 1996, she died of a single gunshot wound to the head.

In the summer of 1973, 21-year-old Juliana Inman shattered a taboo in Raleigh, N.C., working a construction job for the summer.

SAN JOSE — A veterinarian testified Tuesday he would not euthanize animals the same way that California executes inmates.

A Napa man was stabbed on Sunday in Windsor, according to the Windsor Police Department and the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department.

A Calistoga vacation weekend ended tragically for a Fairfield family Saturday evening after one of their members apparently drowned at a local resort.

Ed Keith, a well-known Napa Valley businessman, owner of Catacula Lake Winery and the Mervyn’s building in downtown Napa, died earlier this month.

Water may cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, but it’s still a finite resource needing protection. That was the lesson for about 150 Calistoga Elementary School students who spent a recent day at the Calistoga Mineral Water Co.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Two miners whose jobs included watching for safety hazards inside the Sago Mine before the deadly explosion last January committed suicide in the past month.

SAN FRANCISCO — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides on Tuesday released more details of his plan to push for the withdrawal of California National Guard troops from Iraq if he is elected governor, a strategy that drew mixed reviews in a state with a deep military tradition.

LOS ANGELES — An Army medic who fled rather than serve a second tour in Iraq because he believes war is immoral said Tuesday he will surrender to face a possible court-martial.

SACRAMENTO — California’s landmark effort to set a cap on greenhouse gas emissions is just one step in a long-term strategy by the nation’s most populous state to combat global climate change, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday in an interview.

WASHINGTON  — Despite intense partisan divisions over the course of the Iraq war, the House on Tuesday easily approved $70 billion more for military operations there and in Afghanistan. Lawmakers also adopted a record $448 billion budget for the Pentagon.

WASHINGTON — Accompanying a minor across a state line to obtain an abortion and avoid parental notification in the girl’s home state would become a federal crime under a bill the House passed Tuesday.