Disaster training offered

St. Helena principal runs candidate off campus

Once criticized as an uncompetitive race, the Calistoga City Council campaign now features three residents challenging two incumbents, making it one of the most heated races in the county. Separately, Mayor Dr. Andrew Alexander is stepping down and two councilmembers are vying for the seat.

Running for office in American Canyon is not as inexpensive as one might think.

Napa's electric bill just got a lot smaller.

WASHINGTON -- No sooner did Congress authorize construction of a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexican border last week than lawmakers rushed to approve separate legislation that ensures it will never be built, at least not as advertised, according to Republican lawmakers and immigration experts.

WASHINGTON -- The House's investigation of a page sex scandal has only one certainty: Former Rep. Mark Foley will escape punishment by his peers.

Most sporting Cheshire grins, a sell-out crowd filed out of the Napa Valley Opera House Thursday night all abuzz over the splendid wine country debut of swing jazz vocalist Steve Tyrell.

WEDNESDAY

NAME -- Jerry Brown

OAKLAND -- More than a quarter-century after he burst on the California political scene as secretary of state, Jerry Brown is back on the ballot, this time aiming for attorney general.

MELLIT, Sudan -- Myriam Ibrahim does not like to talk about her daughter Fawzia.

TIJUANA, Mexico -- Rising from the Pacific surf and zig-zagging along the border for 14 miles, Tijuana's border fence has done little but push illegal migrants into the Arizona desert and feed the smuggling industry since it went up in 1994.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Tensions mounted over North Korea's threat to test its first atomic bomb, with shots ringing out Saturday along the border with South Korea and Japan warning of harsh sanctions if Pyongyang goes nuclear.

PARIS -- As the first European memorial to journalists killed on the job was inaugurated Saturday, word trickled in that two reporters had been shot to death in Afghanistan and another was killed in Russia.