Due to customer demand, Jacque’s Barn, in St. Helena, is now open Thursday through Sunday. The store is at 1281 Vidovich Ave.

For the 22nd consecutive year, the Rotary Club of Napa recently honored local educators as teachers of the year.

Each Wednesday the Napa Valley Register’s Business Focus features “10 Questions” for a local entrepreneur. Readers are welcome to suggest businesspeople to be profiled.

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart and rival Target are brewing up a price war for toys, electronics and other things consumers may want for Christmas that could spell savings for shoppers, but profit woes for retailers in the critical holiday quarter.

NEW YORK — The explosive run-up in technology stocks that ended so badly early in the decade laid bare the risks in chasing performance and throwing money at any company with a dot-com in its name. Investors took their lumps and many waited patiently before essentially repeating the exercise a few years later, this time in Asia.

NEW YORK — Before David Filkins retired from his job as a computer software engineer, he wanted to make sure that all the calculations he had done about financing his retirement years were on target.

The holidays epitomize America’s shameless obsession with stuff — and getting more of it.