During his state of the state address last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed $43.3 billion in new bonds for a wish list of state projects, ranging from funds to house the state’s over-capacity prisons to even more money than the voters approved last year to improve roads and highways.

On Saturday, thousands will fill the streets of San Francisco in the Walk for Life West Coast.

A new door-to-door evening bus service aimed at Napa Valley College students and people who work at night will start within Napa city limits Wednesday.

The St. Helena Police Department has lost one of its most familiar faces: Investigator Jane Hinshaw is leaving for the Napa County District Attorney’s office.

Ward Connerly, the noted African-American activist who argues for the end of laws that allow race-based preferences, gave a speech at the Silverado Brewing Company north of St. Helena this week, addressing the topics of education and immigration.