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  — Lindleigh Whetstone wears headphones as she shoves clothes into the washing machine.

LONDON — Declining oil prices and mounting safety spending sent BP PLC’s fourth-quarter profit down 22 percent to a two-year low, the oil company said Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO  — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest private employer, must face a class-action lawsuit alleging female employees were discriminated against in pay and promotions.

From the main street, to the back streets; from the mountaintops to the Napa River, the spirit of Calistoga and its residents make the community of 5,200 a special place.