A mother, far right, walks her daughters home from school on Elm Street, in the first rain storm of the spring season, Thursday. More rain is expected to give Napa a good soak over the next couple of days

State Assembly Democrats wrapped up their four-day summit at Napa’s Silverado Resort Thursday, providing lawmakers an opportunity to sample some Napa delicacies and take a gander at the Napa flood control project from chartered buses.

Marooned in a scruffy light-industrial zone of auto repair shops, a bus barn and equipment rentals, two hard-luck Victorian houses will soon be floated down the Napa River for a new life in Benicia.

Detectives are looking for man who allegedly brutally beat a 45-year-old Napa woman over a couple of days, according to sheriff’s Lt. Doug Pike.

Napa County residents report more problems with identity theft and consumer fraud per capita than anyone else in the nation, according to a federal report released this week.