A Napa California Highway Patrol officer was injured Thursday morning when his patrol car was hit head on by a minivan on Highway 121 near Schellville, in Sonoma County.

Due to the Napa Valley Marathon Sunday, the California Highway Patrol will supervise a rolling closure of Silverado Trail from Calistoga to Oak Knoll Avenue in Napa. Also included in the closure are Big Ranch Road and El Centro Avenue.

The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is now better protected against fires, thanks to training and equipment provided by St. Helena firefighters.

St. Helena’s sewer treatment system is at capacity, and the city council learned last week that creating a moratorium on new sewer hook-ups could create some problems of its own. It appeared, however, that the council is prepared to support a moratorium on new connections to the city’s system.

Nick Esquibel remembers when his first-grade classroom was under a tent. On rainy days it was a struggle to keep class going.

Napa County’s proposed blueprint for the valley is raising eyebrows at American Canyon City Hall, as the city officials’ vision for the future differs dramatically from that of county leaders.

It’s a sunny Saturday morning and Napa City Code Enforcement Officer Jane Thomson is zipping around Napa in a white pickup truck, collecting signs placed on sidewalks, on poles and in planter areas along Napa roads. About an hour into her shift, Thomson has already gathered a bevy of stick-mounted signs belonging to developers pitching houses for sale.

Plans for a new community of 3,200 homes at the former Napa Pipe plant are calling into question the prevailing wisdom that the city is for houses, the county for grapes.

The county’s proposed planning blueprint for the next 25 years is in a crucial phase of its development.

A bizarre coincidence inside a Napa courtroom Friday led to the arrest of a Napa man wanted in connection with a carjacking that occurred on Feb. 7.

A weeklong investigation into allegations that two Napa residents were dealing drugs out of an apartment across the street from Napa High School ended Thursday with the arrest of the two suspected drug dealers and seizure of money, drugs and weapons.

From Register Staff