One of the Vallejo teens accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy in American Canyon has hired a new attorney, prompting the court to delay the boys’ arraignment for another two weeks.

Three pocket parks with views of downtown waterways are in the early design stage.

Many people see local government as a monolith, one machine that takes your tax money and pays for some service you use, like public schools or streetlights.

The Napa Valley Housing Authority board of directors took their first public step Monday toward handing over their longtime leadership of three area farmworker camps to Napa County.

Veterans organizations will participate in a ceremony Saturday to commemorate the closure of Veteran’s Memorial Park for reconstruction.

Two days of activities will mark the reopening of the Goodman Library, home to the Napa County Historical Society, in April.

Police are still trying to unravel the crimes and pinpoint suspects in a homicide and separate attempted murder in downtown Napa this year.

A burglar alarm tipped off Calistoga police of a burglary early Tuesday morning, netting the arrest of three suspects.

This winter was supposed to be an “El Niño” event, with blustery, wet weather coming to the West Coast courtesy of changing ocean temperatures on the open sea between Hawaii and Alaska.

A traffic stop in Calistoga ended with the arrest of two out-of-county suspects.

On Tuesday, page A6 in the Building Business column, the last name of developer Kirk Geyer and his wife Lisa Geyer, a real estate agent with ReMax, was misspelled.

Traffic congestion in the Napa downtown parking lot next to the movie theater lead to the arrest of a Napa man and trip to the hospital for a male victim, suffering from a head wound, police said.