A former Napa High School teacher convicted of sexually abusing a teenager was sentenced on Thursday to two years in state prison.

Napa County District Attorney Gary Lieberstein has heard stories from the state parole system, stories where parole officers tell convicts that home caregiving is a promising field for gainful employment.

Syar Industries CEO James Syar said Thursday he was puzzled by an FBI search of the company’s Sonoma County field office earlier that day.

Many in Napa County and around the American West regard Cesar Chavez as a hero who championed the rights of farmworkers.

Nearly 100 VINE bus stops will be improved over the next four years, giving riders a place to sit down. Lucky riders at some stops will even get shelter from the sun and rain.

Think of a class where you can analyze why Indiana Jones really couldn’t make one of his cinematically-enhanced jumps in real life. Now imagine solving that problem is part of your math and science homework.

Tom Bonfigli stepped down Friday after 12 years as Justin-Siena High School’s head boys basketball coach to accept the head coaching job at Cardinal Newman-Santa Rosa, the runner-up in this year’s CIF State Division IV finals.

A Napa homeless man was killed Thursday night as he and a woman companion were struck by a vehicle as they crossed Redwood Road, just west of Solano Avenue, in north Napa.

A gun-toting robber made off with cash after he walked into a service station, pointed the handgun at the clerk and demanded money, police said.

A Napa homeless man was killed on Thursday night as he and a woman companion were struck by a vehicle as they crossed Redwood Road, just west of Solano Avenue, in north Napa.

Firefighters were able contained a blaze to the master bedroom of a two-story residence in the 300 block of Tobin Avenue in Angwin.

Firefighters were able contained a Thursday night blaze to the master bedroom of a two-story residence in the 300 block of Tobin Avenue in Angwin.

Although Napa Police Officer Jim Stephenson and his partner spend their entire work day in the same patrol car, go on calls together and sometimes even have lunch with one another, verbal banter between the duo is nil.

When Joe Peatman took over the brew pub at Second and Main streets in downtown Napa, there wasn't much going on. It was 1993, and things were sleepy.

The largest proposed development in Napa County history is officially moving down a long bureaucratic path toward a vote by the Napa County Board of Supervisors.

A gun-toting robber made off with cash Thursday night after he walked into a Napa service station, pointed the handgun at the clerk and demanded money, police said.

A homeless man was killed in north Napa Thursday night as he and a female companion were struck by a vehicle as they crossed Redwood Road, just west of Solano Avenue.

Register staff

Malia Legros didn't enjoy adding to the jumble of cardboard -- boxes for diapers, cereal, a television, detergent -- overflowing from two of the Dumpsters at her apartment complex.