Napa school board members are encouraging Vintage High School administrators to consider switching to a seven-period day to help solve troubles over adding additional classes.

A Napa woman reported missing by her family Thursday night was found unharmed in a Sonoma County vineyard this morning.

If any of the more than 5,000 Oat Hill Mine Road Trail visitors veer too far north or south on their way from their cars at Highway 29 and Silverado Trail near Calistoga to the trailhead, they aren’t visitors anymore. They’re trespassers.

There have been three confirmed cases of E. coli in Napa County, affecting children who ate at two Little League baseball snack shacks, according to the county department of health and human services.

A front page story on April 13 about local banks misstated two facts about Napa Community Bank.

Faced with a surge in hotel construction with the promise of more projects to come, Napa will study how many more rooms the market can handle.

A plan by Kendall-Jackson founder Jess Jackson to build a winery and visitor’s complex in bucolic Knights Valley continues to drive a wedge between neighbors in the Franz Valley/Knights Valley area.

Howell Mountain School, the only campus in the smallest public school district in Napa County, could become a lot larger under a plan proposed by Pacific Union College.

Spanish outreach coordinator Luis Juarez; Edgar Avina, 15; and Jose Carrasco, 19, pray with the St. John’s Catholic Church youth group during a candlelight vigil Thursday night in response to the shootings at  Virginia Tech. Lianne Milton/Register