A Vallejo man is sitting in a Napa County jail facing assault charges at more after being arrested at an American Canyon hotel.

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 bill designed to ease development pressure on Napa County agricultural lands has run into opposition in American Canyon and a slowdown in Sacramento, where Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, was hoping to see the measure pass this year.

A decade ago Carole Wilson was a single mom in pursuit of a college degree so she could support her two children.

A 35-year-old Sonoma County woman suffered a broken ankle when the car she was driving collided head on with a big rig on Friday morning.

The Chico father of a 2-year-old girl was arrested on Thursday after hotel employees found the toddler roaming the hallway of the Marriott Hotel in Napa.

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

Napa State Hospital is a world unto itself.

Children's summer camp stats

As environmentalists participate in Earth Day activities this weekend, they are finding their movement has spread in many directions.

When Stephanie bought her Napa house in August 2003, she figured she was buying into the American dream of home ownership and the benefits of home equity. But her dream turned into two-year nightmare.

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Foreclosures begin with the borrower not making monthly payments to the lender. The first missed payment is technical default, but most lenders do not begin the process until the third payment is missed. If the lender cannot resolve the default with the borrower, foreclosure proceedings begin.

Are the 88 notices of foreclosure in the first quarter of this year in Napa -- nearly twice as many as a year ago -- a time for doom and gloom in the Napa real estate market?

Some eight years after plans for a new church near the corner of Petrified Forest Road and Highway 128 entered the labyrinth of city hall bureaucracy, the Highlands Christian Fellowship project cleared the final hurdles on its path toward a groundbreaking.

They're built to break down. That's the idea behind the design of green disposable containers.

State legislatures are rewriting legislation governing organ donations in one of the most ambitious initiatives in at least 20 years to alleviate the chronic shortage of kidneys, livers and other body parts, an effort that some doctors and ethicists fear tilts too far toward allowing organs to be taken.

The rarest view in humanity -- Earth from afar -- moves many of the lucky few observers to tears and gives them a new appreciation of that blue marble we all call home.

WASHINGTON -- The boy has drawn, in his third-grade class, a global warming timeline that is his equivalent of the mushroom cloud.

Gustavo Rodriguez had expected numerous physical exams and blood tests before checking into the hospital last July for a long-awaited kidney transplant. But he was bewildered when told to see a dentist.

BEAUFORT, S.C. -- A Navy Blue Angel jet crashed during an air show Saturday, plunging into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot, the county coroner said.

SACRAMENTO -- California's first steps toward curbing greenhouse gases should include cleaner fuels, more efficient light bulbs and a ban on retail sales of refrigerants, according to state air regulators.

BAGHDAD -- The Fallujah city council chairman, a critic of al-Qaida who took the job after his three predecessors were assassinated, was killed on Saturday, the latest blow in a violent internal Sunni struggle for control of an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.

NABLUS, West Bank -- Israeli troops killed six Palestinians, including a 17-year-old girl, in the bloodiest day of fighting this year across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said Saturday.