Napa County firefighters are dueling a grass fire that’s scorched 450 acres of brush since it began Friday evening.

American Canyon firefighters are waiting for the green light, literally, before they move into their new digs.

St. Helena firefighter Sean Ashby was honored as 2007 Firefighter of the Year last week.

When the ACLU helped a group of Redwood Middle School students and their parents sue the Napa Valley Unified School District over their school's dress code policy in March, it ignited controversy around the world in the court of public opinion.

A few months ago Freckles was roaming the countryside, eating grass and living at a Twin Peaks herd area with fellow burros and mustangs. That changed when U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) captured the 3-year-old blue burro and entered it into its Wild Horse and Burro Program.

Eyes glowing, the red-eyed tree frog appeared to jump off the pavement, his green legs poised for flight. The frog may have drawn with chalk on pavement, but mother-daughter artist-team Christine Pasadis, and Michelle and Jessica Fowler, managed to create one lifelike amphibian.

Napa Police officers are searching for the two men responsible for a strong-arm robbery that occurred Friday night.

WASHINGTON -- Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections.

LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Liberty University's graduating class Saturday to honor the spirit of school founder Jerry Falwell by confronting "the growing culture of radical secularism" with Christian ideals.

Nurses at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville call 88-year-old resident Marie Lumos "a pistol," and it's easy to see why.

When it comes to games based on movies, the rule generally is that the game isn't going to be very good. In fact, the game is usually going to be bad -- a poorly created rush job with nothing but money in mind.

Special to the Register

Associated Press

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal agents questioned Supervisor Ed Jew and searched his City Hall office as well as several other properties tied to him.

LOS GATOS -- A 47-year-old woman was sentenced to five years in prison for stretching a rope across a mountain road and severely injuring an unsuspecting motorcyclist.

RENO, Nev. -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Saturday that Congress will not give up on the fight to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq even if President Bush ends up signing a war spending bill without the pullout provision.

WEST SACRAMENTO, -- Thousands of spectators rushed to the dusty banks of the Port of Sacramento on Saturday to catch a glimpse of two whales that took a wrong turn and swam 90 miles inland to California's capital.

Associated Press

BAGHDAD -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on his last visit to Iraq before stepping down in June, urged Iraq's leaders to speed up reconciliation efforts to end the violence in the country Saturday -- after three blasts rocked the compound where he met with Iraq's leaders.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Gunmen armed with rifles, grenades and explosives climbed down from rooftop positions Saturday and residents began venturing out of bullet-scarred homes after their leaders agreed to end a week of Palestinian factional bloodshed in Gaza.

HYDERABAD, India -- Relatives of people killed in a bomb blast at a 17th century mosque in India complained Saturday that police had not adequately protected worshippers, as angry Muslim residents pelted police with stones, injuring at least four officers.