Napa County voters on Feb. 5 will make their pick in the presidential primary, but now there will be at least one local issue: Whether Billy Wilcoxson should be able to have winetasting and a full-service deli at his Stanly Lane Marketplace.

Deluged with an outpouring of concern from Napa Creek residents wanting flood protection, the local flood control board promised Tuesday to make the creekside neighborhood a higher priority.

Plans for a center turn lane on Highway 29 have been creeping along like the St. Helena traffic they are supposed to alleviate.

Until at least Thursday, baseball players and fans at Kennedy Park won’t hear ‘batter up.’

The fate of a San Diego man on trial for the stabbing death of a Vintage High School graduate will soon be in the hands of the jury.

Firefighters hope to have a wildland fire that is burning on Mountain Home Ranch, near Petrified Forest Road, west of Calistoga, contained by Wednesday morning. The blaze, which broke out around 5:15 p.m., Monday, had burned about 45 acres as of Tuesday afternoon, according to a CalFire spokeswoman.

A fire ripped through an attic in a two-story house in the 200 block of Jefferson Street late Monday night.

A wildland fire west of Calistoga on Home Mountain Road near Petrified Forest Road, has been extinguished, according to fire officials.

Following an almost two-month investigation, drug agents arrested a Calistoga man on suspicion of selling drugs Upvalley, according to a press release from the Napa Special Investigation Bureau.