With a lot of preparation, but little discussion, the St. Helena Unified School District trustees have unanimously approved a $19.05 million General Fund budget.

Facing a $2.6 million budget shortfall over the next fiscal year, Queen of the Valley Medical Center announced cutbacks this week, including eliminating positions, a hiring freeze and decreases in hours or status for several workers.

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta pumping station that supplies water for American Canyon and other North Bay cities could be subject to shut-downs next year because of the reported danger they pose to an endangered fish called the Delta smelt, public officials said last week.

Bob Hauch is a seventh-grade teacher at St. John’s Lutheran School and an active coach in basketball, volleyball and track. During what he thought was a routine colonoscopy last August; he was diagnosed with colon cancer.

It’s been two months since the city made over the Trancas/Soscol/Big Ranch intersection, leaving motorists suddenly unable to make turns they had practiced for decades.

The Napa Police Department has issued an alert to law enforcement agencies around the state, informing them to be on the lookout for a missing Napa Police Department-issued gun.

Car vs. motorcycle

SAN FRANCISCO — Brandon Saunders, 16, had been saving his allowance and birthday money for months to get one of Apple Inc.’s coveted iPhones.

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The Napa Police Officer’s Association and the Friends of Mike White have joined forces to help out Michael White, a mechanic at Napa city’s maintenance yard for many years, who has been diagnose with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

FRESNO — A statewide police shortage has brought a surge in demand for cadets graduating from training academies, with top law enforcement officials unabashedly lining up to court rookie cops.

4.0 GPA, Eighth Grade

4.0 GPA, Sixth grade

I've always enjoyed role-playing games, even ones that follow the same standard rules and stories as every other basic role-playing game. Every once in a while, though, one comes along that plays around with the norm.

Something wonderful has begun happening with this new column of ours. Folks are starting to e-mail me news of events that sound very exciting for us seniors. For instance, how would you like to join a group of seniors, 60 years and older, taking a new class through the Napa Valley College Community Education Program on riding adult tricycles?

Matthew Ringard, a professional actor attending Napa High School in the fall, says there is nothing like being on stage.

WASHINGTON — The harder President Bush has pushed to win in Iraq, the closer he has come to losing.

BAGHDAD — Two American soldiers have been charged with premeditated murder for allegedly killing three Iraqis and then planting weapons on their bodies to portray them as combatants, the U.S. military said Saturday.

GLASGOW, Scotland — A Jeep Cherokee trailing a cascade of flames rammed into Glasgow airport on Saturday, shattering glass doors just yards from passengers at the check-in counters. Police said they believed the attack was linked to two car bombs found in London the day before.

MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia -- Nora McNulty, a Scottish grandmother, began climbing the hill at 5:50 a.m., having traveled 1,300 miles in search of something hard to find at home.