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