With temperatures expected to soar past 100 degrees this week, Napa County Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith urged residents on Tuesday to prepare for hot weather.

With federal funding for the St. Helena flood project not a done deal, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D- Calif., and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, toured the St. Helena project site Tuesday, praising each other and the community for support of the project.

The fate of accused killer Onesimo Garcia will soon be in the hands of the jury.

Rodney Friedrich’s campaign to build a hotel on his Vineland Station property in St. Helena  has been stymied by criticism from the St. Helena City Council, limitations on the city’s infrastructure and debates over whether a hotel would help or hurt the city.

An early Monday morning crash landed one man in the hospital with major injuries and another man behind bars.

On Sunday deputies stopped the car Thomas Christopher Madsen was driving for expired registration tags, according to Napa Sheriff’s Capt. John Robertson.

Two drivers were arrested in separate incidents for suspected misdemeanor DUI after they nearly clipped police cars.

They don’t have dress codes at the Napa County Fair in Calistoga, where Flo the clown was decked out in a wild costume as she twisted up balloon sculptures for kids on Sunday.

Students seeking to knock out Redwood Middle School’s strict dress code won the first round Monday, when Napa County Superior Court Judge Raymond Guadagni ruled the students and their families “established a substantial likelihood” of winning their constitutional challenge to the code.

Over the last year or so, the number of construction projects in Downtown Napa has been on the rise. In addition to the flood wall work on the west side of the river from First Street to the Napa Mill, we now have six major private projects underway. (Details on these projects can be found at www.cityofnapanews.com on the “Downtown Projects Map” page.)

A July 1 Community Bulletin Board item about a Dalcroze Eurhythmics workshop conducted by Louis Milota, Dalcroze specialist, for musicians ages 12 and up at Villa Del Rey on Saturday misstated the surname of the instructor. She is Louise Milota.

Caminanle Acaguato hangs on tight during El Charreada Sunday at the Napa County Fair. The fair continues through Wednesday.

A homeowner on Coombsville Road has filed a lawsuit against the city in connection with a sidewalk built in 2004 to serve students walking to Silverado Middle School.

The preliminary plan for the 33-acre Trancas Crossing Park on the Napa River will be presented to the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission on July 11.

The Sunday afternoon phone call brought grim news to Napa resident Emil Corky Meyers.

A vacant stretch of land south of American Canyon Road may soon grow into a small commercial center and a large park to honor the nation's veterans.

The American Canyon Wal-Mart Superstore has been in the news for years without selling a single item.