Fiona is only about six weeks old but in her very short life span, the miniature pinscher has touched the hearts of many people.

While Fiona got a lucky break, another local puppy is in need of assistance.

Duckhorn Wine Company has sold a controlling interest in the company to a financial investment firm with offices in Menlo Park and London.

Following a marathon 13-hour negotiating session, the county and its largest union compromised late Tuesday on a two-year tentative contract that gives a pay raise to county workers.

The Our Towns magazine inserted with the July 28 Register omitted a Napa church in its Houses of Worship listing and a winery in its Winery listing.

After the shocking Interstate bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Napa public works officials are thanking their stars for the Napa River-Napa Creek flood control.

The cetacean visitor pictured swimming in the Napa River has been identified as a harbor porpoise, a spokesman for The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito said Thursday.

The dolphin or porpoises sighted up and down the Napa River this week have been hanging around the First Street Bridge area in Napa all morning.

WASHINGTON — Democrats pushed through legislation Wednesday to add 6 million lower-income children to a popular health insurance program while making deep cuts in federal payments to Medicare HMOs, defying a veto threat from President Bush.

HELENA, Mont. — The top four fires in the West burned in Montana on Wednesday as hot, dry weather continued to fuel blazes that threatened hundreds of homes on a day that would normally mark the beginning of the summer wildfire season.

BAGHDAD — Baghdad shook with bombings and political upheaval Wednesday as the largest Sunni Arab bloc quit the government and a suicide attacker blew up his fuel tanker in one of several attacks that claimed 142 lives nationwide.

WASHINGTON — Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys — including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters — because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.

Real Napa Editor, By MIKE TRELEVEN

Napa Elks Lodge 832 is proud to announce the 2007 recipients of the Elks Larison Scholarship grants, totaling $14,000 to 14 students.

Napa County youth received much needed computer hardware on July 17, thanks to Travis Credit Union.

We thank you for your enthusiastic support of Pic of the Litter.

We're watching a movie trailer: A party full of young, sexy Manhattanites is suddenly disrupted by a massive explosion. The revelers run into the street as someone yells: "I saw it, it's alive, it's huge" -- and the disembodied head of the Statue of Liberty comes flying down the street.