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 four-year battle to have Calistoga recognized as an American Viticultural Area (AVA) has hit another obstacle, and this one may have a much more far-reaching effect.

A former Department of Interior political appointee may have improperly removed federal critical habitat protection for the red-legged frog in California and other endangered species in the U.S., according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A former Napa city assistant planning director arrested for possessing child pornography has been sentenced in federal court to 4 years, 10 months in federal prison.

Two boys playing in the Napa Creek at Broadmore Drive and Partrick Road Thursday afternoon found more than old bottles and rocks. They found two old military ordinance hand grenades.

Copia’s second-ranking employee, Kurt Nystrom, was given the ax this week to free up money for new wine programs.

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.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that plummeted into the Mississippi River was “structurally deficient,” yet they relied on a strategy of patchwork fixes and stepped-up inspections.

OAKLAND — The outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police suspect was a deliberate hit.

GAUHATI, India — Teeming monsoon rains have inundated wide swaths of northern India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing at least 166 people and washing away villages and farmland that 19 million people depend on, officials said Thursday.

BAGHDAD — Ahmed Aidan sells bottled water from his small grocery in a west Baghdad neighborhood, and he’s lucky he does.

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.

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