Fifty-two years ago, Irma Wright became the first woman to buy a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Napa County.

Calistoga police, along with the California Highway Patrol, gave chase to a driver who decided to make a break for it up St. Helena Mountain late Monday night.

The headline of an Aug. 3 story on A3 about a brawl at the Napa Valley Expo misstated the month in which the fight occurred. The fight happened in June.

Unless a successful legal challenge is mounted against the Secretary of State’s office by California counties, Napa County will be voting largely by paper ballot in the next election season, according to Napa County Registrar of Voters John Tuteur.

Napan Linda Feutz, a grandmother of six, knows how to run a household with flair.

Napa County officials announced Tuesday that local grape growers voted to tax themselves for another five years to pay to operate Upvalley farmworker housing camps, supporting a housing solution that advocates call “clean, safe and affordable.”

Have doctors refused to take you on as a new patient because of your Medicare or Medicaid coverage?

The harbor porpoise — or two — spotted last week and throughout the weekend in the Napa River near Copia and Main Street may still be swimming in the river, though they may have left the downtown area.

A Napa man is behind bars after allegedly roughing up his girlfriend, attempting to kidnap her daughter and taking the victim’s pickup.

Surveillance and patrol of a troubled area in the Bel-Aire Plaza paid off early this morning for Napa police with the arrest of five suspects.

NEW YORK — Airlines and aviation-related companies sued the CIA and the FBI on Tuesday, asking a federal court to let them interview investigators who can tell whether the aviation industry was to blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks or whether it had acted reasonably.

HEBRON, West Bank — Israeli security forces armed with sledge hammers, chain saws and power clippers smashed through the fortified doors of a building in the holy city of Hebron on Tuesday to evict two Jewish settler families and hundreds of supporters.

SANTA ANA — Federal authorities announced Tuesday they have charged eight people and two businesses with negligent and illegal activity that allegedly caused nine wildfires that together burned across hundreds of thousands of acres around California.

LOS OLIVOS — Firefighters wrapped an historic tavern in aluminum on Tuesday to protect it from an advancing blaze that continued to threaten dozens of rural cabins in northern Santa Barbara County.

ST. LOUIS — Much of the nation continued to sweat Tuesday under oppressive heat, made worse by high humidity, that stretched from the Midwest to the East Coast.