Motorcycle Mama
Fifty-two years ago, Irma Wright became the first woman to buy a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Napa County.
Upvalley police chase ends with no arrest
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.
For the Record: August 8
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.
Paper ballots in 2008?
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.
Ready for the ribbons
Napan Linda Feutz, a grandmother of six, knows how to run a household with flair.
Growers OK money for farm camps
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.”
Attention Medicare and Medicaid patients
Have doctors refused to take you on as a new patient because of your Medicare or Medicaid coverage?
Porpoise watch: more sightings today
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.
Napan arrested on weekend kidnapping charge
A Napa man is behind bars after allegedly roughing up his girlfriend, attempting to kidnap her daughter and taking the victim’s pickup.
5 homeless people arrested in Bel-Aire Plaza burglaries
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.