Listed in the table below is every Napa County school and the percentage of students who tested "Proficient" or above (at grade level) in the 2007 STAR tests.

The banks along the creek that meanders through the Jonquil Vineyards used to slowly erode during the rainy season.

A federal regulation that’s scheduled to take effect in September is designed to keep employers from hiring undocumented workers, and many Napa businesses are bracing for the effects it could have on the valley’s workforce.

Lake Berryessa claimed its first drowning victim this year.

Small woman. New job. Big problems.

A Tuesday news story about Harold Moskowite should have said he will retire his post in January 2009.

A two-vehicle crash early Tuesday morning shut down Highway 29, north of Calistoga. The closed stretch of highway is the main thoroughfare over Mount St. Helena from Lake County to Napa County.

Which Democratic candidate will rise above the rest and make a go for the White House? If an informal straw poll conducted at the Napa Town and Country Fair earlier this month holds true, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, has the best chance of winning the primary.

An American Canyon officer on patrol made a traffic stop after running the license plates of the vehicle and learning they did not belong to that vehicle.

Onesimo Garcia was sentenced to 54 years to life this morning for the shooting death of his on-again off-again girlfriend Sandra Hernandez.

After a year’s delay, an ordinance toughening controls on dogs deemed potentially dangerous or vicious is about to come up for adoption by Napa County and the city of Napa.

Napa County prosecutors are going after what they allege is an illegally-established farmworker housing operation just south of Calistoga.

Before any sexually oriented business, could expose itself to Calistoga, the City Council Tuesday voted 5-0 to change a city ordinance requiring a conditional use permit to open any sex-related business locally.

MAJAHUAL, Mexico  — Hurricane Dean swept across the Yucatan peninsula Tuesday, toppling trees, power lines and houses as it bore down on the heart of Mexico’s oil industry. Glitzy resorts on the Mayan Riviera were spared, but vulnerable Mayan villages were exposed to the full fury of one of history’s most intense storms.

SAN FRANCISCO — The percentage of patents filed by foreigners living in the U.S. has tripled in the past decade — yet the tight cap on permanent visas may force entrepreneurs to return home to create rival companies in China, India and elsewhere, according to a study.

SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers on Tuesday ended a budget impasse that had dragged on for nearly two months, agreeing to a $145 billion spending plan that eliminates the state’s persistent deficit and addresses the myriad concerns of holdout Republicans.

BAGHDAD — A Black Hawk helicopter went down Wednesday in northern Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard, the military said, the deadliest crash since January 2005.