The VINE Transit will not operate on Monday, Labor Day.

Napa’s new downtown garage will not only be the biggest in town, but will have something that the other three don’t have: art.

It’s officially hot outside. With temperatures in the 90s up and down the valley, and more to come, Napa County residents are doing their best to stay cool.

The Labor Day holiday weekend usually signifies the end of summer — the last chance to party-hearty, enjoy the outdoors and soak in those dog-days of summer.

When Dr. Eric Grigsby of Napa learned about the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, he decided to become a part of their mission.

Officers responded on Wednesday afternoon to fight at Trancas Street and Claremont Way.

A vehicle fire around 5:30 p.m., Thursday, spread into the grass alongside the road, charring less than an half acre of grass. No one was hurt.

Water conservation measures and the threat of rationing have made St. Helena residents aware of the drought’s effect on Bell Canyon reservoir. But the city’s lower reservoir is hurting even more.

Firefighters are praising the quick actions of an apartment manager, who squelched a kitchen fire before it got out of hand.

Nebraska — Liquor Control Commission destroyed 1,123 gallons of illegal wine Wednesday discovered in Lincoln County, Neb. Officials believe the wine belonged to winemaker David Jurena who brought the wine into Nebraska from the Napa Valley.

Paul Deleon Pena is behind bars after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her at his residence in the 300 block of Cross Street in Napa on Wednesday, police said.

A Vallejo man arrested on a total of 31 counts of child pornography, including other lesser charges, has been held to answer to four felonies and a laundry list of misdemeanor counts.

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. weapons inspectors discovered a potentially hazardous chemical warfare agent that was taken from an Iraqi chemical weapons facility 11 years ago and mistakenly stored in their offices in the heart of midtown Manhattan all that time, officials said Thursday.

FRESNO — Consumer advocates and some lawmakers say that a Salinas Valley company’s recall of spinach because of a salmonella scare shows that the federal government must do more to protect the nation’s food supply, but industry officials call it proof that their voluntary regulations are working.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A father who was too drunk to drive had his 11-year-old son get behind the wheel of his pickup and drive them home, authorities said.

JANDA, Afghanistan — Taliban militants released the last seven South Korean hostages on Thursday under a deal with the government in Seoul, ending a six-week drama that the insurgents claimed as a “great victory for our holy warriors.”

RICHMOND, Va. — With anguished parents demanding his firing, Virginia Tech’s president bristled at suggestions Thursday that he bears responsibility for the bloodbath on campus, calling it a crime “unprecedented in its cunning and murderous results.”

LONDON — Princess Diana is at rest, but the passions that swirled around her tempestuous marriage to Prince Charles are still evident as friends and family prepare to commemorate her life at a memorial service Friday.

RALEIGH, N.C. — In 1981, rookie congressman Bill Hendon left a Capitol Hill intelligence briefing convinced that there were American prisoners of war from Vietnam still alive and in captivity in Southeast Asia.