Almost every year, California goes through a frustrating annual summer ritual; delay of the state budget.

On the Redwood

So here we are with just a few days until the Legislature is to adjourn and the year's biggest issue -- expanding health-insurance coverage to the 6.7 million Californians who don't have it -- is still very much up in the air.

The flash and fire of the Sacramento hearing on conditions at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville is behind us now.

Six U.S. nuclear bombs went joy-riding across the Midwest last week. The advanced cruise missiles, each packing 10 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb and each marked with bright red symbols, were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52 bomber and flown from North Dakota to Louisiana.

Dear editor,I have been a resident of Napa for almost 20 years and one of the many things that I love about the charm of this city is that most of it is kept very clean and well-landscaped.

Dear editor,Few times you hear of a good “feel good” story, so I thought I would share mine. I am a teacher at Pueblo Vista Elementary School, which is a Title 1 school, in the traditional program.

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