St. Helena Mayor Del Britton's ballot initiative creating a new water policy won't make it onto the February ballot due to a technicality, but Britton hopes the signatures he collected will demonstrate enough support for the City Council to adopt the restrictive water-use policy.

Seven years into California statehood, Protestant settlers hungry for worship often had to do without a preacher, unless they could travel to a tent meeting in town.

Direct mail advertisers work tirelessly to find ways to keep you from throwing their pitches in the trash, but the Napa County District Attorney's office is charging that one Central Valley mortgage broker has gone too far.

Today's parishioners at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church were not around when the church first opened its doors 149 years ago. But as the church begins to celebrate its 150-year anniversary with a yearlong jubilee, several long-time churchgoers are reflecting on the decades they've been a part of St. John's.

A Fairfield man lost his life in a motorcycle accident Sunday afternoon at Lake Berryessa.