An untralight aircraft crashed just after noon in Lake Berryessa, off Knoxville Berryessa Road, near the Putah Creek Resort.

Five armed police officers searched the Napa County Office of Education last week, seizing files, a fax machine and the computer of Associate Superintendent of Instructional Services Tony Apolloni.

A 66-year tradition of steel fabrication on the Napa River is coming to an end with Trans Bay Steel Corp.’s move from the former Napa Pipe property to an industrial park in Fairfield.

The Inn at Town Center has barely broken ground and it’s already gotten a makeover.

“What percentage of the Earth is covered in water?” a woman in Calistoga asked Wednesday as she tossed a blue globe into the air.

LOS ANGELES — Losses from the devastating Southern California wildfires are pegged at $1 billion in San Diego County alone, and the tally will only go higher as other areas add up the costs to rebuild.

The preliminary hearing for Modesto resident Willis Creech, 31, was continued from Wednesday to Nov. 16. Creech is charged with five counts of attempted murder after police say he fired a shotgun into a Dry Creek Road home on Sept. 15. Although Creech’s wife, two children and two other people were in the home at the time of the shooting, nobody was hurt.

Napa fire investigators suspect three young males, maybe teenagers, may have started a series of small fires in the downtown area early Wednesday morning.

Do you have relatives or friends who have been intimately affected by the raging fires in Southern California? The fires have devastated many residential areas and hundreds of thousands have been forced to evacuate. If the people you’re close to have experienced tales of heartbreak — or heroism, the Register wants to hear about them. Contact Register staff writer Natalie Hoffman at 256-2260 or nhoffman @ napanews.com

Display time for a quilt being shown at Justin-Siena High School to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has been extended. The quilt — crafted by the grandmother of a local leukemia survivor, Natalie Schiefferly — will remain at the school through Oct. 31. Raffle tickets for the quilt are $5 and are available at Paul Hanson Partners, 1827 Clay St., 252-5900 and at Justin-Siena High School./Register

The Napa chapter of the American Red Cross has sent 10 local volunteers to San Diego County to assist in helping the more than 500,000 victims who have been evacuated because of the multiple wildfires burning in the southern part of the state.