The Napa Valley Register and napavalleyregister.com publishes monthly statistics on arrests and convictions for driving under the influence — and so-called “wet reckless” convictions — in Napa County.

An elderly Napa woman was treated for smoke inhalation when a small portion of her home caught fire on Friday.

Court proceedings for the St. Helena man accused of crashing into a young Napa bicyclist earlier this week have been suspended.

The VINE bus system is getting a $300,000 hybrid bus, paid for from congestion relief bonds approved by state voters in November 2006.

Spring forward — fall behind on sleep.

The rich won’t have to worry about state budget cuts, but the poor will.

The Justin-Siena baseball team received a break a couple of days early.

FOLSOM — The third time was the charm for the St. Patrick/St. Vincent-Vallejo girls basketball team on Saturday night as it defeated Justin-Siena in overtime, 65-60, to capture the CIF Northern California Division IV Regional championship.

Weaving all over the road isn’t good. And it is even worse when you have illegal drugs lying next to you on the front seat.

Napa police are looking for the culprits who went on a vandalism spree between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

Daniel Douglas Martin was pulled over early Friday morning by an American Canyon police officer for driving a car with expired license plate tags, Sgt. Craig Nickles said.

Nicci Shores and Marcie Harris grew up riding their horses in American Canyon in the 1960s and 1970s; clomping along the wetlands, in the eucalyptus grove and on hills American Canyon has always been horse friendly, Shores said. But some of those hills and open spaces have become residential subdivisions, whittling down the riding space in town.

Krystal Dominguez gets a hand up from classmate Jazmine Costella, as she tries to remove a hot air balloon from a tree during a physical science class project at Valley Oak High School. Students in Michelle McMaster’s class were learning about air displacement and hot and cold molecules, when this balloon went higher than expected.

Napa will be flushing water lines in east Napa next week as part of its annual maintenance program.