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.

In the Register’s “Going Green” supplement earlier this year, I noticed that customers for Upper Valley Disposal & Recycling Service can put plastic bags in the recycle cart. However, an article from Napa Recycling & Waste Services says no plastic bags, please. Where can you recycle plastic bags?

With the first round of games done,two people in Hoops Challenge have established themselves in front of the pack.

The 12-year-old boy involved in a car versus motorcycle accident early Friday morning on Silverado Trail has died.

Police are looking for a man who walked into a 7-Eleven armed with a rifle and left with a fistful of cash.

Napa Valley Unified School District could fall $7 million short of completing projects approved by voters in 2002, despite capable fiscal management on the part of the district, according to a recent report from the Citizens’ Oversight Committee for Measures M and G.

With a $3.66 million payment from the flood control district, Napa now has a substantial down payment on a new parking garage near the Cinedome theater.

Alan Wastell, owner of Bookends Bookstore, remembers a time not so long ago when there were four bookstores within a few blocks of each other in downtown Napa.

Jack Gingles, who won a close contest to become mayor of Calistoga in 2006, has announced he is planning to run for the office again in November.

Local Realtors see some signs of a revived housing market as spring approaches, even as the numbers have been working against them in recent months.