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.