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?

Using federal grants, Napa will contract for $193,448 worth of sidewalk and curb repairs in Los Robles subdivision in south Napa.

Napa firefighters have one more tool to help fight fires and saves lives, thanks to the efforts of a group of women who are very close to them.

The Napa Whole Foods Market received a B in its most recent county food facility inspection, making a swift recovery from its first failing report.

The homicide trial gets under way today in the shooting death of a 62-year-old man at his north Napa apartment.

Accountability is not free, according to local educators.

Is Napa really the state’s hotbed of identity theft and fraud?

No Napa Valley agencies involved with the farmworker housing fiasco of 2006 are spared in a Napa County grand jury report issued Monday.

After months of discussion, the American Canyon City Council voted last week to turn its former police station into a senior and multi-use center.

NEW YORK  — A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down a state law requiring airlines to give food, water, clean toilets and fresh air to passengers stuck in delayed planes, saying the measure was well-intentioned but stepped on federal authority.

 A competency hearing is scheduled Wednesday for the Napa man accused of crashing into a teenage bicyclist earlier this month.

Across Napa, school Dumpsters are overflowing with desks, chairs and tables. In some, plastic chairs are stacked neatly, filling Dumpsters to the brim. In others, desks are thrown helter skelter, silver legs jutting out of the bins and into the air.

BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal judge Monday ordered John Patrick McGuire, who associated with the anti-government Freemen militants in the 1990s, to be immediately released from prison.

Trouble broke out at Napa State Hospital late Sunday night when George Aaron Carver, a 35-year-old patient, attacked another male patient at the facility.

Two minimum security inmates — one from Napa — are on the loose after escaping from a prison medical facility.

An employee at Silverado Plaza’s Jamba Juice store had a frightening surprise at closing time around 10 p.m. Sunday when an armed robber entered the Trancas Street business.

The trial of a young Napa man accused of shooting an elderly male acquaintance in 2007 got under way Monday with opening statements from defense attorney Jess Raphael and Napa County Deputy District Attorney Gary Van Camp.

SACRAMENTO — Kate Hanni’s vacation was intended to be a relaxing trip that would give her family a chance to bond and help her recover from an assault she suffered while working as a real estate agent.

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