Channel Properties, one of downtown Napa’s major developers, will have seven months to find a restaurant tenant for the landmark Borreo Building at Third and Soscol.

Four years of attending classes, doing homework and studying for tests came to a jubilant end Sunday morning for the 18 graduates of Pacific Union College Preparatory School. Dozens of friends, family members and school staff gathered at PUC’s Dauphinee Chapel to watch the young men and women of the closely knit class of 2008 graduate.

Big bottles of cult status wine, no-stone-left-unturned trips all over the world, lavish wine parties, automobiles filled with collectible wine and old-fashioned star power combined Saturday night to push Auction Napa Valley 2008 proceeds past the $10 million mark.

On June 7, seventy-five high school students seized a second chance and graduated to receiving their high school diplomas from Napa Valley Adult Education. Hundreds of proud parents and families filled the Napa High School auditorium, arms laden with flowers to present to deserving graduates.  

NEW YORK — A Chicago chef who credits his training at the French Laundry in Yountville — as well as the tongue cancer that nearly ended his life — was named the nation's top chef Sunday by the James Beard Foundation.

CHICAGO — The dining room at Alinea is a rare and special place where waiters in dark designer suits glide past tables, carrying trays laden with fantastical creations:

First Street on each side of the Napa River closes Tuesday for the next 14 months as crew work to replace the street's bridge over the river.

A 48-year-old man died Friday afternoon when his pickup crashed on Knoxville Road near the Lake County line, north of Lake Berryessa.

A three-vehicle crash Sunday afternoon in Napa County sent two men to the hospital with major injuries, the CHP said.

Auction Napa Valley, one of the Wine Country's biggest annual events, lived up to that title again this year. Here is a recap of the articles from the week so far.

A Sunday night house fire in Napa sent one man to the hospital and caused $140,000 in damage to the structure.