BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California’s central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening more than 4,500 homes hundreds of miles apart.

DId you check out Silverado's pre-Fourth fireworks show?

Napa city officials this week sent out warning shots to owners of older brick buildings that they are growing impatient with failures to respond to a two-year-old law requiring earthquake safety improvements in the structures.

Twenty miles west of the west coast of the United States lies a string of pearls, a Southern California island chain familiar yet in some ways wildly different from the mainland.

Long-time Napa County sheriff’s peace officer Jean Donaldson is moving up the ranks.

A recent 197-page study of Napa County’s hospitality and tourism industry shows it’s not all minimum wage and dead-end jobs.

Napa’s Independence Day Celebration may have been fun and games for most, but Ray-Ray the Chihuahua/terrier mix from the Napa County Animal Shelter had a job to do: Find a new family.