Let the rumors rest: President George W. Bush will visit Napa next week, the White House confirmed on Friday.

An overturned dump truck closed Monticello Road, north of Vichy Avenue on Thursday morning.

The federal government won another legal fight this week in its bid to open up Lake Berryessa to more short-term visitors.

PARADISE, Calif. — One person was found dead inside a burned-out house Friday as firefighters raced to confine a wildfire that had roared back to life in the rural Sierra Nevada foothills, while the army of blazes that have charred California prompted President Bush to schedule a visit to the state and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to order 2,000 more National Guard troops to firefighting duty.

PARADISE, Calif. - Firefighters "turned the corner" Saturday on a wildfire that destroyed part of a town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, one of the hundreds of blazes that continue to char huge swaths of California.

Disregarding the old saw about not looking a gift horse in the mouth, the St. Helena City Council agreed on Tuesday that a full examination is in order before deciding whether to accept the Mennen Environmental Foundation’s offer to donate 23 acres of Sulphur Creek property to the city.

Firefighters, along with the CHP 30 helicopter, searched the Napa River on Wednesday night after a passing motorist reported a person may have jumped from the Maxwell Bridge.

Hoping to send a trend rippling throughout California’s Department of Mental Health, officials at Napa State Hospital pioneered a ban on tobacco products at the sprawling campus this week.

A woman reported to police that she was victim of robbery around 10:30 p.m., Thursday inNapa.

Investigators were looking for the man who robbed a business in the 600 block of Trancas Street on Friday evening.

Three vehicles caught fire early Saturday morning on the 1700 block of Silverado Trail, the Napa Fire Department reported Saturday. The three vehicles, parked under a carport of an apartment complex, were totaled.

Two men are suspected in the robbery Friday of the Target store at South Napa Market Place.

For the second time in five months, neighborhood objections to a three-story affordable housing project on Coombsville Road found a sympathetic ear at the city of Napa Planning Commission.