OK, so President Bush is due here Thursday late afternoon/early evening for a Republican fundraiser at a private Upvalley residence.

Downtown Napa will be putting on the ritz.

White House officials announced Wednesday that President George W. Bush will spend about two hours in Napa County early Thursday night for a private fundraiser that so far has raised about $850,000 for the Republican National Committee.

President George W. Bush’s scheduled Napa County fundraiser has raised roughly $850,000 for the Republican National Committee, according to a source involved with the event.

SAN FRANCISCO — Fire crews conducted more controlled burns Wednesday, trying to block the spread of a wildfire that already has blackened 190 square miles of the Los Padres National Forest in the hills of the central California coast.

President George W. Bush’s expected arrival in the Napa Valley late tomorrow is sending local anti-war activists into high gear.

Amber Martin, daughter of longtime former City Councilman Harry Martin, announced Wednesday she intends to run for the position her father held for more than 12 years.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was scheduled to attend a fundraiser Wednesday in Oakville for the campaign to pass Prop. 11, the measure to change the way legislative district boundaries are drawn in California, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Napa Police officers attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Wednesday afternoon found themselves in a foot pursuit after the suspect bolted from a west Napa residence.

Napa Police are doing their part this Friday to get drunk drivers off the road. They will be conducting DUI saturation patrols within the city limits.

Company’s coming.

SACRAMENTO — An Air National Guard crew lounges in the shadow of a hulking C-130, waiting for another call to attack another California wildfire with slurry.

SAN FRANCISCO — President Bush was set to visit Redding later today to get a first-hand look at the wildfires that have ravaged hundreds of square miles and strained the state’s firefighting resources.

CHICO, Calif. — Arson investigators say a wildfire that destroyed more than 80 homes in and around the town of Paradise last month was intentionally set.

A Napa couple suffered major injuries Thursday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash at the entrance to River Rock Casino in Geyserville.             

As the presidential motorcade snaked its way down Highway 29 late Thursday, protesters kicked off an anti-war demonstration at the intersection of highways 29 and 221. Taking advantage of a bustling audience in the form of rush-hour traffic, members of a local anti-war group — United Napans Concerned Over the Iraq Lunacy — drove dozens of white crosses into the parched hillside.

Jeanette Pometta had a front-row seat for the presidential motorcade. Her front yard faces Oakville Grade.

Few Napans got to see President George W. Bush on Thursday. Gary Hall shook his hand.