Napavalleyregister.com publishes monthly statistics on arrests and convictions for driving under the influence, and so-called “wet reckless” convictions in Napa County.

Janice Byrd mans the Picture Palace booth at the Napa Town & Country Fair, where dart-wielding contestants test their skills by aiming for balloons lining the booth’s black backdrop.

Napa garbage rates are going up 3.45 percent Sept. 1 to cover higher fuel and wage costs, as well as an additional code enforcement officer.

Beijing may have the Summer Olympics, but the Napa Town and Country Fair has racing pigs.

Napa will buy the half-acre lot at Browns Valley Road and Laurel Street for a new west side fire station.

Authorities have confirmed the body found in the wake of a July 25 vehicle fire is that of long-time Napa school teacher and coach James Grobl.

Feeling the pinch of financial challenges, Queen of the Valley Medical Center is eliminating 100 positions — 81 of which are filled.

SAN FRANCISCO — Fire raging through rugged, dense terrain is complicating rescue crews’ efforts to recover victims and evidence from the remote part of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest where a firefighting helicopter crashed. As many as nine people were presumed dead.

A single-vehicle crash caused the closure of a portion of Salvador Avenue between Highway 29 and Big Ranch Road in Napa shortly before 1 p.m.

With more than a dozen Grammy Awards to its credit, Manhattan Transfer delighted an opening day throng at the Napa Town & Country Fair Wednesday night.

The American Canyon City Council Tuesday voted to approve new city boundaries, cementing a wide-ranging deal with Napa County that settles several land use and resource issues.

Faced with having to fend off a November ballot challenge sponsored by a labor union, a Sacramento developer has pulled the plug on the proposed Kimpton Hotel on Solano Avenue.

On Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that a fiscal emergency prompted him to lay off some 22,000 part-time and temporary workers.

Are you seeing graffiti around the area where you live, work, go for a walk, take a drive or more?

County Supervisors decided Tuesday to drop plans for a November ballot initiative for a half-cent sales tax dedicated to Napa County road upgrades, citing the poor economic climate in California and the nation.