Months before young people began to follow Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, three college friends from Texas began a year-long journey to recapture the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to make a difference in the world.

Calistoga city officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to turn what was long ago a local hospital into the latest resort catering to high-end vacationers.

Hollywood has its Oscars, the music industry has the Grammys and on Saturday afternoon Napa’s CyberMill Technology Center held its own prestigious awards ceremony — the Fifth Annual MILLies.

A Napa Police Department checkpoint yielded three DUI arrests Saturday evening.

Jelly rolls and layer cakes, fat quarters and charms. Dot Varland keeps them tucked away in dresser drawers.

The focus of the contest is ... Can You Beat Randy? ... and with two games left in Week No. 1, 104 of you are beating Register.com Sports Editor Randy Johnson in the weekly napavalleyregister.com NFL Challenge Pro Football pool.

The man charged with critically injuring a Napa teen in a hit-and-run crash has been deemed by a Napa County judge to be not guilty by reason of insanity.

During the next 24 months, pharmaceutical giant Mylan Inc., the parent company of Dey LP will phase out operations and close its doors in Napa.

Having Whiskey on the job proved a big plus for American Canyon police when they stopped a car on Flosden Road early Sunday morning for expired registration tags and no front license plate.

As a whole, Napa Valley Unified School District is improving, but it is still on the equivalent of probation under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Highway 12 will have night lane closures this week — 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. ending Friday — in the area of highway construction near the intersection of Red Top Road and Highway 12 in Solano County.

Did the college and pro football season keep you away from our Web site this weekend? Well, if that's the case, here's a few of the top articles from the weekend to help you catch up on what's taking place in the Napa Valley.

REDDING, Calif. — Firefighters are trying to control two blazes threatening homes in rural areas of far Northern California.