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.

Kyle Cuddy was still in elementary school when terror struck on Sept. 11, 2001.

Is America obsessed with beauty?

A 16-year-old boy found himself in juvenile hall facing a felony charge after police say he hit his younger brother during an argument.

A Fairfield parolee was involved in a traffic collision on Wednesday night on highways 121 and 29 in Napa, resulting in a woman being taken to the hospital.

A Napa woman reported a man she knew pushed her during an argument and took her cell phone, preventing her from calling 911, police said.

The city of Napa announced Thursday it had completed the purchase of the half-acre, $825,000 site for the future Browns Valley Fire Station. The fire department will be presenting a station development and staffing plan to the City Council before the end of 2008. A different site at the base of Westwood Hills Park that the city preferred earlier on turned out to have seismic issues. Register staff

After less than two years at the helm, Napa County Planning and Transportation Agency leader Jim Leddy is stepping down to take a job in Sonoma County government.

A monument to peace drew some 60 people to Rutherford’s Grgich Hills Estate Thursday afternoon, when a common goal united local teens with vintners, diplomats and the leader of an international humanitarian foundation.

A motorcyclist led a Napa police officer on a high-speed chase Wednesday before being arrested at a dead-end road on the outskirts of town.

SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area Rapid Transit officials are looking at charging more to use trains during peak hours to get riders to travel at other times.

(Editor's note: This article published Sept. 7 but never properly appeared on the Web site, so we republished the article now to get it in the archives)

Three Napa residents were given quite a scare late Thursday night but ended up unharmed when they were held at gunpoint by a man and woman who forced their way into a Cooper Court home.