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

Napa ended its fiscal year on June 30 in good shape, but trouble looms, city Finance Director Carole Wilson told the Napa City Council this week.

The American Canyon Fire District has rejected a Napa Valley Register demand that the agency release to the public a legal report about the payment of questionable bonuses to firefighters. As a result, the newspaper’s attorney has sent a second demand letter requesting the release of the report by Oct. 27.

Environmental concerns are making it less likely that even a portion of Napa Creek flood protection could start construction next summer.

An advocacy group for those who have been sexually abused by priests is still calling for Monsignor John Brenkle to be removed from his position as head of a sex abuse review panel — even though the altar boy who was the subject of a false accusation against Brenkle is asking them to leave Brenkle alone.

American Canyon seniors may get a place of their own at the city’s old police station — if the community manages to raise $1.5 million, the American Canyon City Council decided Tuesday.

The parking lot at Clinic Ole is normally a place where patients park, but on Sunday afternoon it turned into something more.

CalFire crews gained the upper hand Sunday morning on a fire that scorched 300 or more acres of brush in the hills east of St. Helena. The fire began on Friday afternoon when a truck left the roadway and struck a rock, causing a spark to ignite the brush.

CalFire crews have the upper hand on a fire that has scorched 300 or more acres of brush in the hills east of St. Helena that began on Friday afternoon. Firefighters gained full containment of the Deer Fire, named because the fire originated along a stretch of Deer Park Road, at 6 a.m., Sunday morning.

About 100 Napa County-based Barack Obama supporters showed up Monday afternoon on the front steps of the Napa Valley Register building in downtown Napa to protest the newspaper's Sunday endorsement of John McCain for President.

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