Did the gravy turn out all lumpy, or maybe it spilled all over Uncle Louie? Did the dog grab the turkey leg and hide under the dinner table with it, growling at anyone who walked by?

The suspense is over in Calistoga and St. Helena, where a final tally from the Nov. 4  election revealed that two apparent losers for city council seats were winners after all.

Seven months after a controversial audit of services at the California Veterans Home at Yountville and a handful of special legislative efforts to increase staffing at the home, a new high-level administrator has come on board to oversee medical care.

Pitching in — Napa High School students Alba Ruiz, left, and Maria Bernardino, roll a barrel of collected food toward the pickup area at Napa High on Tuesday morning. Students teamed with the Interact Club, NHS Leadership and Napa Sunrise Rotary to collect food for the Napa Valley Food Bank. Last year nearly 8,000 pounds of food was collected and organizer Cathy Dickey is hoping to break that record and collect 10,000 pounds. This is the fourteenth year of the event.

The potential sale of Copia’s property downtown may cause Napa’s Farmers Market to move from its longtime home on First Street.

Sacramento County sheriff’s investigators are still looking for a missing Napa man who was last seen at the Sacramento International Airport.

Tuesday kicks off a new NapaValleyRegister.com feature called Napa Chefs Online with L. Pierce Carson.

Nearly two months after the Napa Valley Register first requested release of an American Canyon report on bonus payments to firefighters — and four weeks after the city agreed to release it — the American Canyon City Council has not made public the report.

SAN FRANCISCO — California’s highest court has agreed to hear legal challenges to the state’s new same-sex marriage ban, but is refusing to allow gay couples to resume marrying until it rules on the measure’s validity.

The Vintage High School teacher accused of child molestation was arraigned in Sonoma County court on Tuesday.

A Calistoga man ended up in the Napa County jail on Monday night after his car crashed into a motorcycle, injuring the driver and leaving the scene of the accident, police said.

A Vintage High School math teacher has been arrested and charged with child molestation.

The final count of Napa County ballots has changed the preliminary election night result in both the St. Helena and Calistoga city council races.