Each holiday season, people start to think of ways they can offer material goods or some of their own time to help out others in this community.

FRESNO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that he would call lawmakers back to the Capitol for a third special session in two months to try to close the state’s growing budget deficit.

He was many things — inspiration to a generation of investigative journalists, Judas Iscariot of the Nixon cabal, a shadowy figure whose very vagueness encapsulated an unsettling, confusing era.

It looks good. It hosts public art that pays tribute to Napa history. It even has a big clock that tells the time. And if that weren’t enough, it parks cars, too.

As the California Legislature stumbles through the budget process, the assemblywoman representing Napa County is seeking federal assistance for California’s massive — and growing — deficit.

A judge in Santa Rosa has granted Copia’s request to pay workers at the bankrupt center for food, wine and the arts, which shut its doors last month after seven years of operation on the edge of downtown Napa.

Napans gave enough clothing, non-perishable food items and letters of support to create 434 care packages this holiday season for soldiers serving in the Middle East.

Three people were injured Friday in a crash on the Silverado Trail in Rutherford, the California Highway Patrol reported Friday.

Forty solar panels were stolen from the city of Napa’s water treatment plant at Lake Hennessey, the Napa County Sheriff’s Department reported Friday.

Shontaine Brayton had just gotten back on her feet after a breakup left her homeless, when another disaster forced her and her daughters out of their new home a week before Christmas.

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