Here comes the annual list of things you resolve to accomplish, the goals, the items that will make you feel better about yourself, the gotta-do's that always seem to slip away.

Few individuals personify a place in the eyes of the world as much as Robert Gerald Mondavi personified the Napa Valley.

In the heady days of the dot-com boom, vintner Robert Mondavi spearheaded the creation of a Napa museum and event center to celebrate wine, food and the good life.

Voters in American Canyon in 2008 overwhelmingly supported their former fire chief in his bid to represent the southern part of the county on the Napa County Board of Supervisors.

Among all the spectacle and rivalry of the XXIX Olympic games in Beijing, Napa BMX cyclist Donny Robinson pedaled his way to Olympic glory and local history in 2008.

Developers of the proposed mixed-use project at Napa Pipe managed to survive a number of attacks this year — first defeating an initiative aimed at blocking the development, and then avoiding a potentially complicating agreement between the city and county of Napa.

A three-alarm fire broke out this morning at 1101 Westview Drive, near Scenic Drive in the Browns Valley negighborhood of Napa.

All right, here’s our year-end challenge for you.