Here are the results of our recent user poll on the top stories of 2008.

He outlasted everyone else, picking the right team week after week to claim the title of Survivor Game Champion in this year's Can You Beat Randy? pro football pool at NapaValleyRegister.com.

The former Napa resident involved in a Bay Area Rapid Transit shooting on New Year’s Day has resigned from his job as a BART transit officer.

A well-attended Yountville town council meeting Tuesday evening yielded a decision to put plans to remove a centuries-old oak on hold.

When an estimated 5 million people descend on Washington, D.C. for the presidential inauguration later this month, several brave Napans will fight the crowds and the cold for a chance to be firsthand witnesses to history.

Café Revolution, formerly The Smoking Cat, has closed, taking with it the dream of two young Napans.

After years of planning, a new hotel is about to open in the business park near the Napa County Airport.

A Napa man and woman landed in the county jail Tuesday accused of trying to make off with stolen merchandise from the Target Store in Bel-Aire Plaza, police said.

OAKLAND — Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums urged residents to remain calm after protests turned violent in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a BART transit officer who graduated from New Technology High School in Napa.

The Napa Valley Unified School District board of education will host the first of three budget study sessions today at 7 p.m. in the board room at the NVUSD district office at 2425 Jefferson St. The public is invited to provide input at the meetings, where the district will begin developing a budget plan for the 2009-2010 school year and plan for likely mid-year cuts to the current budget. Upcoming meetings will be held on either Jan. 20 or Jan. 22 and on Feb. 10. For more information, visit www.nvusd.k12.ca.us or call the district office at 253-3511.