What to look for in 2009

I’ve noticed hundreds of small plastic tubes on the east bank of the Napa River, near the Wine Train commissary. What are they?

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

One of Napa’s worst major roads will get a total makeover, complete with sidewalks, later this year.

SAN FRANCISCO — Widely aired video shows a BART police officer who grew up in Napa fatally shooting an unarmed black man lying face down on an Oakland train platform in the third hour of the New Year.

OAKLAND — A former transit police officer has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed and allegedly restrained black man in an extraordinary case that has outraged residents and community leaders and set off violent protests.

Local school officials are bracing themselves for the impact of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed mid-year cuts to education.

As Congress continues to work on an economic stimulus package to be rolled out when the nation welcomes a new president next week, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, is leading a call to ensure that rural communities are not left out.

Is the end near for pinot noir in Carneros?

Two Napa teens found their Sunday excursion cut short when police stopped the SUV they were driving in Sonoma.

A fight in the parking lot of the Super Wal-Mart Store in American Canyon on Monday night resulted in an arrest.

A Napa man, now in custody on suspicion of domestic violence, held more than an dozen law enforcement officers at bay for an hour and half as they tried to talk him out of a house on Moon Mountain Road in Sonoma County on Sunday afternoon.

An alert off-duty St. Helena police dispatcher helped police nail a man whom police say tried to make off with two baskets full of stolen groceries.

Because of the state budget crisis, state employees are expected to be take unpaid leave the first and third Fridays of each month, but this won’t work for Napa Valley Exposition, local officials said.

This year’s Napa Town and Country Fair will run Aug. 12-16, with the theme: “Farm Fresh Fun ... We Deliver.”

A home on Silverado Trail went up in flames Wednesday morning, closing the Trail for about two-and-a-half hours.

More information on BART officer Johannes Mehserle from Napa and the New Years Day shooting death of Oscar Grant at an Oakland BART station will be part of three press conferences throughout the day today.

The ex-BART officer charged with murder of a BART passenger New Years Day in Oakland appears in court Wednesday morning. Johannes Mehserle grew up in Napa.

Napa Valley Unified School District leaders will host a public hearing Thursday to discuss the possibility of ramping up high school graduation requirements.

Residents of a southeast Napa neighborhood were evacuated from their homes Wednesday evening after the parents of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle found two unidentified packages on their front porch.

BART officer Johannes Mehserle, a 2000 graduate of New Technology High School in Napa and a 2006 graduate of the Napa Valley College Police Academy, was arrested Tuesday night in Nevada on a murder charge in connection with a New Years Day shooting at an Oakland BART station.

Hundreds of protestors took to the streets of Oakland Wednesday Jan. 7 to condemn the shooting of an unarmed man by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer who graduated from New Technology High School in Napa.  That officer resigned his position on Wednesday. 

Bay Area Rapid Transit officials say they've completed their preliminary investigation of the New Year's Day fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a BART  police officer who grew up in Napa. (Jan. 12)

The family of an unarmed man who was fatally shot by a BART police officer who grew up in Napa is pleaded for peace one day after rioters damaged hundreds of businesses in Oakland. (Jan. 8)

Napa Valley Unified School District will host a public hearing Thursday to discuss the possibility of ramping up high school graduation requirements.