Aurora Castanon loved her frequent walks in Lakeview Park in the Alta Heights neighborhood of east Napa.

Local cities are searching near and far for water, hoping to cobble together a large enough supply for Napa Valley residents to survive a third dry year.

American Canyon is girding for water conservation measures.

Napa County Planning Commissioners delayed on Wednesday  their vote on the controversial Lake Luciana golf course per the developers’ request, rescheduling the vote for Feb. 18.

The American Canyon City Council on Tuesday moved toward taking land by eminent domain in order to build two water tanks near the future site of American Canyon High School.

The Napa Downtown Trolley is fighting for its life again.

SAN FRANCISCO — Home run king Barry Bonds pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he lied to a grand jury investigating steroid use in sports.

SACRAMENTO — State agencies were scrambling Thursday to implement the first employee furloughs in California history, ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to save money in the face of a massive budget crisis.

Napa County’s Kristin McNamara has “made it to Hollywood,” as part of the hit TV series American Idol.

The Bay Area Air District has issued a Winter Spare the Air Alert -- banning wood burning both indoors and outdoors -- through noon Thursday.

 Prosecutors in Barry Bonds’ trial intend to introduce notes seized from Greg Anderson’s house and a clubhouse tape recording of the personal trainer discussing injections in an effort to get around his likely refusal to testify against the home-run king.