The Napa County Planning Commission is set to vote on the controversial Lake Luciana golf course Wednesday during a jam-packed meeting that will also include presentations on Napa Pipe and the county’s long-term housing strategy.

SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers spent the President’s Day holiday as they had Valentine’s Day, locked in a frustrating search for one more vote to end the state’s budget impasse.

Here are key provisions of the proposal to close California’s $42 billion budget deficit through June 2010:

SACRAMENTO  — With budget negotiations stalled, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will begin the process of laying off thousands of state workers.

SACRAMENTO — California’s two-thirds requirement to pass budgets and tax increases makes every vote count.

Paul White inspects wine packaging for an hourly wage, but he doesn’t consider it work. And his colleagues are not just employees of a Napa company — they are all part of one happy family, he said.

Everyone who complained there was not enough rain this winter, go ahead and stand up at your workstations and wave your arms in the air.

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, was re-appointed as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence.

SACRAMENTO  — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration has begun the process of laying off thousands of state workers, but there’s a big loophole.

Napa's creeks were running higher than normal, but not up to flood stages due to three days of mostly constant rains.

The man charged with the stabbing death of a security officer at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville almost six years ago has pleaded not guilty.

Napa County's Kristen McNamara is one of American Idol's 36 semifinalists, but she is not scheduled to perform as part of this week's show on Fox television.

COTATI  — The son of Merced County’s district attorney is under arrest on suspicion of manslaughter and drunk driving after a crash killed a 22-year-old Calistoga High School graduate.

Here is a video from Fox television with Napa County's Kristen McNamara, one of the 36 semifinalists in Season 8 of American Idol.