Are you interested in meeting our local leaders, learning about Napa government and improving the administration of county business? If so, the Napa County Superior Court seeks your application to serve on the 2009-2010 grand jury.

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

More than a dozen teens caused a ruckus — in a good way — at last week’s Calistoga City Council meeting, as they became the inaugural crew of lifeguards to serve at the Calistoga Community Pool.

LOS ANGELES  — Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress and former Napa County resident Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago.

A 43-year-old Fairfield man was airlifted to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with major injuries Monday after a driver from Napa slammed into his car on Highway 29.

Fire tore through an 800-square-foot storage building in Napa Sunday night, causing up to $15,000 worth of damage.

A Fairfield man was arrested in American Canyon Sunday night on suspicion of drug possession.

A Pope Valley man is in the hospital after his ATV turned over with him on top.

The Napa County Sheriffs Department is on the lookout for a big piece of farming equipment stolen from a vineyard off Yount Mill Road.

A head-on collision at 10 p.m. Monday night seriously injured two local residents.

Yountville residents can now keep an eye on their local government from the comfort of their own homes.

Napa City-County Library administrators have some explaining to do about how efficiently the organization has been run and ways they could clean up its act. 

Dr. Richard Osborn, president of Pacific Union College, will leave his position on June 30 after eight years.

Three local schools won top state honors when the California Department of Education recently named them among this year’s California Distinguished Schools.

Prosecutors say a former Napa police dispatcher duped residents and coworkers into believing she had cancer and bilked them out of tens of thousands of dollars.

TRACY, Calif. — The woman suspected of killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu spent Easter Sunday in an observation cell where jail staff monitored her mental health, officials said.

Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford has stepped out against the controversial Angwin eco-village, announcing that he will join the local group Save Rural Angwin.

STOCKTON  — A Northern California woman kidnapped, raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in a pond just a few miles from her home, prosecutors alleged Tuesday.

A funnel cloud descended on Carneros Friday afternoon as the unsettled weather kept Napans dodging rain drops one minute and standing in the bright sunshine the next.