• The County Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a hearing on the County’s Housing Element at 10 a.m. today at the Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1195 Third St. in Napa.

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

Differing accounts over who killed Ricardo Gonzalez surfaced in Napa County Superior Court Wednesday, as the girlfriend of accused shooter Stephen Barrios took the stand.

A decade ago, 5-year-old Cristina Avina was sitting in Ana Canales’ kindergarten room at St. Helena Primary School, hard at work on a self-portrait of the grownup she hoped to become.

Napa County is heading up a search to replace longtime county counsel Robert Westmeyer, who reportedly plans to retire within the next two years, according to the Napa County civil grand jury.

Vickie Kennedy wants hotel employees to relax: Serving visually-impaired guests just takes a little forethought.

The City Council awarded a $112,494 contract Tuesday to replace a restroom near the 16th tee at the Napa Golf Course at Kennedy Park.

Posters promoting events and businesses will begin appearing later this week in vacant storefronts in downtown Napa.

Napa council members are usually deferential to each other, but on Tuesday, Peter Mott and Juliana Inman went head-to-head for a committee appointment.

Napa Public Access Cable Television, operators of Channels 27 and 28, will get substantially more money in future years to pay for equipment upgrades.

The hiring of a new St. Helena school district superintendent has not only angered many community members, it has made the St. Helena Star repeatedly file public records requests to make the school district provide public information.

Shots were reported fired this afternoon into a house on the 2000 block of Adrian Street, south of Lincoln Avenue.

Mendocino County sheriff’s deputies arrested a suspect Wednesday in a string of five area bank robberies, including a March heist at a US Bank in Napa.

Three young men will be forced to answer for the shooting death of 19-year-old Ricardo Gonzalez in a 2007 gang fight on Laurel Street in west Napa.

Tough economic times are hitting the healthcare industry, as the St. Helena Star is reporting today that St. Helena Hopspital is cutting back on staff.

Work is finishing up so the new Calistoga Community Pool can have its opening at the time Calistoga schoolchildren finish up their last day of school.

The failure Tuesday of Propositions 1A-1E places the city of American Canyon in the position of knowing the state may take up to $800,000 to try and help deal with the state's multi-billion dollar deficit.

OK, so voters decided to send a message to California Legislators by rejecting propositions 1A through 1E, and also send a message by passing the mostly symbolic Proposition 1F.

OAKLAND — The partner of the officer charged in an Oakland train station death said Wednesday the shooting happened during a chaotic scene where bystanders were yelling and one threw a cell phone at him.

A front page story headline in Wednesday’s Register misstated the type of court hearing going on for three murder defendants. It was a preliminary hearing.

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