American Canyon News

The other day, a couple very near and dear to us took our recommendation and spent the night at the new-ish, LEED-certified Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa in American Canyon, Calif.

Every couple of years I feel that siren call to go up and spend some time in Napa Valley.

Napa and Solano Counties DUI Campaign Task Forces will be out the Fourth of July weekend to combat driving under the influence.

A downed power line at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo appears to have ignited a nine-alarm grass fire that burned for more than six hours Friday night and this morning, a Vallejo assistant fire chief said.

Alameda: Music, games, and clowns starting at 10 am, with fireworks at 9:30 pm. $5-$20. USS Hornet Museum, Pier 3, Alameda Point.

It's not often that you see dogs leaping 8-foot-tall walls, gamboling over towers of stacked metal barrels or scrambling across slatted gangplanks resembling a catwalk.

American Canyon should strive to be more transparent in conducting the public's business and also consider hiring a city attorney, a Napa County grand jury recommends.

A proposal to place two ballot measures on November's ballot, including proposals to repeal binding arbitration and modernize a city tax, could cost the city about $375,000, county officials report.

One of three suspects arrested for the 2007 shooting death of teenager Luis Miranda in Maxwell Park has been convicted of second-degree murder.A Juan Carlos Perez, 25, of American Canyon, faces at least 15 years in prison, a sentence that could be increased based on gang allegations and the use of a gun.

The wine and construction industries are finding new ways to reuse and conserve water as constraints are put on the supply of water.

A grass fire that startred above a popular city park on Father's Day burned six acres before firefighters put it out, a fire department spokesman said.

Alcan Packaging Capsules of California has started Napa Valley production of aluminum screw caps for the wine industry.

This Chardonnay is located in American Canyon, just east of Highway 29. Vertical trellising, cane pruned, 5 1/2 x 9, Planted in 1997.

There are an additional 30 cities poised to take this same action in coming weeks with many more expected.

Direct-to-consumer wine fulfillment provider New Vine has started shipping again after having suspended that activity at the beginning of this month.

Nicholas Graves of Vallejo said he believes in a higher power, so, although he knows the risks, he's joining the military anyway.

Batting beach balls and bidding farewell, Vintage High School seniors graduated in glorious, laid-back style this week.

A undercover Internet sting operation led to the arrest Tuesday night of a Northern California man, who traveled to Visalia seeking sex with a teenage girl.

A Napa Valley man who traveled to Tulare County to meet a female juvenile he contacted on the Internet was arrested by Tulare County sheriff's deputies.

An American Canyon man was arrested near Visalia today on suspicion of arranging to have sex with a detective taking part in an undercover Internet investigation.