Napa News

A historic winery, a firefighters museum, an electric trolley train ride, and a periscope view of downtown Vallejo -- all these and more were included at the Conference of California Historical Societies Spring Symposium held this year in Napa and Solano counties.

It doesn't matter to Napa Mayor Jill Techel that this year's BottleRock music festival line-up announced Friday may be a notch below last year's ultra-high profile line-up.

Yes, there's liquid gold hidden among the vines, part of an olive oil boom in recent years.

The Western Railway Museum will offer a special series of rides on historic electric trains along its tracks in the Montezuma Hills area.

The Bayard Rustin LGBT Democratic Club of Solano and Napa Counties will host Democratic candidates for California Assembly District 4 at its general meeting, 7 p.m. Thursday, at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 101 West St., Vacaville.

M.Y. China in Rohnert Park will feature the famous Papa Doble as well as chicken feet on its happy hour menu.

Bicyclists like this one on Highway 29 in Yountville will soon have a safer, mostly parallel trail that they will share with pedestrians.

So the lineup for Bottle Rock Napa Valley came out today, and it's basically a list of all the 1990s bands you ever loved or once sang along to on the radio without knowing quite who they were.

Pastry chef Kathleen Kwan of 8 & 8 Baking Co. is now producing a cookie made with Rancho Gordo piloncillo, a pure, unprocessed sugar.

David Heitz stands in the Grignolino plantings at Heitz Cellar in St. Helena, Calif., on Tuesday, March 4, 2014.

Visitors hike Robert Louis Stevenson State Park in Calistoga. Stevenson spent two months in Wine Country in 1880.

Giancarlo Altamura makes drinks at his family's restaurant, Ciccio in Yountville.

Scott Ekstrom is executive chef at Fish Story, Michael Dellar's venture in Napa's 4-year-old Riverfront, a $75 million retail and residential development.

The moment many of you have been waiting for is now upon us. Latitude 38 has officially announced the music lineup for this year's BottleRock Napa Valley , and it is a doozy.

Hip-hop heavyweight OutKast, country star Eric Church and modern-rock legends The Cure will headline the 2014 BottleRock Napa Valley.

Bauer went on a wine country jaunt to Napa's AngA le in his update review this week .

Jeffry James Hill, the manager of the Hill Wine Co. in St Helena, is facing two counts of grand theft and a special allegation for allegedly stealing the grapes on 16 October and 21 October from vineyards owned by Del Dotto Napa Valley on Mount Howell and in Oakville, according to reports by the napavalleyregister.com.

Now the Napa nonprofit is hoping to launch a new multipurpose community arts center and Youth Academy.

While Mr. Bauer revisited Angele in Napa, the other restaurant review in today's Datebook took Nicholas Boer to a rather unique restaurant in the East Bay: Kanishka's , a Walnut Creek spot that is billed as a "neo-Indian gastropub."

For those seeking work in Napa - or those who are looking for a new job, or even a second job - here's a list of local job openings.