Napa News

Founded in 2006, the Festival del Sole is one of Napa's defining cultural and musical celebrations.

NAPA, CA, July 8, 2014 According to the Napa Valley Grapegrowers veraison, an annual benchmark in the winegrape growing season is underway, occurring 5-10 days earlier than usual.

The Butts Fire that burned 4,300 acres in Napa and Lake counties is 95 percent contained as of this morning, a Cal Fire spokeswoman said.

Bay Area water quality control regulators are prepared to impose new standards for hundreds of vineyard operators in Napa and Sonoma County.

Nathan Davis, a certified Sommelier from the Court of Master Sommeliers, joins Silverado Resort and Spa as Resort Manager.

Julie Maurer joins Silverado as VP of Marketing, a new position for the resort. Previously she held numerous positions at some of the best resorts in Lake Tahoe including VP of Marketing and Sales at Squaw Valley & Alpine Meadows, and Northstar-at-Tahoe.

Welcome to Lifers , a feature in which Eater interviews the men and women who have worked in the restaurant and bar industry for the better part of their lives, sharing their stories and more.

'Becky Shaw' runs ThursdaySunday through July 13 at 6th Street Playhouse and July 1827 at the Napa Valley Playhouse .

The best way to get a handle on the link between the place where wine grapes are grown and the nature of the wine they yield is to join a winemaker in the vineyard.

On a recent trip to the stunning Monterey County coast, we met a friend for dinner at Passionfish, a charming restaurant that serves only Marine Stewardship Council certified fish and has the quirkiest and most reasonably priced wine list of any establishment I know.

Aji Japanese Bistro in El Dorado Hills offers 17 wines and champagne by the glass from Amador, Napa, and Washington State on Tuesday night, January 21, 2014.

Info provided by the Napa Police Department: Napa County Law Enforcement Officers were out during the Fourth of July Holiday weekend looking for DUI drivers.

The so-called Petaluma Gap, though not an official site on the American Viticultural Areas map, has been recognized for years as a wine-growing region deserving of respect.

Construction on a long-anticipated five-mile pipeline designed to high-quality recycled irrigation water to the Milliken-Sarco-Tulocay, or MST, area east of Napa is scheduled to begin at the end of July.

The Raiders have officially released the schedule for their 2014 training camp in Napa California.

Sonoma is a big place with widely varying terrain that stretches from the coast all the way east to Napa county line.

A rural fire in Northern California raged throughout the night, challenging firefighters Sunday with rising temperatures and the threat of shifting winds, officials said.

From the Napa County "Avoid the 9" DUI Task Force: DUI Roving Saturation Patrols will be assigned by police within the City of Napa today -- Saturday -- and the California Highway Patrol Maximum Enforcement Period is adding officers to the region's freeways and unincorporated roads through midnight Sunday.

A vegetation fire that started on Friday night in parts of Solano County is burning through 1,500 acres and 25 percent contained as of 11:45 a.m. this morning, Cal Fire officials said.

A fire in eastern Yolo County that sparked Friday night has grown to more than 1,500 acres, authorities said.