Napa News

Designating a designated driver can take a lot of fun out of wine tasting, when one person in your merry group must refrain from even the smallest sip.

Over the past month, Chico State students have put on a couple of campus demonstrations to highlight an advisory measure on the Associated Students ballot asking the University Foundation to divest from the fossil-fuel industry.

Net income after taxes was $275,000, a decline from that which was earned in the first quarter of 2013.

Winesong 2014 announces honorary auction chairs, Joseph F. Harbison, III and Patricia A. Harbison, to lead a stellar cast of participants.

The office is in the Esquire office building at 1215 K St. and managed by Aaron Meilich , who previously was with Golden Pacific Bank .

World's Biggest Comedy Duo : The improv comedy group is taking over Chrome Lotus all night long for a recorded show of hilarious antics and shenanigans.

A former executive of a Napa-based wine company who was accused of embezzling nearly $900,000 has pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion.

The Sonoma Theatre Alliance, a consortium of North Bay based theater companies, announces its Festival of Theatre 2014 presented April to November, 2014 at the newly remodeled Rotary Stage at Andrews Hall, located at the Sonoma Community Center in downtown Sonoma, CA.

Max Villalobos, who served for more than three years as the Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano area manager and senior vice president, is moving to another job with the company in the San Diego area.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do, some say. Yet when it comes to Napa and the opening of Michael Dorf 's latest City Winery in the landmark Napa Valley Opera House , the founder and CEO would rather just step aside and let Napa vintners do what they do best.

Those who want to delve into our nation's best wines rightfully focus on Napa Valley cabernets.

On Wednesday, April 9, members of Florida's culinary elite gathered at the 50th floor rooftop lounge at the Viceroy Hotel in Miami for a special invite-only event organized by Diageo Chateau and Estate Wines of Napa, California.

As customers stood in line for fresh warm donuts on opening day of the new Krispy Kreme, the buzz around the city on Tuesday was that the Buckhorn Grill will be relocating from Napa to Vacaville.

Negotiate a project labor agreement for the train station project, the City Council directed the staff Tuesday after speakers praised such a pact as promoting local jobs and union labor while others criticized the agreement as un-American and anti-competition.

Southern California Restaurant Writers bestows 12 awards on Disneyland Resort restaurants, including a Five Stars award and a Golden Bacchus Wine Award to Carthay Circle Restaurant and Lounge.

Lulu McAllister's curiosity has led her to establish her own ice cream food cart in San Diego, work on a farm in Hawaii, and cover the music scene as a journalist in Austin.

Two hikers by the name of Steve Husong and Liz Alessio had an extremely close encounter with a mountain lion while walking through Skyline Wilderness Park, in Napa, Calif.

James Hinton of Napa, a former on-line Texas Hold 'Em poker player, is doing something no Republican has dared to this year: He's going all in and challenging incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson in the heavily Democratic 5th Congressional District.

Compost made from the waste of high end San Francisco restaurants is spread through the vineyards at the Bouchaine winery in Napa, Calif., Oct. 5, 2004, in this AP file photo.

Join Sonoma County Board of Education Trustee Gina Cuclis for a meet and greet with Bill Dodd, candidate for State Assembly, District 4.Bill is a Democrat from Napa County.