Napa News

The best cookbooks of 2013? Make that the best cookbooks by Los Angeles-area authors.

Best new restaurant? Chef of the year? Cherry-picking the best of the best of Orange County's food scene and settling on a solitary chef of the year, one overall restaurant of the year, one preeminent pastry chef, the single most impressive newcomer, plus one legendary icon, and a beverage program that stood out among all the others is a daunting ... (more)

In a Monday memo to staff, Eller wrote he'd accepted a position as president of Adventist Health's Northern California Network, which includes four acute-care hospitals and a behavioral health hospital serving Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake, Napa and Solano counties.

From Oct. 1 through Nov. 30, just more than 5,200 individuals in Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties enrolled for health plans through the exchange established under the federal Affordable Care Act, according to Covered California and the California Department of Health Care Services.

The California Department of Transportation will implement ongoing paving work as part of the Highway 12 Jameson Canyon widening project in Napa and Solano Counties.

A Willits man reported missing Saturday was seen attending church on the coast the next day, the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office reported.

Valerie Phillips found an elusive burrowing owl on a hill in Suisun Marsh, definitely a victory for this group of four bird-watchers.

A 21-year-old Napa man was arrested at 5 p.m. Saturday on suspicion of willful cruelty to a child, battery and causing injury to a child.

A man accused of murder in the death of his 4-year-old nephew has been found incompetent to stand trial and was placed in Napa State Hospital.

Napa County Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk John Tuteur will circulate petitions throughout the county beginning Saturday, Dec. 28 to gather signatures from Napa County voters for a place on the June 3, 2014 Primary Election ballot.

"Just to clarify: The funds are not for a new jail," she said. "The funds are to build a facility that will house a program that is an alternative to jail.

Ashley Machen, Owner and Travel Specialist at Treasure Travel , is launching the first in a series of unique wine & spirits tours called "Adventures by the Glass".

According to Andrew Killeen, Chair of the Volunteer Relations Committee, more than 750 volunteers filled 2700 slots during 600 shifts at 14 sites including building two new homes, operating the ReStore, and helping in the office.

Bruce Cakebread, president and COO of Napa Valley winery Cakebread Cellars, heads to a vineyard shrouded in fog during the wine harvest season in Rutherford, California.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued the thirteenth Spare the Air alert of the season, banning wood burning on Monday Dec. 16th for the ninth day in a row.

A man who was stopped Saturday night during a Napa Anti-DUI task patrol allegedly was carrying a handgun and was found to be a registered sex offender.

A California Board of State and Community Corrections executive steering committee will recommend that Tehama County get less than a third of the $20 million it had asked for to fund a jail expansion and build a new Probation Department Day Reporting Center.

Many of you had a favorite subject in school. Many studies have shown that what you like is what you're good at.

Resisting arrest in a 7-11 parking lot is nothing new, unless the perp is a rare black swan.

Sonoma police are close to identifying the two suspects who broke into Friedman's Home Improvement at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday and sped away in a U-Haul truck partially filled with stolen tools.