Volcano News

Above: Innkeeper Kelsey Mort, left, discusses strategy with local photo artist Laura Mah and Tracey Berkner, right, hotel owner, in the courtyard of the newly renovated Volcano Union Inn.

Pixie Woods throws open its rainbow gates to adults Friday evening for a night of noshing and wine tasting.

It's eleven o'clock on a rainy Saturday morning. What would usually be a sleepy St.

Getting excited for Thursday's Jimmy Buffett concert started when, ironically, I was in the dentist's chair.

When you're mega rich and believe that your Veyron and Phantom have lost their pizzazz, or that your soon-coming Aston Martin One-77 won't satisfy your desires, small California-based coach builder DiMora Motorcars may offer something that'll whet your ultra-luxury appetite.

Chris Richard, 18, works the rows at his family's Pleasants Valley Iris Farm outside Vacaville, home to about 60,000 iris plants.

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Nothing says "Hey, wake up! It's spring!" better than a field with a few hundred thousand blooming daffodils.

Amador Flower Farm and Nursery, home to more than 850 varieties of daylilies plus hundreds of unusual perennials, will host its 12th annual Spring Fling from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Sunday.

Focusing on Western travel - from Alaska to Mexico and the Rockies to Hawaii - this series features the best road trips, wildlife viewing, scenic vistas, historic towns, big city neighborhoods and more.

Palin fired all the pilots B: Volcano erupted near jet routes C: Enviros said engine noise stressed mating moose D: Geese resting on runways to dry feathers 3. Match the city with the cause: A: Napa B: San Francisco C: Berkeley D: Sacramento 1: Public garden to showcase nutrition and farming 2: Bee-friendly plantings in parks 3: A vote against ...

After several weeks of tremors and intermittent steaming, Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted late on Sunday with a burst of ash that rose more than nine miles into the air, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said.

British singer Natasha Bedingfield has gotten married in Malibu. People Magazine reports the pop songstress wed California businessman Matthew Robinson in a 30-minute outdoor ceremony overlooking the Pacific Ocean on Saturday.

Scientists searching for life on Mars should start digging under Olympus Mons . New research shows that liquid water probably once sloshed beneath the 15-mile-high volcano.

Winter safety will be the subject of a community forum at the Pine Grove Town Hall tomorrow evening.

Shackled hand and foot, two armed robbery suspects appeared at consecutive preliminary hearings Friday for three separate criminal cases, the most recent of which involved an alleged inside job at the Quiznos ...

In an effort to reduce overhead costs, the Amador Fire Safe Council has closed its office in Pine Grove and relocated to a private residence.

A bus stop on Camanche Parkway was the site of a tragic accident Wednesday morning, when a 7-year-old Valley Springs boy waiting to go to school was hit by a motorist and killed.

Mount Redoubt, a volcano 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, is rumbling and simmering, prompting geologists to warn that an eruption may be imminent.

After nearly nine years in San Diego, I'd never been to any of the Bully's restaurants and felt a tad guilty about my ignorance of a local institution.