Clarksburg News

California lawmakers passed an $11 billion overhaul of the state's water system Wednesday, including a restoration of the crucial Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Pour a little spook in your sip with Halloween-themed wines. We've done the shopping and tasting, so there's no need to be scared.

Peter Hunn, left, and his cousin, John Merwin, are seen in field of safflower on the family farm near Clarksburg, Calif.

News and observations for recreational and competitive runners in Northern California.

Patty Bogle, the matriarch behind the Bogle Winery in Clarksburg, is battling leukemia once again.

As California school districts struggle to improve student achievement and balance budgets in an era of cuts, they've got to think differently -- even radically.

Peter Hunn has a simple wish: He'd like his children to farm the land in California's delta that his great, great grandfather settled more than a century ago.

We can feel it in the air. The season's changing, and red-wine weather is just about here.

No, the helicopters you'll see in the air for the next two weeks over Yolo and Colusa counties are not the so-called "black helicopters" being used in some secret government project.

Aged with 20% new French oak and 10% new American oak. Extremely fruity with tremendous mid palate structure this wine has a ruby hue with ripe fruit aromas of strawberry & Bing cherry fruit with hints of cedar, vanilla, & lavender.

The grape gods have traditionally been good to the growers in Clarksburg, with fruitful harvests and an increasing demand for their wine.

Despite its youth as fine-wine country, California has come to be recognized for the marvelous affinity of certain grape varieties with particular landscapes in a few enclaves about the state.

We're looking forward to a change in season, when cabernet sauvignon, Bordeaux blends and other hearty reds will hit the spot.

It's not the Titanic, but it's an important find in Sacramento's maritime past. An old Gold Rush deep-water wooden vessel was recently unearthed along the banks of the Sacramento River.

The Yolo County Sheriff's Department, Animal Services Section, at the request of West Sacramento Police Department, is advising the people of West Sacramento that a Mountain Lion was sighted this morning for the second time within a week.

James and Barbara Bushnell of Redmont chat with Thomas LaBoone of the Village Wine Market about the wines.

1960s In 1968, Warren Bogle Sr. and son Chris planted 18 acres of petite sirah and chenin blanc grapevines in Clarksburg.

A hunt for a mountain lion sighted in West Sacramento was called off Saturday afternoon after about five hours without finding the animal or traces it was living in the area, police spokesman Lt.

Warren Bogle checks the grapevines at Bogle Vineyards. Representing the family's sixth generation in Clarksburg, Bogle grew up on the land, learning to drive a tractor when he was 12.

These are the long-term average July high temperatures for local cities, collected by local meteorologist and author Tom Loffman from the National Climatic Data Center, government agencies and home weather stations.