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With the twin pulls of Auction Napa Valley approaching and a downright instinctual need to get out of the office, it seemed, well, necessary to investigate the bumper crop of new restaurants just over the hills in neighboring Napa Valley.A From St.

Our weekly Community Shout Outs feature is for good news only, and we find it all kinds of ways.

Updated 10:55 a.m.: The Napa Valley Register reports that Highway 12 has reopened after this morning's collision between a big rig and a motorcycle that left the motorcyclist injured.

What would a sommelier buy with unlimited cash? RN74 somm Eric Railsback broaches that question and more over at Eater National: "I used to see people sitting down and ordering a bottle of cabernet right off the bat, but nowadays...Very high-end Napa wines have seemed to slow to a complete stop.

Hongkonger M.K. Koo has been a regular at Auction Napa Valley since 1995 and is one of the annual event's top 10 bidders.

That's the first sign you see when you enter Jarvis Winery, a hidden world carved into a hillside, a 45,000 square foot sprawl that has something very unexpected in a cave setting - a waterfall.

Napa, Calif. - At the recent Vineyard Economic Seminar, Greg Clark, the assistant agricultural commissioner for Napa County, described how local growers, ag advisors and agricultural regulators joined forces to defeat one of the biggest threats to grape crops in the county and the state, the European grapevine moth.

A Napa Mayor Jill Techel says she never tires of her work. "It's a great job for me.

By Bay City News Service The Vallejo man who was fatally shot by Vallejo police early Monday morning was a valued, 10-year employee, an executive at a Napa winery said Tuesday.

A From 12:01 a.m. Friday, May 25 through midnight Monday, May 28, officers representing five Napa County law enforcement agencies arrested 12 people for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to a press release from Sgt.

A Did you know that you have it in you to become a hero to a whole lot of people, for generations to come?A Be a matching donor for a stem cell transplant and you could help save a human life and keep families intact.

Currently Executive Chef for Fish Restaurant in Sausalito, the Tuscan native has worked in critically-acclaimed restaurants from Italy and NYC to Napa and the North Bay.

A Napa Valley College trustee Steven Reinbolt has resigned from his seat on the college board, according to an announcement from the college Tuesday morning: Napa Valley College has received written notification from trustee StevenA Reinbolt of his resignation from the board effective June 13.

A My palms are bruised, my knee is skinned and a good pair of white jeans will never be the same - all because I happened to glance at a shrub while walking along Diablo Street.

A Film makers from Napa and all over the world are eligible to submit films to be considered for inclusion in this November's Napa Valley Film Festival .

'Civilization: The West and the Rest w/N. Ferguson' Conclusion. Niall Ferguson examines why the West has dominated the world for the past five centuries; and identifies six attributes that spurred its rise, including competition, science, modern medicine, democracy, consumerism and work ethic.

Vallejo police shot and killed a man early Monday after he fled from officers and pulled what turned out to be a metal wallet from his waistband in the city's second fatal officer-involved shooting in three days, authorities said.

A The California Highway Patrol has identified the victim of Saturday night's fatal single-car crash on Coombsville Road as 30-year-old Peter Gerlach of Napa, according to a report in the Napa Valley Register .

A An 18-year-old Napa man was arrested shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday after he was found to have an iPhone that had just been reported stolen, according to a shift activity log from the City of Napa Police Department :A An officer was dispatched to take a report of a stolen Apple iPhone that occurred in the 200 block of Soscol Ave.

We love our burgers here in Napa, and Napa Patch has counted more than 30 restaurants - plus a food truck - serving them.