Napa News

By the time Garrick popped the question to Dare - more than seven years into their dating relationship - it was "way past time," Dare says her friends and family alleged.

Coqueta , the subject of my 3.5-star review in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle, is a restaurant that has been open only a couple of months but already feels as polished as if it's passed its first anniversary.

Sonoma and Napa Valley wineries are courting gay customers by coming out with labels in support of same sex marriage.

With high hopes for the direction of Napa County's economy, Richmond-based Mechanics Bank is expecting that a new branch in the city of Napa will be among the bank's top three most productive offices in the next five to 10 years, according to a bank spokeswoman.

Susan DeMichelle founded DeMichelle Deposition Reporters in 1975 in Napa. She moved the main office to Fairfield about 15 years ago, keeping the Napa office.

Confident the Great Recession is over, and having reached a deal with its main union, City Council members will consider Tuesday undoing 3-year-old austerity measures imposed to help close a budget deficit.

The Grateful Dead guitarist made a surprise appearance at Sonoma, California's Huichica Music Festival on Sat., June 15, joining Los Angeles-based psych-rocker Jonathan Wilson for four songs during an afternoon set that included Dead favorite "Dark Star" and the classic "Truckin'."

Gewurztraminer is the first wine that Adam Beak remembers sampling. A family friend managed Navarro Vineyards' tasting room, and brought the unfinished bottles to dinner.

Come celebrate DAD this Father's Day - Sunday, June 16 - with some great Jazz in beautiful downtown Napa, featuring the San Francisco Jazz Quartet! The SFJQ - Roger Glenn , Terry Miller , and Andy Eberhard , and I - will be performing at Silo's Jazz Club, as part of a series of great concerts put by on the Napa Valley Jazz Society, from 4-6pm.

Pleasant Grove, Rocklin and Casa Roble finished among the top 40 teams in Cal-Hi Sports' final state softball rankings.

Jim Robinson/contributor Striking a pose in front of the house that was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's landmark thriller, The Birds, the 2014 Cadenza is Kia's first foray into the full-size near luxury sedan market.

The California Green Party's statewide meeting in Napa, California, will include a panel of Green Party officeholders.

Maps are useless out here, some 2A1 2 road-hours west of Healdsburg, Calif. , the jumping-off point for Sonoma County wine pilgrims.

Three Central Valley residents were arrested at a Napa retail center Thursday night after undercover law enforcement officers found them with what authorities said was a pound of crystal methamphetamine for sale.

Next month's Cloud Identity Summit 2013 will feature some of the most respected industry analysts covering identity and access management in an interactive, engaging three-part session.

Community and faith-based organizations serving Napa County are invited to send representatives on Monday to the first meeting of PHONE -- the Public Health Outreach Network for Emergencies.

A "suspicious" letter that caused a scare at a medical malpractice insurance company in Napa on Tuesday contained no anthrax, the Napa County Sheriff's Office and the FBI said Thursday.

In addition to issues of a tricky 2010 vintage, Sunday's annual look at the tops in Napa Cabernet came with its usual concerns about price - as in, they're too high.

When the invitation says "wine country casual," what does that mean? That's what attendees of this year's Auction Napa Valley , on the first weekend of June, had to think about when deciding what to wear.

A man accused of trying to abduct an 8-year-old boy in north Modesto in April will go to Napa State Hospital for psychiatric treatment.