The National Weather Service put the hills of western Sonoma County and the mountains of Sonoma and Napa counties under a heat advisory from 11 a.m. Saturday to 10 p.m. Sunday. Valley towns fall outside it.
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The first page of Gov. Gavin Newsom's Sept. 20, 2026, veto message on SB 1272. (Office of the Governor)
Napa passes on help for buyers stuck with code violations
Days after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill to give new homeowners time to fix inherited code violations, Napa County staff sketched a local version for supervisors, then said they weren’t bringing it forward.
Vintage Premier Dinner at Robert Mondavi Winery
Robert Mondavi Winery welcomed guests back to its Oakville estate Saturday for its 2026 Vintage Premiere dinner. It was the first edition of the annual celebration held at the winery since a three-year renovation, and it came as Mondavi marks 60 years since its founding. Guests had a chance to explore the grounds before sitting…
Pulled vines piled beside a fallow vineyard block in western Sonoma County, June 23, 2026. Photo by Roger Coryell.
North Bay fuel dryness is headed past the 97th percentile
Bay Area forecasters project Energy Release Component values past the 97th percentile in the North Bay this weekend. No Red Flag Warning is in effect anywhere in California, and the reason comes down to wind.
Napa’s tourism economy broke even last year. Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake lost ground
A new Visit Napa Valley study puts the valley first in its competitive set on familiarity, perception and likelihood to visit. State data covering all four North Coast counties shows what that was worth once you subtract inflation.
A fire hydrant struck by a bus sprays water over Main Street in St. Helena. The city released the photo with its July 19 advisory on the resulting discolored water. (Courtesy City of St. Helena)
Grand jury flagged the pipes in St. Helena. Then a bus hit a hydrant
A Napa County civil grand jury said in June that decades of sediment in the St. Helena water mains had never been assessed and had no repair plan. Twenty-four days later, a bus hit a hydrant.
The Napa-Sonoma Marshes near American Canyon, on the low-lying Napa County edge of San Pablo Bay. Photo: Melissa McMasters via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
San Pablo Bay floods tonight, and no storm is behind it
A minor coastal flood advisory runs through Thursday. The National Weather Service says 3 to 6 inches of tonight’s high tide is sea level rise — and the North Bay’s water peaks nearly two hours after San Francisco’s.
Napa nursing home sold for $6.25M, fentanyl suit pending
Piner’s Nursing Home in Napa sold for $6.25 million and rebranded as Napa Community Health Center, even as a civil elder-abuse lawsuit over a fentanyl overdose moves through county court.
St. Helena: where the town’s water comes from
St. Helena’s water runs from an 1878 earthen dam built by Chinese laborers in York Canyon to today’s Bell Canyon reservoir — a 150-year story of dams, droughts, lawsuits and the wine families who started it.
Yountville’s French Laundry faces three labor lawsuits
Three former workers have sued the operators of Yountville’s French Laundry in Napa County Superior Court since March, alleging unpaid hours, missed breaks and off-the-clock work. The restaurant group says it will fight the claims.