It began in kindergarten. That’s when Jacolby Martin received his first certificate for perfect attendance.

A Napa winery has agreed to pay $550,000, pull out 750 creekside vines, plant 160 trees and make other concessions to settle charges that it violated county and state land use regulations on its east Napa property.

Two witnesses testified Tuesday that 17-year-old Junor Douglas most likely pulled the trigger of the .22-caliber handgun that killed Anthony Gee at an American Canyon birthday party in January.

Three young men worked to steal a woman’s purse on Lincoln Avenue Monday afternoon, Napa police said.

As part of a speakers series on Napa County’s transportation options, a Metropolitan Transportation Commission planner will talk about “livable communities” Wednesday.

A block of Vallejo Street was cordoned off Tuesday after gusts of wind blew insulation material from a house under renovation all over the neighborhood. The call came at around 4 p.m., according to the city of Napa Fire Department.

A 21-year-old Napa man was arrested Tuesday afternoon near Trancas and Jefferson streets after a witness watched him allegedly kick his dog, lift it up by the collar and choke it, Napa Police reported Wednesday.

A decision on the fate of 27 former employees at St. Helena’s Charles Krug Winery will be made public sometime Thursday.

One of two Vallejo teens is going to be tried as an adult in the murder of an American Canyon 16-year-old, a Napa County judge ruled this afternoon.