The Napa County Sheriff’s Department is asking the public’s help in finding a parolee at large, a man they want to question in connection with several robberies in Napa and American Canyon.

YUCAIPA, Calif.  — A brush fire has broken out on a ridge near Yucaipa (Yoo-KY’-pah) in San Bernardino County.

Early Wednesday, Napa County Sheriff’s investigators issued a release stating they were looking for Bryan Klingler in connection with several robberies in Napa and around the North Bay. On Wednesday afternoon, Klingler was arrested at a Vallejo motel.

Settling a long-simmering dispute over growth in the southern part of the county, American Canyon and Napa County leaders signed off this week on a iron-clad map for the boundaries of the fast-growing city.

On Wednesday afternoons, the founder and president of Molly’s Angels usually finds herself at the organization’s board meetings. But this week Molly Banz jettisoned the usual routine, once and for all.

While some Napans complain about vacation rentals in their neighborhoods, others are seeking to add their homes to the list of those approved for short-term rental to travelers.

BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California’s central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening more than 4,500 homes hundreds of miles apart.

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Napa city officials this week sent out warning shots to owners of older brick buildings that they are growing impatient with failures to respond to a two-year-old law requiring earthquake safety improvements in the structures.