The price of a residential piece of real estate may be falling. But you’d never know it out among the vines.

A Rutherford man died Monday night when he ran directly into the path of a car on Highway 29, north of the Oakville Cross Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Are area hospitals up to par when it comes to treating serious health conditions?

Electronic voting machines will be on the sidelines when Californians hit the polls Nov. 4.

NapaValleyRegister.com has correspondents at both the Democratic and Republican conventions this year. This week, Napan Tracy Krumpen, an Obama delegate, and Napa political junkies Henry and Lynn Michalski offer their dispatches from Denver, site of the Democratic National Convention.

A former Napa resident pleaded guilty Monday to robbing 20 banks, mostly along the Highway 101 corridor, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

It’s a good thing the central planners of the Democratic National Committee have scheduled Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech for an outdoor football stadium versus the cramped basketball arena they call the Pepsi Center.