SF News 12 People Need Rescue When Napa Fair Double-Ferris Wheel Breaks Down Mid-Ride Children as young as eight years old were stuck in the sky when a ride malfunctioned Saturday night at the Napa Town & Country Fair, requiring a fire department ladder truck to get them all down safely.
Arts & Entertainment New Belgium Brewing Trolls Napa Residents With Highly Implausible Beer-Themed Amusement Park Proposal A bizarre alcohol-themed amusement park proposal called Voodoo Ranger IPA Action Park claims it’s “Coming Soon to Napa,” and residents are already organizing against it, though the whole thing may just be a sudsy publicity stunt.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Wildfire Reaches 570 Acres, Evacuation Order Lifted The Old Fire in Napa is now 15% contained and Tuesday's evacuation orders have been lifted, Oakland is limiting rent-controlled rent increases to 3%, and the Marin sheriff has agreed to stop sharing license plate data from highway cameras with federal agencies.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Announces 2022 Lineup With Metallica and Pink for Memorial Day Weekend, Tickets On Sale Tuesday It’s back to Memorial Day Weekend for the Napa Valley music festival BottleRock, and tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday, with Metallica, Pink, and Twenty One Pilots headlining.
SF News Newell Fire In Napa County, Possibly Caused By Arson, Reaches 132 Acres The Newell Fire, which began as a quickly moving grass fire Monday evening in American Canyon and was soon threatening homes and American Canyon High School, is 60% contained and only reached 132 acres as of Tuesday morning.
SF News Cal Fire Investigation Comes Up Short on Evidence, Can't Pinpoint Cause of Last Year's Glass Fire The official cause of the Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties last fall will remain undetermined pending the revelation of more conclusive evidence, and Cal Fire investigators say they have not found enough to make a determination.
SF News Napa Man With 'White Privilege Card' and Accomplice Charged With Plotting to Blow Up Democratic Headquarters 45-year-old Ian Benjamin Rogers of Napa and 37-year-old Jarrod Copeland of Vallejo are in some hot water over their Trump-fueled rage following the 2020 election.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Suddenly Has More Vaccine Shots Than People Who Want Them A San Rafael man was arrested after allegedly attacking his roommate and her daughter with an axe, Newsom will address the drought today, and Napa suddenly sees a drop in vaccine demand with plenty of supply.
SF News Eight of Nine Bay Area Counties Now In 'Orange' Tier The future is looking cautiously brighter as of Tuesday in the Bay Area, now that Sonoma, Napa, and Contra Costa counties have all graduated to "Orange" tier status, and people can go back to drinking at outdoor bars without ordering food in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF News [Update] Veterans Home In Yountville Locks Down on Report of Armed Woman; No Suspect Is Found Three years after a former patient at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville shot and killed three women, the complex is on lockdown following reports of an armed woman on the campus.
Arts & Entertainment Two Napa Brothers Build Mini Version of Disney's Matterhorn Rollercoaster In Their Backyard A pair of brothers up in Napa have constructed a rollercoaster in their backyard, which one person can ride at a time, styled like Disneyland's Matterhorn, complete with abominable snow monster.
SF News Napa Man Arrested For Explosives Had 'White Privilege Card', Allegedly Planned to Blow Up Twitter and Gavin Newsom A Napa businessman whose January 15 arrest we learned of last week, turns out to have been allegedly plotting to attack the state Capitol, as well as Twitter and Facebook, all in the name of Donald Trump.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa, San Mateo, and Solano Counties Get Stay-at-Home Orders as Region Hits 13% ICU Availability As predicted, just over a week after San Francisco and four other Bay Area counties voluntarily locked things down again amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, the region has hit the state's threshold for the stay-at-home order.
SF News San Mateo, Napa, and Solano Counties Likely to Get Stay-at-Home Orders From State Next Week While five Bay Area counties got a head start with shutting down businesses and outdoor dining earlier this week, and Sonoma issued its order effective Saturday, the three remaining holdout counties in the Bay Area are likely get new shutdown orders from the governor next week.
SF News 'We Can't Keep Living Like This': Dave Eggers Offers Firsthand Account of the Early Hours of the Glass Fire One of the Bay Area's most renowned writers, Dave Eggers, has offered up his own account of the Glass Fire for The New Yorker.
SF News Lightning Strikes Spark Multiple Fires in Napa, Knock Out Power In Healdsburg Monday morning thunderstorms have sparked multiple vegetation fires in Napa County, including a significant-looking one in the woods near St. Helena, and a lightning strike took out power for 11,000 customers in Healdsburg.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa To Shut Down Wineries and Indoor Restaurants As COVID Case Count Climbs Napa County is set to be placed on a state watch list by the California Department of Public Health on Monday, and that means it will have to re-close a number of businesses that have reopened there in the last month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wine Country Wants Waivers to Reopen, Despite Not Meeting Criteria Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties are all talking about reopening stores and restaurants to some degree, yet none meet the requirement of no COVID-19 deaths in two weeks.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Rescheduled For October; Napa County Issues Shelter-In-Place Order Napa County has issued its own shelter-in-place order for residents, despite there not yet being a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county. And as of Wednesday, we're learning that BottleRock is being rescheduled to October, to the week before Coachella.
SF News Heatwave!: East Bay Hills Residents Are On Edge For Fire Danger, Wineries Brace for Power Outages It's expected to be beach weather once again in San Francisco today, but it's going to be in the 100s out in the East Bay and up north, where Napa and Sonoma wineries are bracing for power outages tonight that could be disastrous for harvest time.
SF News Napa and Sonoma To Keep Power On Monday, Still May Lose Power Tuesday PG&E just announced that it will be keeping power flowing to Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties today, though as the hot, dry weather is expected to continue tomorrow and Wednesday, they're not totally in the clear.
SF News Firefighter Dies Helping To Keep Fire Away From Famed Mondavi Winery As the Nuns Fire edges closer to one of Napa's most iconic wineries, a firefighter has lost his life in the process of trying to keep the fire at bay. The fireman's vehicle,
SF News Santa Rosa Man Loses Late Wife's Artwork In Blaze As art venues and galleries work to minimize damage done to their collections, some families are forced to make the decision to leave behind beloved family heirlooms, artifacts, and symbols of lives gone
SF News Santa Rosa's Safari West Works To Save African Animals While Area Shelters Take On More Pets Today is World Rhino Day! Help Save them and #BuyInformed: https://t.co/r2vGrfvLMR #SavingSpecies Photo: Adi Ringer pic.twitter.com/8auhHOTyzH— Safari West (@SafariWest) September 22, 2017 While animal shelters in Sonoma
SF News Historic Round Barn, Arts Center, PGA Golf Course Among Places Destroyed By North Bay Wildfires The death toll is now tragically up to 15, and sure to go higher as at least 150 remain missing in 17 separate firesburning across Napa, Mendocino, Sonoma, and five other California counties.
