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Materra winery won Napa County permission to add wine production, visitors, and winery building square footage.

Napa Valley Register Editorial Board A new report on how Supervisor Belia Ramos came to have an early COVID vaccine at age 42 is a political inkblot test — people see in it what they want to see. For the many who dislike Ramos, the report is Watergate, Iran Contra and the Teapot Dome combined, a scandal so discrediting that the second-term supervisor must pay the ultimate political price. For the many who like Ramos, it is one of those metaphorical nothingburgers, a witch-hunt and a political smear job that needs to be roundly ignored. Support local news coverage and the peop...

5 hrs ago Workers are busy renovating the Highway 12/Interstate 80 interchange to ease the evening Highway 12 backups through Jameson Canyon. Highway 12 Workers are building a bridge that will carry two lanes of traffic from Highway 12 to Interstate 80, eliminating a merge point that can back traffic up a mile into Jameson Canyon. Barry Eberling Highway 12 A pile driver is helping to create a new entrance for eastbound Highway 12 onto eastbound Interstate 80, Green Valley Road and Interstate 680. The $77 million project in Solano County is along the key connection bet...

Napa County is sounding the alarm that proposed California wildfire hazard area rule changes could trigger costly road improvements for rural home construction and even minor winery expansions. The state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection is revising its Fire Safe Regulations that locally affect much of the rural county outside of the Napa Valley floor. It recently released a draft of the changes and could adopt them in June. Question marks remain. County officials said the proposed rule revisions would apply to use permit changes that increase “density or intensity” in wildfi...

After hearing from Cal Fire, Napa County will forego an offer from a private group to base two water-dropping Fire Boss planes here this fire season for early wildfire response. Growers/Vintners for Responsible Agriculture offered to pay $1.5 million to lease the planes and crew from Dauntless Air. But in the face of Cal Fire opposition, the Napa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rejected the offer for now. “This is an awkward spot for us, because we have people offering an incredibly generous offer, but we don’t personally do the firefighting and our firefighters are saying...