You don't need us to tell you that Napa Valley is a nice place to visit. What you do need is a way to lose the masses.
As a crippling drought threatens to destroy livelihoods in one of America's most productive agricultural areas, farmers aren't happy about water restrictions aimed at protecting endangered fish
Stealing fuel
updated: Fri Jun 06 2008 07:11:00
Thieves are stealing thousands of gallons of fuel from California farmers. Chris Lawrence reports.
Standing in a field of organic tomatoes, farmer Pete Belluomini says the ground-cracking drought and unrelenting insects make it difficult enough to make a living on the land.
Repossessed houses have become the refuge of criminals and vagrants in one area hit hardest by the mortgage crisis
There's a war on bluster, and Fred Franzia is losing. Sure, the CEO of Bronco Wine, the nation's fourth-largest wine company, tells me repeatedly that only a sucker would pay more than $10 for a bottle of wine - including his own $35 Domaine Napa. And that Napa's and Bordeaux's claims about their special soils are bogus: "We can grow on asphalt. Terroir don't mean sh*t." After relieving himself by the side of his Jeep, Franzia recounts a trip to Burgundy where, after an elaborate tasting, he told the winemaker at Château Haut-Brion, "You can bottle gasoline if you can sell that."
There is nothing like coming home, and I got the chance to do that today thanks to an invitation to join in a lunch forum hosted by the Kenneth L. Maddy Institute at California State University, Fresno, which sets out to train new leaders.
A San Francisco company said Friday it plans to build the world's largest, solar power "farm" near Fresno, California.
A federal firefighting team took over direction of efforts Sunday to halt a fast-moving wildfire that had killed three people
Like many other California renters in early 2005, Nick Basile and his fiancée, Jackie Neuffer, felt the pressure of ballooning home prices.
Fortune: Exotic profitsupdated: Mon May 26 1986 00:01:00
The U.S. farm trade surplus sinks to its lowest level since 1972. A record 200 million tons of unwanted grain gathers dust in silos around the world. Clearly the U.S. farm crisis is not going to di...
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