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U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson and John Garamendi announced a $939,062 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant for Lake Family Resource Center.
The funding will be used for the center's Early Head Start program, which provides expectant mothers and low-income families with children up to 3 years old with services and resources such as child development, prenatal education, family services and parent involvement activities.
Two decades after the concept of bringing commuter rail service to the North Bay started gathering steam, the first set of trains operated by the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit authority pulled into the Cotati station Tuesday to cheers from hundreds of spectators.
Skeptics doubted whether such a day ever would arrive, given the myriad financial and regulatory hurdles the rail authority had to overcome to reach the historic milestone. Significant questions remain prior to passenger service starting, currently set for December 2016.
Assemblyman Bill Dodd's resolution urging President Barack Obama to create the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument passed the Senate on Monday and is on its way to the president's desk.
The establishment of the Berryessa Snow Mountain region as a national monument would help safeguard the area, enhance visitation, and provide an economic boost to the surrounding communities.
The Napa Chamber of Commerce and the state Legislature have added their voices to those endorsing establishment of a Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.
This proposed national monument would take in 350,000 acres of federal lands in Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Solano, Glenn, Colusa and Yolo counties. Various federal agencies would have to coordinate management for the lands they oversee.
High school students from Benicia and Vallejo gathered with their parents Monday night in downtown Vallejo to look at student artwork entered into a congressional art competition.
Photographs, ink drawings and watercolor art pieces hung on a makeshift wall at The Hub and proud parents took photos of their kids next to their work. Each art piece was vying for one finalist spot from Solano County, in hopes they will go on to win as best artwork for the 5th Congressional District.
Bravo to Rep. Mike Thompson and the hardworking leadership of our city and county to win another $1.8 million for the 'capstone' landscaping of the Oxbow Bypass (Thompson secures $1.8 million for bypass landscaping," March 24) I also want to thank Nordic Industries, the bypass contractor for their hard work to complete the Bypass as soon as possible.
The leader of the Mishewal Wappo Tribe of Alexander Valley on Wednesday vowed to appeal a court ruling denying their attempt to regain federal recognition — what opponents see as an initial step for building another Las Vegas-style casino in the North Bay.
Tribal Chairman Scott Gabaldon described the court ruling as a "minor setback" for the Wappos in their quest to be restored more than a half-century after the tribe's Alexander Valley Rancheria was dissolved by the federal government and distributed to two families.
A federal judge has ruled against an Indian tribe seeking federal recognition in a case that Napa County officials feared might have opened the door for a local casino.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Davila issued the ruling Monday evening for the 2009 lawsuit.
The judgment means that the U.S. Department of the Interior will not have to recognize the Mishewal Wappo Tribe of Alexander Valley in Sonoma County.
Napa will get the flood control bypass landscaping of its dreams, complete with more vegetation to help with erosion control.
Rep. Mike Thompson announced Tuesday he has secured the $1.8 million necessary to restore the originally envisioned landscaping for the project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had switched to a stripped-down landscaping plan to control costs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. >> In recognition of Women's History Month, U.S. Representative Mike Thompson (CA-5) recognized Pamela Phillips as Lake County's Woman of the Year. Phillips was one of five women recognized, one from each of the five counties that make up the Fifth Congressional District.