No one was injured after 30 or 40 shots were fired at a house party Friday night in American Canyon, officials said.
Just after midnight, a house party with more than 300 people was fully underway at the 100 block of Independence Drive.
Around this time, a fight occurred and multiple shots were fired, according to Sgt.
None injured during shooting at house party in American CanyonShortly after Paul Zarkas moved to Vallejo not long ago, he was struck by its ethnic diversity and determined to create a public event to celebrate it.
The first International Cultural Food & Music Festival is planned for 3 to 5 p.m. at the waterfront, all three days of Labor Day weekend. Entrance to the festival is free.
New Vallejoan plans international festival to celebrate diversityAMERICAN CANYON >> A transient was arrested in the wee hours of Saturday morning driving a truck that was found to have been stolen from the other side of the country, American Canyon Police Chief Tracey Stuart said.
At about 1:25 a.m. Saturday, an officer stopped a Chevy truck on Via Firenza for mechanical violations, she said.
Transient arrested in American Canyon with truck stolen from East CoastNAPA >> The first mosquitos in Napa County testing positive for West Nile Virus this year were detected in American Canyon last week, the Napa County Mosquito Abatement District announced.
On July 22, two samples of mosquitoes collected in American Canyon tested positive for the virus, they said.
Napa County's first West Nile Virus-positive mosquitos of year found in American Canyon over weekendA structure fire in Vallejo early Monday damaged a garage, but left a family home habitable, Vallejo Fire Department Battalion Chief Cliff Campbell said.
The call came in at about 5:40 a.m. about a fire on Pueblo Way, where fire crews found an exterior wall of a garage burning.
Some damage was done to the garage, but fire fighters were able to contain the blaze to that area and the family living in the home was not displaced, Campbell said.
Garage fire extinguished before displacing Vallejo familyAMERICAN CANYON >> Even with identified mitigation efforts, the Watson Ranch project would elevate traffic and greenhouse emissions to unacceptable levels, according to the recently released draft Environmental Impact Report on the long-awaited development.
This surprises no one and does not necessarily spell the end for the so-called town center project, City Manager Dana Shigley said Friday.
AmCan's hoped for town center's environmental report finds serious down sideThe Vallejo Department of Motor Vehicles field office will be closed for renovations for about a month starting next week, agency officials announced.
DMV officials said they want customers to be aware that the Vallejo office at 200 Couch St. will close at noon July 29, so improvements can be made.
Vallejo DMV closing for renovationsUnemployment is up slightly in Solano and Napa counties, according to the state's latest figures, released Friday.
The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics website notes that it's typical for unemployment to rise over the summer months.
The unemployment rate in the Solano County was 5.
Joblessness up locally in JuneThe Napa County Animal Shelter and the Humane Society of the North Bay are participating Saturday in the second annual Clear the Shelters pet adoption drive, hosted by NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48.
This is the second year both agencies have participated in the national event.
"This is a great event," Humane Society board vice president Kristin Eddy said.
Local animal shelters to participate in Clear the Shelter event SaturdayThe mercury leak detected in an old out-building near a Vallejo-owned Napa County lake was tested and found not to pose a danger, city officials announced.
On July 18, a city-hired contractor doing routine pipeline maintenance in an old valve house at the Lake Curry Dam discovered that mercury had leaked from a non-functioning, circa 1924 water flow meter.
Lake Curry Dam mercury leak tests found no harmful levelsNAPA >> Napa County Health & Human Services Agency is scheduled to begin moving Aug. 12 to its new location -- the old Dey Labs facility -- 2751 Napa Valley Corporate Dr., Buildings A and B, county officials announced.
The move consolidates public health, mental health, child welfare services, public assistance programs, training and employment services, and alcohol and drug services into one campus.
Napa County Health & Human Services to move Aug. 12If you're looking to buy your first home somewhere in the United States, a new study suggests Vallejo is way down the list of best cities in which to do that. Actually, nearly all California cities are clumped in the bottom quarter of that list.
Vallejo is No. 241 out of 300 best U.S. cities for first-time home buyers -- 112 among 144 small cities -- according to the latest WalletHub study.
Is Vallejo a good place to buy a first home? It dependsAt least two Napa County agencies are riding the Pokémon Go wave, tapping into the nationwide craze to bring people where they'd like them to go.
The city of American Canyon let the public know that Pokémon characters were likely to appear at last Sunday's Farmer's Market. The ploy worked, though a technical glitch prevented it from being as successful as it might have been, Parks and Recreation Department Director Creighton Wright said.
American Canyon, Napa County Transit hop on the Pokémon bandwagonNurses will be picketing Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on Wednesday, as one of seven Kaiser hospitals across California to call attention to what they say is unsafe staffing and eroding standards of patient care, California Nurses Association (CNA) officials announced Tuesday.
CNA represents more than 18,000 Registered Nurses and nurse practitioners at 87 Kaiser hospitals and clinics statewide.
Kaiser nurses to picket at Vallejo, six other hospitals Wednesday"Thirteen Reasons Why," the original Netflix series being filmed by Paramount Pictures partly in Vallejo, is again calling for extras -- this time for a Halloween costume contest, production company officials announced.
Shooting will be Monday, Aug. 1, somewhere in Vallejo. The specific address will be sent to those who sign up, they said.
Netflix series filming in Vallejo seeks youth extras for costume contestU.S. Rep. Mike Thompson is kicking off his first-ever Summer Reading Challenge by sitting down and reading to children at Vallejo's John F. Kennedy Library on Thursday, his office announced.
The St. Helena Democrat will read books from the Library of Congress' Summer Reading List from 4 to 4:45 p.
Thompson to read to Vallejo children at JFK LibraryA Vallejo man was arrested Wednesday on an arrest warrant for burglary and other charges out of Napa County, a Vallejo Police Department spokesman said.
Daishon Hardy, 23, was stopped by police at Ohio Street and Sonoma Boulevard at about 11:30 p.m., and found to be the subject of a warrant out of Napa County for burglary, possession of stolen property and identity theft, Lt.
Vallejo man arrested for burglary, other charges, warrant out of NapaNAPA >> Property values have risen into record high territory throughout Napa County, Napa County Assessor-Recorder-County Clerk John Tuteur announced this week.
Assessor Division staff presented a local assessment roll of more than $35 billion for the 2016-2017 fiscal year to Auditor Controller Tracy Schulze based on the value of all local property as of Jan.
Napa County property values hit record highsTwenty local students from Kaiser Permanente's Napa/Solano area are working at paid internships at Kaiser facilities in Vallejo and Vacaville as part of a program called KP LAUNCH, Kaiser officials announced.
This is the 48th year that Kaiser Permanente is hosting the program, through which hundreds of students aged 16 to 20 are selected from a competitive pool of applicants to work in various departments at its medical centers throughout California, they said.
Ten Vallejo teens get paid summer internship at KaiserA Napa man was arrested in American Canyon early Sunday, on suspicion of several charges related to a stolen car, American Canyon police said.
Just before 1 a.m. Sunday, an officer found a Ford Focus that had been reported stolen to the California Highway Patrol out of Napa County, parked at 100 W.
American Canyon man arrested with stolen carSolano County property values are rising, so, property tax rates won't be far behind.
Property values in Solano County rose 6 percent compared to the last fiscal year, county officials announced and property owners here should watch their mail for a notice from the county assessor-recorder's office on whether their property taxes are going up.
Rising Solano County property values may mean rising property taxesAfter more than six years with the Vallejo Chamber of Commerce -- four of them as president and CEO -- Rich Curtola announced he's retiring at the end of the year. The chamber board is already searching for his replacement.
Chamber member Ken Ingersoll, owner of Gracie's Family Barbecue down the block from the chamber's Virginia Street offices, said there's no replacing Rich Curtola.
Vallejo chamber president Rich Curtola to retireLibrarian and communications media specialist Jennifer Baker is running for a seat on the Napa Valley College Board of Trustees in the November election to represent Area 1, which includes the Browns Valley, South Foster Road, Napa River and Terrace and Shurtleff neighborhoods, she announced.
A Texas native, Baker relocated to California with her husband in 2000 to pursue a library administration career.
Jennifer Baker announces run for Napa Valley College boardThe nurses at Napa's Queen of the Valley Medical Center will vote Thursday on whether to strike, nurses union officials announced Tuesday. They are among nurses at several Catholic hospitals threatening to strike for better wages and working conditions, union officials said.
"Queen's RNs have waited long enough for our management to agree to a fair contract," Registered Nurse Marylou Bahn, said in the announcement.
Napa nurses to vote on strike ThursdayThe 41st year of Vallejo's Greek Orthodox Church's annual Greek festival is going to be a little different than the one thousands who show up each year are used to, organizers said.
There will still be the Greek food -- just less of the kind done in the ovens and more of the kind cooked outdoors.
Vallejo's popular Greek festival moved to July and October