Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Massive Napa do-over prompts grape plant shortage

  December 16, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Napa Valley, one of the world’s premier wine growing regions, has an uncommon problem these days: not enough new grapevine root stock is available to supply …

• Conservationists team up with ranchers, loggers

  December 15, 2012 in Nation/World FRIANT, Calif. (AP) — Two cowboys on horses pushed cattle across an expanse of golden hills overgrown with tall grasses and oak trees, up an unpaved road toward another pasture. … 1

• Study: NJ beaches 30-40 feet narrower after storm

  November 20, 2012 in Nation/World SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — The average New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Superstorm Sandy, according to a survey that is sure to intensify a long-running …

• Study: NJ beaches 30-40 feet narrower after storm

  November 19, 2012 in Nation/World SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — A study has found that Superstorm Sandy washed away an average of 30 to 40 feet from New Jersey beaches, though some suffered five times …