Efforts to extend the shorelines of Mare Island and Vallejo, narrowing the Napa River channel between them, date to the earliest days of the city and the Navy’s first West Coast shipyard.

MARE ISLAND — When Napa resident Ken Drake recently visited former Mare Island Naval Shipyard where he worked for 21 years during the Cold War, he saw a landscape both oh-so-familiar and yet ...

"Mare Island Naval Shipyard"-related posts for economic development professionals, corporate site selectors and site consultants; from Business Facilities Magazine.

Mare Island Historic Park Foundation is hosting a Speaker Series, “Incredible Journey” that will take place on March 4 at 3 p.m. at St. Peter’s Chapel on Mare Island.Dr. Rob Hoffman of the ...

Editor's note: Mare Island Naval Shipyard is 15 miles south of Napa, but the military facility has had a profound effect on Napa County and the lives of many residents.

The move of the Balclutha followed the towing of the 1895 lumber schooner C.A. Thayer and the 1914 paddlewheel tug Eppleton Hall to the Mare Island seawall. Later this year, the 1890 steam ...