Month: November 2018

Photo courtesy of Jim Wood Assemblyman Jim Wood, left, surveys Camp Fire damage in Paradise with Loren Lighthall, principal of Paradise High School. The sun was beginning to set as Jim Wood stepped out of […]

Photo by Melissa Daugherty PG&E crews rehang power lines by what’s left of the Black Bear Diner on Clark Road the day after the Camp Fire devastated Paradise. The death and destruction wrought by fires […]

Photo by Ken Smith CHAT’s Bob Trausch says the organization has several tiny homes that could be placed and made livable by early 2019. After more than five years of researching, planning and politicking, the […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Mark Sutherland has been staying at evacuation shelters since the Camp Fire destroyed his home. Living on a fixed income, he’s not sure what to do for long-term housing. For Mark […]

Photo by Brian Rinker Martha Pichotta, a Paradise pensioner displaced by the Camp Fire, finds herself at a Red Cross shelter in Yuba City. After barely getting out of Paradise alive before the Camp Fire […]

The smallest things that have the deepest impact. Like how what brought me to tears in the wake of the Camp Fire was the easy strength of a stranger. I had brought my boots in […]

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. I was a bit conflicted—I had a plane ticket to visit my family in St. Louis, and the weekend also was planned as a birthday celebration for my […]

I wanted to write about something other than the Camp Fire this week. But it’s difficult to escape the calamity. Maybe impossible. We’re in a new post-fire world, and there are a lot of ramifications. […]

CN&R file photo Sophie Konuwa is intimately familiar with business in Butte County. As director of the Butte College Small Business Development Center (SBDC), she helps entrepreneurs and established owners to succeed and grow. Konuwa […]

Late last week, as the Camp Fire continued to cast a pall on Butte County—where 88 people died as a result of the firestorm and hundreds more remain missing—the White House scoffed at a newly […]

Focusing coverage on Camp Fire recovery efforts, North State Public Radio launched an evening show, called After Paradise, this week. The program—6:30-7 p.m. weeknights, airing in Chico on KCHO (91.7 FM)—features updated information from local […]

Concow School students displaced by the Camp Fire will have their own campus when classes resume countywide Monday (Dec. 3), with the Golden Feather Union School District reopening Spring Valley School. The Butte Valley site, […]

Camp Fire survivors with lingering questions on how to proceed with rebuilding their homes—and lives—can look to a free resource guide for answers. Morrison & Foerster, a law firm with offices internationally, has updated its […]

Photo by Melissa Daugherty Paradise and its environment will regrow from ashes whose chemical composition is not fully known. Since the outbreak of the Camp Fire two weeks ago, Keith Bein has crisscrossed smoke-choked Northern […]

Photo courtesy of Amber Airth Paul Airth enrolled his 6-year-old daughter, Hope, at Woodson Elementary School in Corning after they lost their home in Paradise. Hope Airth’s last day at Paradise Elementary lasted about 30 […]