Month: December 2019

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Chico City Manager Mark Orme says he’ll recommend a portion of an $8 million budget surplus post-Camp Fire be directed to city roads. By now, it’s a well-known fact that the […]

Photo by Andre Byik Jim Boyd began felling Camp Fire-scorched trees on his Paradise property ahead of a broad government-sponsored effort to remove private trees that threaten public roads. Jim Boyd didn’t think it’d come […]

Photo by Andre Byik Chico City Council candidate Rich Ober rallies a crowd during a climate strike in September at Chico City Plaza. In a year marked by the aftermath of the Camp Fire—one of […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Rick Rawson, Adventist Health CEO, confirms that the Feather River Hospital emergency room will reopen. This year, the health care desert grew in the wake of the Camp Fire. Paradise already […]

CN&R File Photo The volunteers of the Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition, which received a license to distribute sterile syringes this year, set up their services in Humboldt Park. Chico State's grand ideas A hotel […]

CN&R file photo Hundreds of supporters filled the Chico Masonic Family Center to hear presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveil his climate plan. PG&E under pressure Following months of investigation, Cal Fire announced in May that […]

As we head into the new year, this newspaper is quickly approaching publishing 300 stories related to the Camp Fire—find them curated online (newsreview.com/chico) at the Camp Fire Reports link. Therefore, it's no surprise that […]

When it comes to ensuring there’s enough money to pay faculty and staff, purchase equipment like microscopes and projectors, and keep the lights on in Chico State’s classrooms, Debra Larson is your woman. As provost […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Doreen Fogle gets a blood pressure check up at Medspire Health’s December clinic in downtown Paradise. Four months after the Camp Fire, Katie Rosauer was providing free medical care to Camp […]

Photo by Andre Byik The Butte County Board of Supervisors explored governance challenges and priorities for the next two years Tuesday (Dec. 10) at the Chico Elks Lodge. Grievances between members of the Board of […]

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Cal Fire’s Gus Boston is spearheading several forest management projects, including one in Concow. Several things became clear early on during last week’s Wildfire Safety Planning Summit in Paradise. Among […]

Photo by Melissa Daugherty CN&R contributor Ken Smith positions himself to take photos of the charred husks of cars on the Skyway. On a dark and smoky morning in July 2018, a friend and I […]

Photo by Ken Smith Staff writer Ashiah Scharaga at the Neighborhood Church evacuation shelter on Nov. 9, 2018. I knew I had to leave the auditorium of the Paradise Performing Arts Center when I started […]

Photo by Melissa Daugherty CN&R Managing Editor Meredith J. Cooper at Lookout Point at the tail-end of a long day in Paradise on Nov. 9. In late 2013, my ex-husband and I moved back to […]

Photo by Melissa Daugherty Two days after the Camp Fire broke out, CN&R Arts Editor Jason Cassidy takes a picture of the address marker at a friend’s destroyed Paradise home. Maybe Conrad’s bass guitar somehow […]