Year: 2019

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Debra Lucero asks county staff for information about a proposed pipeline from Paradise to Chico. Supervisor Debra Lucero was on the receiving end of public outcry near the end of a […]

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper The Camp Fire memorial crosses, erected last December, were taken down last week. At sunset last Tuesday (Oct. 15), volunteers began removing and preserving the Camp Fire memorial crosses along […]

Image from frontline courtesy of REUTERS/Stephen Lam Burning sign outside Paradise Skilled Nursing during 2018 Camp Fire. Films of the fire For many Butte County residents, the coming weeks leading up to the one-year anniversary […]

On Tuesday (Oct. 22), the Butte County Board of Supervisors affirmed that rebuilding the Honey Run Covered Bridge, which was destroyed in the Camp Fire, is not in the county’s best interest. The decision sets […]

The Paradise Town Council and Butte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Oct. 22) each adopted urgency ordinances establishing guidelines for removing hazardous trees on private property that threaten to fall on public rights-of-way. The […]

Photo by Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters A worker douses potentially contaminated soil in Paradise, 11 months after the Camp Fire. As California braces for peak fire season, the most extensive post-fire cleanup it has ever taken on […]

Wildfire victims who believe they have a claim against PG&E for property damage, personal injury, wrongful death or other losses stemming from Northern California fires—including the Camp Fire—that happened before the company’s Jan. 29 bankruptcy […]

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office revised the number of people killed in the Camp Fire from 86 to 85 after concluding that a previously unidentified bone fragment belonged to an already identified victim. The fragment […]

On Tuesday (Sept. 24), the Butte County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a letter of support for a bill that would establish a grant program to strengthen or construct evacuation routes. The federal bill, H.R. […]

Photo by Melissa Daugherty One snapshot of Paradise on Nov. 9, the day after the Camp Fire ravaged the town. Climate change is here. On average, temperatures are already 1 degree Celsius warmer than pre-industrial […]

Photo by Andre Byik Rich Harwood, author and founder of the Harwood Institute of Public Innovation, stopped at the Paradise library before touring the fire-devastated town. Rich Harwood was called into Newtown, Conn., after a […]

PHOTO BY ANDRE BYIK Ron Smith, left, and Robin McCollum, both former certified arborists, stand near an oracle oak they say has been improperly marked for removal by Butte County. Ron Smith began noticing the […]

PHOTO COURTESY OROVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT The Oroville City Council on Tuesday (Sept. 3) voted to seek proposals from outside agencies to provide fire services for the city. City Administrator Bill LaGrone is confronting Oroville’s post-Camp […]

Assembly Bill 430, the Camp Fire Housing Assistance Act of 2019, continues to roll toward adoption as state law. It’s not just its lead author and champion, North State Assemblyman James Gallagher, saying so—Gov. Gavin […]

The city of Gridley’s motto—the small town that loves company—is a nod to the hospitality often inherent in rural life. But that slogan is especially true now that the southern Butte County city has welcomed […]