Year: 2019

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Laura George started a petition to urge the county to fix Centerville Road, which is one lane in one portion and completely washed out in another. When the Camp Fire […]

The CN&R got a tour this week of Centerville Road, which winds up from the Honey Run Covered Bridge site all the way into Magalia. Many residents who couldn’t reach the Skyway to escape the […]

Golden State Finance Authority (GSFA) has donated $725,000 to help Paradise and Butte County residents rebuild. Paradise received $475,000 and Butte County $250,000, which will fund development services fees for granting permits, reviewing plans and […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Butte Valley neighbors (left to right) Danny Cuneo, Ryann Newman and Gail Tozier attend the latest meeting between local agencies and Miocene Canal water users. Newman says she’s incredibly frustrated by […]

Photo courtesy of Scott Amick Scott Amick, an Odyssey Youth program leader and motivational speaker, addresses 300 high-schoolers post-Camp Fire about resilience during a conference at Richardson Springs. In the months following the Camp Fire, […]

One of the images of the Camp Fire I’ll never shake is of Pearson Road six days after the blaze began. I’d traveled that road many times over the years, almost always in happy circumstances, […]

The Butte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (July 23) approved an urgency ordinance allowing temporary log deck sites. The ordinance addresses burned and hazardous trees being cut and stored following the Camp Fire and […]

PHOTO by Andre Byik Wally Sipher holds a photograph of his sister, Judy, at the site of her Paradise apartment off Clark Road. As the Camp Fire barreled toward the town of Paradise, Wally Sipher […]

Richard Towne builds modular homes for a living. So, while he hadn’t set out to make headlines for being the first person—along with his wife, Kathy—to move into a newly constructed house in the Camp […]

The past eight months in Butte County have been rough, and it’s safe to say the Public Health Department has had more than a lot on its plate. While we hesitate to guess why its […]

Butte County has issued eight citations at three different log deck staging locations operating without permits post-Camp Fire. PG&E contractors had set up these sites to store dead or dying trees from the Ridge or […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Chris Singleton has to be out of his current rental by July 31. Like many other renters, he is struggling to find another place to live in Chico. After the Camp […]

Photo by Andre Byik Robert Catalano, president of the Honey Run Covered Bridge Association, says a reconstruction of the historic bridge could be completed in about two years under the nonprofit group’s stewardship. Robert Catalano […]

If you were out of town for the July 4 holiday and didn’t grab a copy of last week’s CN&R, you missed our annual Pet Issue. If not, and you read about the Camp Fire […]