News
Year-end stats stark
Capped by its most virulent month of the pandemic, Butte County wrapped up 2020 with 7,390 total cases of COVID-19 and 96 deaths, according to statistics released by the county’s Public Health Department this afternoon […]
Month: December 2020
Street Talk
Streetalk: Hope or dread?
Asked in downtown Chico. Madeline Mahoneydirect care workerI’m on the side of hope. The further we go away from the initial shock of change, the more we’re able to adapt to it. With the [COVID] […]
News
Kick ’em while they’re down
By Lauren Hepler and Stephen Council for CalMatters CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. For a brief moment this summer, Stephanie Moore thought […]
News
Looming uncertainty
Richie Graves has been worrying a lot lately. He’s worried that, at any moment, Chico police officers or park rangers might appear and evict him and others from the encampment near One-Mile Recreation Area where […]
News
Church bell returns
As an aficionado of historical architecture, Paul Lieberum is no stranger to renovating venerable buildings. Yet, last Saturday afternoon (Dec. 19), he found himself awestruck by what happened at Bethel AME Church. Local contractors have […]
Opinions
Streetalk: Worst holiday song?
Asked in downtown Chico. Whitney Huskybike shop managerAnything by Alvin and the Chipmunks. Ken DevolreporterI’m not partial to “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” It plays endlessly in my head—sometimes even out of holiday season. Miriam JohnsonI […]
News
Pandemic effect
By Jackie Botts for CalMatters CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. In the five years before the pandemic, low-income Californians had begun to […]
News
Council fast-tracks new direction
The new conservative-heavy Chico City Council marched forward with its public safety-centric agenda at its second meeting Tuesday (Dec. 15), unfreezing a citywide hiring hold exclusively for the Chico Police Department and advancing a plan […]
COVID-19
COVID vaccine arrives
Showing no reaction other than self-proclaimed excitement, Dr. James Moore received the first COVID-19 vaccination from the initial batch of vaccine Enloe Medical Center received today (Dec. 17). Moore, an emergency room physician, took a […]
News
COVID escalates
With the North State already under the strictest prevention orders from California health officials, coronavirus surged in Butte County over the weekend, with 662 new cases reported by the county Department of Public Health since […]
Arts & Culture
Growing roots
After stints farming in Italy and Hawaii, Aimee Zarzynski and her fiancé, Kevin White, decided to set roots closer to home, and started their own Gold Roots Farm in Corning in January. The couple grew […]
News
People of the year
Normally, the Chico News & Review publishes a special Local Heroes issue to coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday, when we give thanks to those who volunteer their time for our community. This is not a […]
News
Your heroes
Bill Kurnizki, CHAT Bill Kurnizki is a tireless “triumph of joy” in his volunteer role as board president of Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT). His lifelong skills as a retired contractor are put to use […]
News
Treading water
The day before Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a statewide lockdown in March, Josh Mills told the employees at his downtown shop The Bookstore to apply for unemployment. He’d decided to close temporarily, anticipating that the […]
News
Planning, adapting, closing
Closing the Old Barn Kitchen wasn’t a decision Anton Axelsson entered into lightly. Being a restaurateur is Axelsson’s passion and a family trade passed down from his father, a master chef. In his 27 years […]