Arts & Culture

Where are you?

As we get close the end of this trying year, how would you answer these questions? “Have you changed physically? Mentally? Is your mind going in another direction?” For its current juried exhibition, Selfie 2020, […]

Arts & Culture

Land of milk

Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, an offbeat western that’s probably slipped under most people’s radar, strikes me as one of the most odd and rewarding American movies of the year. A whole range of peculiarities are […]

News

Council pays

The city of Chico agreed to a $50,000 settlement with Mark Herrera, a former park commissioner and City Council candidate, who sued in 2018 after then-Mayor Sean Morgan ordered police officers to remove him from […]

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Opinions

Editorial: Survival mode

Every year around this time, the CN&R makes a plea to readers to shop locally. The refrain goes something like this: Money spent at independent businesses owned by fellow residents gets reinvested into the community, […]

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Opinions

Council concerns

Republicans have stunningly retaken the Chico City Council, reversing a 5-2 liberal majority, with a 2-5 Trump-styled majority. Going forward, after the new census report, the new council will redraw the seven council districts to […]

News

Center of attention

Denise-Judy Johnson has deep roots in South Oroville. It’s where she was raised—where her mother was raised. She was there in the early 1980s when white supremacists spread anti-Black literature at Oroville High School and […]

News

Out in the cold

Cold weather may have claimed its first local victim of the season on Nov. 16—the morning when Chico police officers responding to a 911 call found the body of 55-year-old Scott Walker in a tent […]