Community events Toys-for-Tots Toy DriveDec. 2-3, Drop off a new unwrapped toy to one of this year’s locations: Concours Elite, Deer Creek Broadcasting, Two Men & a Truck, Wittmeier Auto Center, Chico Marketplace, or Express […]
Each December, the CN&R reflects on the news of the year by putting together a list of top stories. It’s a tradition around these parts, as it is for newspapers around the nation and the […]
In the Chico neighborhood where my wife, dog, cat and I live, maybe a five-minute walk away from our house, lives the leader of one of the local Facebook “public safety” groups. She is a […]
One recent evening, I told my son the good news. I explained that scientists had come up with a way to help him get the protection he’d need to be able to return to school […]
Bodies – AFI The pandemic has been a nonstop conundrum for the music industry, with politics, supply-chain disruption and a decimated live-music scene making the past year-plus very unpredictable. From that chaos, however, the bands […]
With the streaming season stretching on, here are some of the most recent film highlights. Passing (Netflix) A deft and at times brilliant adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing is remarkable in that respect […]
Barring changes in the final phase, the North State will have significantly reconfigured districts for the U.S. Congress and the California Legislature over the next decade. The California Citizens Redistricting Commission released draft maps for […]
With the deadline for redistricting fast approaching, the Butte County Board of Supervisors is still deliberating on how the boundaries will be redrawn. The county has until Dec. 15 to set supervisorial districts. At a […]
Asked in downtown Chico. Danielle HawkinsteacherWe always do Christmas cookies at my mom’s house, which is really sweet. I have two kids and my sister has two kids, and so we’ve been doing it since […]
Better for our elders Re: “Our elders need us” (Guest Comment, Nov. 4): I found this commentary, although well-meaning, a truly sad commentary on our civilization. [Joe Wills] says, as a society, elders must accept […]
Marina Vega works hard to live in Chico. She’s been here since 1992, moving from Los Angeles to be close to family, and got her first job in 1996 at Chico Nut sorting almonds. She […]
Recent articles by local investigative journalist Dave Waddell published on the Chico Sol website reveal disturbing new details about the law-enforcement-involved killing of 34-year-old Tyler Rushing in Chico the night of July 23, 2017. The […]
Chris Chaffee of Redistricting Partners, a consulting company hired by Butte County, didn’t mince words at a special meeting of the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Nov. 22) focused on drawing district lines. The […]
As a boy growing up in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s, I had two heroes: my dad and Willie Mays—the Say Hey Kid, the great slugger, center fielder and base stealer for the San […]
About 90 minutes into the Chico City Council meeting Tuesday night (Nov. 16), after a presentation on homelessness by Butte County Behavioral Health Director Scott Kennelly and half-hour pause to address a malfunctioning internet livestream, […]
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