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Month: July 2025

Business

Passion on Tap: The Allies Pub brews a new business model of community ownership in Chico

July 31, 2025 CN&R 0

By Dave Banathy On a typically warm July evening, Allies Pub CEO Steve Kay stood before a crowd of supporters and newcomers, urging them to channel their passion into expanding Chico’s community involvement. Passion—was more […]

News

California may soon ban selling new Glocks like the one Kamala Harris owns

July 31, 2025 CalMatters 0

By Ryan Sabalow for CalMatters The Democrats who control California’s Legislature are poised to ban the sale of one of the most popular types of handguns, like the one owned by arguably the state’s most […]

Weekly picks

What’s going on? July 31–August 6

July 30, 2025 CN&R 0

What show? Deep-dive details here on this week’s picks. Plus, Chico News & Review has you covered with highlights of all the other events at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s […]

Letters to the Editor

Letters: State law changes, cars in Bidwell Park, ICE-ing up, the Vietnam Wall, thrifting, and more…

July 30, 2025 CN&R 0

Re: “California lawmakers roll back environmental law. Why is high-tech manufacturing now exempt?” by Alejandro Lazo and Rachel Becker ( News, July 24) Newsom’s “meet ’em half way” policy toward fascists is cowardly and scummy. […]

Arts & Culture

Marvel is again marvelous: ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ is a stylish, funny return to form

July 30, 2025 CN&R 0

By Bob Grimm The summer of 2025 should be remembered as the time when both the DC and Marvel universes gave themselves much-needed resets. Superman got things back on the right track for DC, while The Fantastic Four: […]

News

Advocates for fish in the Feather River and surrounding waterways respond to State Water Board updates with deep alarm

July 29, 2025 CN&R 1

By Dan Bacher The State Water Resources Control Board has just released its controversial proposed updates to the Sacramento Delta portions of the Bay-Delta Plan. The proposal includes both the Big Ag-backed voluntary agreements on water, strongly opposed […]

Opinions

Project Censored dispatch: The militarization and weaponization of media literacy

July 29, 2025 CN&R 0

By Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, “Media Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATO’s Strategic Goals and the Revival of Protectionist Pedagogy,” from the Journal of Media Literacy Education, Volume 17, […]

Arts & Culture

Meet the podcasters who are exploring craft beer’s impact on Chico’s culture and community

July 24, 2025 CN&R 0

Upstart indie-media beer lovers are excited about things on the horizon By Emily Haerter Some may know Chico for its beautiful hiking trails, others may know it for being a college town with a deep-rooted […]

Editorial

The dilemma of covering darkness

July 24, 2025 CN&R 0

By Scott Thomas Anderson What does it mean in 2025 to have reverence for those who met a violent end? Believe it or not, some journalists may not want to over-dramatize the misfortune of a […]

News

California lawmakers roll back environmental law. Why is high-tech manufacturing now exempt?

July 24, 2025 CN&R 1

By Alejandro Lazo and Rachel Becker for CalMatters California lawmakers recently approved one of the most substantial rollbacks of the state’s signature environmental review law in decades, including a controversial exemption that would allow high-tech manufacturing plants […]

Arts & Culture

What’s going on? July 24–30

July 23, 2025 CN&R 0

Find some happy this week! Chico News & Review has you covered with highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendar for all of […]

News

Indigenous youth complete first descent of undammed Klamath River, reaching the sea

July 22, 2025 CN&R 0

By Dan Bacher On July 11, several dozen indigenous youth from the Klamath Basin and beyond completed a historic 310-mile, month-long source-to-sea “first descent” of the recently undammed Klamath River. They began their journey in Oregon and […]

Opinions

Streetalk: Would closing South Park Drive to vehicles improve your Bidwell Park experience?

July 21, 2025 CN&R 2

Asked in Lower Bidwell Park Chris LoganAspiring Family PhysicianFor me, it won’t make much of a difference. I’ll find ways to walk around the park. I think people need to be more careful around the […]

News

Glenn County may lose its only hospital. How a dispute over roads is endangering it

July 21, 2025 CalMatters 1

By Ana B. Ibarra for CalMatters A debate over roads may cost Glenn County its only emergency room.  Glenn Medical Center, a 25-bed hospital in the rural agricultural town of Willows, north of Sacramento, is […]

News

The Chico man who was arrested for a 42-year-old Oregon murder has a violent past

July 17, 2025 CN&R 0

Suspect was a fugitive who frequented open mic nights in Butte County By Ken Magri On June 28, a Chico resident was taken into custody by local police officers on a fugitive warrant at the […]

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