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Gallery: Fall colors around Chico

Photographs by Ken Magri

When fish are free: Hundreds of salmon are now spawning in Klamath River and tributaries after dam removal completed

By Dan Bacher Hundreds of fall-run Chinook salmon are now spawning on the Klamath River and its tributaries both above and below the former sites of the four PacifiCorp dams – now that the removal […]

The region’s freshwater ecosystems are in urgent peril: report suggests a portfolio of tools may help

By Jennifer Junghans In California, nearly 4,000 native plant and animal species depend on the state’s freshwater ecosystems. Trout, salmon and smelt run the rivers and carry nutrients to and from the oceans. Nutrients feed the invertebrates […]

A grand call for art in Chico

The city’s arts commission is busy creating opportunities for visual artists By Ken Magri The Chico Arts Commission, or CAC, is looking for artists, ideas and money for several projects intended to revitalize the city’s […]

Killer confirmed? Netflix doc ‘This Is the Zodiac Speaking’ reveals info that seemingly solves the infamous case

By Bob Grimm It’s already been seventeen years since David Fincher released his supremely well-done Zodiac, starring Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal as a combination of detectives and reporters trying to track down […]

A soldiering small business: Chico’s Krak Boba owners reflect as they celebrate 6-month anniversary

By Helen Harlan When Chico natives Cyndi and Frank Pereira opened Krak Boba Chico in East Avenue Marketplace in May, some of their close friends and family thought the couple was crazy. “Sometimes, we still […]

My drive back to Chico with Blind Uncle Ernie

A remembrance of what I learned about life by just listening By Ken Magri One winter day in 2011, I walked up to my 98-year-old Uncle Ernie’s apartment door in Carmichael and knocked. “Hey, Ernie, […]

Chico State’s Forensic Anthropology department is helping solve baffling homicides across the West and getting unknown remains brought home

By Samin Vafaee From “CSI” to murder podcasts, stories of true crime are on the rise in popularity. But before these cases turn into Netflix documentaries, an immense amount of forensic work goes into identifying […]

What the ghost stories of Venice tell us about … us

By Scott Thomas Anderson You can glean a lot from a culture by how it remembers its dead. In our corner of California, most ghost stories involve unlucky prospectors, victims of frontier justice and thousands […]

Election coverage

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Raised in Butte County, District 3 Assembly Candidate Aaron Draper discusses the region’s biggest issues

By Ken Magri “I am not a politician,” says Aaron Draper, taking his first dive into electoral politics by challenging Assemblymember James Gallagher. He knows he has a mighty uphill climb ahead of him. Trying […]

Proposition confusion: Rent control, affordable housing and AIDS drugs intertwine in Propositions 33 and 34

By Ken Magri By the middle of October Californians start feeling the agony of frequent mailers and political advertisements for ballot propositions. But even the sharpest voter can get confused by the way these voter […]

All’s fair in Chico election politics? Attack mailers raise questions about honest campaigning

By Ken Magri In a race for two Chico city council seats, a controversy has erupted over recent negative campaign mailers addressing the issue of homelessness. Two of the challengers are crying foul about the […]

From lighthouse ghosts to modern jazz and stage visions, writer Dana Gioia is still proving that poetry can matter

Former Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia recently released his new collection ‘Meet Me at the Lighthouse.‘ By Scott Thomas Anderson To descend into the underworld of California’s literary past, the only Virgil for guiding […]

Butte Environmental Council rallies the community in an era of climate anxiety

On the heels of Chico river clean-up, group holds its Climate Action Day on Saturday By Odin Rasco Soaking in the final rays of the summer sun (or, at least, the last official day of […]

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