Assembly Bill 430, the Camp Fire Housing Assistance Act of 2019, continues to roll toward adoption as state law. It’s not just its lead author and champion, North State Assemblyman James Gallagher, saying so—Gov. Gavin […]
Photo courtesy of White Pony Express Judith Parker hands out treats, homemade by a volunteer, at the Old Orchard RV Park in Orland. She says White Pony Express delivers there to at least 100 Camp […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Residential construction underway in Chico includes an apartment complex along Highway 32 (bounded by Walnut, West Eighth and West Ninth streets). James Gallagher and Randall Stone don’t agree on much when […]
CN&R file photo Adventist Health Feather River’s emergency room, shown Nov. 9, may get a temporary dispensation to reopen without the hospital operating fully. As the town rebuilds, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones has heard an […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Jessica Kamph, principal of Marsh Junior High, stands on the campus plot that soon will become a garden where students can relieve stress through horticulture. Middle school years, even in the […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Superintendent Kelly Staley says the Chico Unified School District had space for hundreds of fire-displaced students. Nearly a month after the Camp Fire, when smoke had cleared and schools reopened, campuses […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Achieve Charter School Executive Director Casey Taylor, whose high school is closing, says the K-8 campus will remain open and at Life Church for at least two years. Last summer, members […]
Photo courtesy of ClimateUprising.org Susan Dobra and her partner, John-Michael Sun, spread the message of #ClimateUprising from the remains of their home in Paradise. Two days from 2018 remain etched indelibly in Susan Dobra’s memory. […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Dr. Zeljka Chobanov practiced on the Ridge for years. She says she doesn’t like changes, but “whether it was Oroville, whether it was any other location, I couldn’t be spared.” Dr. […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Matthew Trumm shows a spot in Butte Creek Canyon where bamboo acted as a fire break. On a recent morning, the ground still wet from overnight rain and the air chilled […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Joaquin and Nandi Crosby-Jordan don’t distinguish between people who became homeless before or after the Camp Fire. The first day Chico State classes resumed following the campus’ Camp Fire hiatus, a […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Dr. Jamaal El-Khal sees patients in Ampla Health’s mobile unit at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds—shifts he’s taken on top of practicing primary care in Chico and Orland clinics. Dr. Jamaal El-Khal […]
Photo by Melissa Daugherty Smoke remained dense in Butte Creek Canyon (viewed at Lookout Point) the day after the Camp Fire ravaged the Ridge. If Mother Nature sent a sentient message in 2018, surely it […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Persistent smoke from the Camp Fire led to a rush on fine-particle masks in Chico. Access. In 2018, that proved the overarching theme for health care in the North State, the […]
Photo by Evan Tuchinsky Don Hankins, at the Butte Creek Ecological Reserve in the first rains after the Camp Fire, shows where prescribed burning affected wildfire’s spread. Don Hankins had Nov. 8 marked on his […]
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