Editor's note

Editor’s Note: “No” on dirty campaigns

This feature is part of the CN&R’s 2024 election coverage. Like most contentious ballot issues that have come before Chico voters, the campaigning surrounding the Valley’s Edge referendum has been filled with noisy distractions. And […]


Election 2024

Still undecided on Valley’s Edge?

This feature is part of the CN&R’s 2024 election coverage. If you follow E. 20th St. as east as it goes, the road comes to an end at a locked gate with a “No Trespassing” […]


Local Government

City council recap: New subdivision approved

The city of Chico is likely to get a tiny bit bigger in the near future. Last night, the City Council voted 6-1—with Councilman Addison Winslow opposed—to approve proposals that will allow Tatreau Construction to […]


Editor's note

Editor’s Note: End note

After the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out advertising and forced a temporary cessation of print publication in March of 2020, the Chico News & Review came back to print that July. For three-and-a-half years the newspaper […]


Arts & Culture

Back to the boards

The Chico theater scene has kind of settled into a groove after being so disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, one that includes many of the usual suspects making their way through our area in the […]


Arts & Culture

Arts DEVO: Yodel-ay-bleep-bloop

This column is Arts DEVO’s happy place—standing in the middle of the local arts scene, taking in a wide view of the comings and goings of local and visiting creators and painting a picture of […]



Arts & Culture

Arts DEVO: 2023 DEVO Awards

Welcome to the 16th edition of Art DEVO’s annual local arts and culture awards. The envelopes, please … The Hope Award: Chikoko’s Gravity In advance of the Oct. 21 fashion/art show at Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, […]


Editor's note

Editor’s Note: Quoting 2023

Tying a bow around the year with quotes—by me and others— taken from a year’s worth of this column: What’s uncomfortable for many people is to meet people where they’re at. It changes people’s lives. […]


Camp Fire

To stay or to go?

When Shelley Price left for Chico for work at 7:20 a.m. on Nov. 8, she saw the smoke rising from the Feather River Canyon—on the side of Paradise where her parents lived. “I called them […]


Camp Fire

Editor’s Note: Green Forest Lane

This old road, it’s a long, long lonely way/This old road is bound to get me some day/ But I know I’m goin’ home, and I know there ain’t no other way/But this old road—“This […]


Arts & Culture

Arts DEVO: Show people

She is a showgirl Over the past few years, Lola Yang has quietly become one of the busier artists in Chico. She’s had two solo exhibits of paintings on the walls of the Naked Lounge, […]


Art

Studio magic

This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. Objectively, the annual Open Studios Art Tour is Chico’s biggest visual arts event of the year. What […]


Art

Season of the witches

This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. Given the month in which the event falls, one could be forgiven for mistaking the “Witch’s Market,” […]


Art

The pull to create

This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. What does gravity feel like? Sound like? Behave like? These are questions that the Chikoko arts collective […]