Within minutes of being seated in their new positions last night (Dec. 8), the freshly elected conservative majority of the Chico City Council made good on campaign promises to crack down on illegal camping in […]
Cold weather may have claimed its first local victim of the season on Nov. 16—the morning when Chico police officers responding to a 911 call found the body of 55-year-old Scott Walker in a tent […]
Sounds of celebration and fumes from idling diesel engines filled the air behind Raley’s grocery store on Notre Dame Boulevard at 10 a.m. Saturday (Nov. 7), as diehard Donald Trump supporters gathered to protest alleged […]
As a freshman at Chico State in 2014, Wal Riek found himself suffering from a serious condition that afflicts many young people when they first strike out away from home: He missed his mother’s cooking. […]
The Oroville Dam Complex is operating safely with no urgent repairs needed, according to a comprehensive assessment report by dam safety experts released by the California Department of Water Resources on Tuesday (Nov. 9). The […]
Though dropping a ballot on Election Day is the norm during most years, 2020 is—by most measures—a strange beast. On top of record turnout via mail-in ballots—in Butte County and around the country—local voters flocked […]
Kaitlyn Mason will always remember Stephen Vest as “the first boy I ever loved.” She first met him when she was 5, and the pair grew up together and dated for two years while attending […]
Chico Police officers shot and killed a man inside a local pet store last night (Oct. 15). The deceased is described as a white male in his 30s, according to a press release from Chico […]
Katherine Molohon has called Berry Creek home for the entirety of her 34 years. As a child, she played in the mountain town’s creeks and walked its winding, wooded roads. She attended Berry Creek Elementary […]
The only wildlife spotted by CN&R reporters during a Sept. 10 trek into areas ravaged by the North Complex Fire were a pair of ravens ominously perched on a guardrail near the Bidwell Bar Bridge; […]
Following a legal settlement that stopped the Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition (NVHRC) from distributing sterile syringes in mid-August, volunteers from the organization continue to show up at Humboldt Park each Sunday to provide what […]
In May 2014, local social-justice champion Dan Everhart wrote an impassioned guest comment for the Chico News & Review decrying efforts to criminalize homelessness. In it, he criticized city policymakers for adopting an ordinance prohibiting […]
Local opponents of commercial cannabis added a new argument to their repertoire as the Chico City Council discussed allowing such businesses on Tuesday (Aug. 25). In addition to claims that pot shops allegedly contribute to […]
The second meeting of the city of Chico’s recently formed Policing Ad Hoc Committee will be held today (Aug. 13) from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The public can view and participate via phone call-in or […]
A black plywood casket sat in the space once occupied by the Blue Room Theatre’s main stage, surrounded by the room’s figurative viscera: detached lighting rigs, speakers and piles of coiled-up cables. The unintentional stage […]
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