Articles by Melissa Daugherty

The CN&R is committed to chronicling the Camp Fire and its ensuing crises for the foreseeable future. That is our pledge to readers moving forward into the long and complex recovery process. I mention this […]

I wanted to write about something other than the Camp Fire this week. But it’s difficult to escape the calamity. Maybe impossible. We’re in a new post-fire world, and there are a lot of ramifications. […]

Prior to the Camp Fire, the biggest natural disaster in my orbit was the Loma Prieta earthquake back in 1989. Though most of my family is here around Chico, I was born and raised in […]

Photo by Merdith J. Cooper Guido Barbero (masked), along with friends Truck-a-roni, wanted to help evacuees, so he set up operations in the Chico Walmart parking lot, with no expectation the donation center would become […]

I’m familiar with the thousand-yard stare. As a journalist, I’ve seen it many times over the years. Back in the day, as a daily newspaper reporter, I encountered it while interviewing people at the scene […]