Business started booming for the Bamford family shortly after they opened the doors to their olive oil tasting room and gift shop in 2016. People constantly trickled into the downtown Oroville storefront to sample the […]
Temporary housing set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of the Camp Fire will remain in Butte County through at least May 12, 2021. On Friday (March 13), FEMA announced a […]
Butte County Water Commissioner Matt Tennis has been a vocal advocate for studying the feasibility of a water pipeline connecting Paradise to Chico. That advocacy landed him in the hot seat at the Board of […]
PG&E and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have reached an agreement with the Official Committee of Tort Claimants in the utility company’s bankruptcy proceedings, according to a media advisory from FEMA. The agency, which is […]
The film starts 50 years after Nov. 8, 2018, the day the town of Paradise was leveled by the Camp Fire. The narrator harkens back to the time before blaze, when residents lived in isolation […]
Juliette Chestang came back home to the Ridge in 2017. She’d been away for about 15 years, but after a long-term relationship didn’t work out, she turned to family for stability. She rented a room […]
Frank Nunes evacuated Paradise the morning of Nov. 8, 2018. It was raining fire outside his barbershop and Nunes—aka Frank the Barber—told his wife, Nilene, it was time to close up and get out. The […]
Funded by a Camp Fire relief grant to combat hunger, the Butte County Office of Education (BCOE) unveiled its mobile teaching kitchen Tuesday (Feb. 25) in Oroville. BCOE will use the truck to deliver fresh […]
Town of Paradise officials learned Monday (Feb. 24) that the municipality received a $23 million housing grant from the state to aid low-income residents. The CalHome funds, from the Department of Housing and Community Development, […]
Vince and Kristina Clarkson firmly believe in destiny, that things happen for a reason. Seven years ago, a decade into a satisfying career as a helicopter machine gunner in the Marine Corps, Vince answered the […]
Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Nicki Jones opened Nic’s restaurant after the Camp Fire to create a comfortable gathering place for survivors. After the Camp Fire, it never occurred to Nicki Jones that she wouldn’t return […]
Ridge business owners have had to do some serious soul-searching post-Camp Fire. For those whose enterprises were lost or damaged in the mega blaze, among the biggest decisions has been whether to re-establish in the […]
CN&R File photo City park reservation fees—for events like the Chico Bicycle Music Festival in Cedar Grove—are slated to increase significantly for the first time in 27 years. It has been 15 months since the […]
Property owners in the Camp Fire burn scar now have until Feb. 21 to submit right-of-entry or inspection access forms to ensure burned trees that threaten to fall on public rights-of-way will be or have […]
Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Shelby Boston, director of the Butte County Department of Employment and Social Services, and Scott Kennelly, interim director of Butte County Behavioral Health, say the goal of the new Community Services […]
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