Camp Fire

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 […]

The city of Gridley’s motto—the small town that loves company—is a nod to the hospitality often inherent in rural life. But that slogan is especially true now that the southern Butte County city has welcomed […]

Approximately $5 million in disaster relief is on its way to two Butte County cities, according to a press release from Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Yuba City). Chico is slated to receive $3 million, Oroville $2 […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Bert Jenkins and Jennifer Powell are among the first residents to move into the Gridley Camp Fire Community. Jennifer Powell sought refuge in the church parking lot across from her mobile […]

Photo by Andre Byik The design has become a ubiquitous symbol of Camp Fire solidarity. Found attached to car windows, worn on T-shirts and transferred to Klean Kanteen bottles, the outline of California with superimposed […]

Photo by KatarzynaBialasiewicz/iStock Homelessness in Butte County increased by at least 16 percent since 2017, and service providers are finding it incredibly challenging to secure housing for the people they serve post-Camp Fire. Nicole LiBaire […]

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office used circumstantial evidence to identify the remains of Camp Fire victim Judith Sipher, 68, of Paradise, her brother, Wally Sipher, told the CN&R. BCSO released Judith’s name last Friday (Aug. […]

Map courtesy of California Public Utilities Map shows counties most vunerable to wildfires in Northern California. The city of Winters is a cluster of old Italianate façades and worn Western storefronts tucked between Putah Creek […]

PHOTO BY ANDRE BYIK Protesters on Monday (Aug. 12) line the entrance of the Chico Elks Lodge, where lawmakers held a meeting focused on Camp Fire recovery efforts. Susan Dobra lost her home—and possessions collected […]

Photo courtesy of Megan Brown Megan Brown had to put down her boar Itty Bitty (pictured at center) after a bear attacked and critically injured him this past December. Lyndi Wade woke with a start […]

For folks who live in Butte Creek Canyon—particularly those on the middle stretch of Centerville Road—an improved escape route is in the works. It just might take a year to get it completed. That’s because […]

The Camp Fire claimed its 86th victim on Aug. 5, according to a Butte County Sheriff’s Office press release. Paul Ernest, a 72-year-old Paradise man, spent the last nine months of his life at hospitals […]

Chico State student James Troupe has been couchsurfing. He says he knows he can stay with his parents—they’ve invited him to come home. But right now, home is an RV parked at their property in […]

Aug. 26 is the start of Butte College and Chico State’s first academic year after the state’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire. In this week’s special Back to School issue, we take a look at […]

Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Bernie Sanchez and one of her doggy visitors at Paw Springs Resort, aka her home in Orland. For two decades, Bernie Sanchez worked as a perinatal technician at the Birth […]