By Cristian Gonzalez Folsom is known as an upper-middle class suburb with great schools and beautiful homes, but it too shows symptoms of the countywide homelessness crisis. According to the most recent Point-in-Time Count by […]
This story was produced by CalMatters, an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. With the Sierra Nevada smothered in snow, large swaths of the Central Valley underwater […]
This story was produced by CalMatters, an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. Most summer mornings at first light, Jared Davis is a few miles west of […]
This story was produced by CalMatters, an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. Two winters’ worth of snow has already fallen in the Sierra Nevada since Christmas, […]
By Bobbi Murray This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. “I think democracy thrives when everybody can participate,” says California Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Culver City). In February […]
By Ralph Vartabedian CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his scaled down blueprint for the California bullet train four years […]
By Douglas Cazaux Sackman At dusk, Tyre Nichols used to ask his friend Angelina Paxton for a ride down the Sacramento River Delta to catch a sunset. They drove her Nissan Maxima to the levee, […]
By Ken Magri While the Sierra snowpack has mostly ended California’s three-year drought, it is creating big problems for people who live in the mountains. Once the warmer spring temperatures arrive, those problems could be […]
A CN&R Outdoor Recreation special feature. If you live in Chico and are looking for some outdoor recreation, nearly any activity you could dream up is just a day trip away. The mountains of Shasta, […]
As a Chico State nursing student, Kristina Chesterman dreamed of traveling to developing nations where she could use her skills to help those in desperate need. Sadly, while biking home from a marathon study session […]
Lately, single mother Santy Gray has been enjoying mini dance parties with her five-year-old son first thing in the morning. This is a new practice for them—Gray said she used to feel annoyed that he […]
After six years spent sailing down the coast of Central America and around the South Pacific, Mike and Mary McCluskey considered three different cities—the homes of their children—to (figuratively) drop anchor and call home. The […]
By Mark Schapiro This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. The Butterfly Effect Ten years ago I met a lepidopterist, a fanatic for butterflies. During butterfly season, […]
This story was produced by CalMatters, an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. Facing an onslaught of criticism that water was “wasted” during January storms, Gov. Gavin […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson A Sacramento County resident who’d hired human smugglers to bring his relatives up from Mexico eventually turned to law enforcement for help after the “coyotes” started demanding more money and threatening […]
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