The new conservative-heavy Chico City Council marched forward with its public safety-centric agenda at its second meeting Tuesday (Dec. 15), unfreezing a citywide hiring hold exclusively for the Chico Police Department and advancing a plan […]
Showing no reaction other than self-proclaimed excitement, Dr. James Moore received the first COVID-19 vaccination from the initial batch of vaccine Enloe Medical Center received today (Dec. 17). Moore, an emergency room physician, took a […]
With the North State already under the strictest prevention orders from California health officials, coronavirus surged in Butte County over the weekend, with 662 new cases reported by the county Department of Public Health since […]
Normally, the Chico News & Review publishes a special Local Heroes issue to coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday, when we give thanks to those who volunteer their time for our community. This is not a […]
Bill Kurnizki, CHAT Bill Kurnizki is a tireless “triumph of joy” in his volunteer role as board president of Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT). His lifelong skills as a retired contractor are put to use […]
The day before Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a statewide lockdown in March, Josh Mills told the employees at his downtown shop The Bookstore to apply for unemployment. He’d decided to close temporarily, anticipating that the […]
Closing the Old Barn Kitchen wasn’t a decision Anton Axelsson entered into lightly. Being a restaurateur is Axelsson’s passion and a family trade passed down from his father, a master chef. In his 27 years […]
The city of Chico agreed to a $50,000 settlement with Mark Herrera, a former park commissioner and City Council candidate, who sued in 2018 after then-Mayor Sean Morgan ordered police officers to remove him from […]
Casey Doran, a dedicated volunteer and advocate for the local homeless community, died Dec. 4 after a long battle with cancer, Safe Space Winter Shelter announced via social media. Doran, 67, was a shelter operations […]
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 […]
Denise-Judy Johnson has deep roots in South Oroville. It’s where she was raised—where her mother was raised. She was there in the early 1980s when white supremacists spread anti-Black literature at Oroville High School and […]
Like most local business owners, Erik Twist has had a tough 2020. He’s operated Sub Station, the venerable sandwich shop in south Chico, for 18 years—but says he came within weeks of closing for good […]
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 […]
Charles and Jenn Brooks moved to the Ridge in the spring of 2004, drawn by the charming, affordable mountain town in the hills just above their college city. Paradise is where their two sons were […]
Don Hankins respects fire. For the better part of two decades, as a graduate student as UC Davis and professor at Chico State, he’s studied how wildfires burn and move. He knows their patterns, their […]
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