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Chico summer checklist
Sure you’re going to Sycamore Pool and the Friday Night Concert. Those are easy. But will you stake out the hidden treasures of neighborhood markets and assorted pop-ups? Will you finally make it out to […]
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High-speed construction
By Ben Christopher, Alastair Bland, Julie Cart and Alejandro Lazo (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to make it easier for […]
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Mangoes in Nor Cal?
This story was produced by CalMatters, an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. In a world of worsening heatwaves, flooding, drought, glacial melting, megafires and other calamities […]
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Homelessness, death and the future: A regional battle over bill to stop loopholes in eviction law
By Scott Thomas Anderson Tenants from around California converged on the State Office Building in Downtown Sacramento Wednesday to implore lawmakers to pass SB 567, also known as the Homelessness Prevention Act. The bill is […]
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When will housing costs come down?
By Ben Christopher (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. This month Californians worried about the cost of housing were offered the […]
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Crash course in water
Jim Brobeck is a long-time Butte County water advocate, water policy analyst for AquAlliance, and the environmental community representative on the Stakeholders Advisory Committee for the Vina Groundwater Sustainability Agency. The mature urban forest of […]
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Bachelor’s battle
By Adam Echelman (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. As two California higher education systems continue to feud, lawmakers have entered […]
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Unfinished mental health business
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. California Gov. Gavin Newsom last month announced a whopper initiative for the 2024 ballot. Sprawling in its ambition, […]
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Bike Issue 2023
Bicycle races are coming your way, so forget all your duties, oh yeah—“Bicycle Race,” Queen This special issue might be a month early for National Bike Month (which is May), but it is just in […]
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Welcome to the bike club
This feature is part of the CN&R’s 2023 Bike Issue. When cyclist Jenn Alexander joined the Chico Corsa cycling club in 2013, she went on one of her first long-distance rides, setting out with a […]
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Getting back on track
This feature is part of the CN&R’s 2023 Bike Issue. Where other people may see nothing but a muddy tract of land past the Chico Regional Airport, Phil Wysocki and Jim Clancy—the track operator and […]
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A home for drag
When Kar Solorio Ocegueda was five years old, he donned a wig made from yarn and got on his school swing set, relishing the feeling of his new locks blowing freely in the wind behind […]
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A united front: How one California city is tackling its part of homelessness
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 […]
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State waters down conservation goals
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 […]
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No California salmon
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 […]