Man reportedly asleep at the wheel takes out bus stop, starts fire By Ken Magri Last Saturday afternoon around 5:00 pm, I was standing at a food truck on Cohasset and Christi ordering tacos when […]
By Ken Magri By now, Northern Californians must be getting numb to it. If it’s summer, the mountains are burning. More and more small town citizens have to sweat out evacuation scares while city dwellers […]
Cal Fire, US Forest Service working towards containment By Ken Magri Now burning through its second week, the Park Fire has already become the fourth largest wildfire in California’s history. More than 6,500 firefighters, 850 […]
This story on wildfire mitigation and insurance costs was produced by CalMatters, an independent public journalism venture covering California politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. By Levi Sumagaysay (for CalMatters) Spend any time […]
When Shelley Price left for Chico for work at 7:20 a.m. on Nov. 8, she saw the smoke rising from the Feather River Canyon—on the side of Paradise where her parents lived. “I called them […]
It’s been five years since the disastrous Camp Fire. Hard to believe, and hard to believe that it happened. The word “disaster” comes from the Latin for being out of alignment with the stars (dis […]
If the 2018 Camp Fire taught one lesson it is this big one: Life is with people. If that seems too obvious, it isn’t. The U.S. Surgeon General tells us half the country now suffers […]
This old road, it’s a long, long lonely way/This old road is bound to get me some day/ But I know I’m goin’ home, and I know there ain’t no other way/But this old road—“This […]
When I think about the Camp Fire’s fifth anniversary, I think about the CN&R. For me, the two are inextricably intertwined. After the blaze, the paper’s small staff wrote week in and week out about […]
Butte County can relate to the devastation wrought by the wildfire in Maui better than arguably any other community in the world. For anyone who lived here during the 2018 Camp Fire, the videos shared […]
By Ben Christopher and Grace Gedye (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. State Farm made national headlines last week when it […]
By Julie Cart (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. As California emerges from its “peak” wildfire season, the state has managed […]
When Kayden Schroyer is at her lowest, she turns to letters and notes she’s received from her friends and her counselor at Ridgeview High School in Paradise. Schroyer, 17, lost everything when her family’s home […]
In the immediate wake of the Camp Fire, there was great need for the residents of the Ridge to gather. But with so much of Paradise destroyed, there were few opportunities to do so. Town […]
Ken Jordan calls it “spotting smokes,” and it’s an easy job when the mountain air is clear: “Sometimes, it’s second nature to spot a smoke without even looking for it.” White, gray or bluish, woodsmoke […]
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