By Rachel Becker (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. As forecasts tease California with rainstorms in early December, the state’s […]
The future of groundwater beneath Chico and its surroundings is being decided right now in ways that will not be reversible. Business interests, with heavy thumbs on regulatory boards and public officials in our dark-money […]
Parking blues Re: Guest Comment: “Parking Meter Fiasco” (By downtown Chico business owners) Thank you for “Parking Meter Fiasco.” The old parking meter system was troublesome, but this new system is terrible. I shop in […]
By Rachel Becker (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. When ranchers violated an emergency order to stop pumping water from the […]
By Alastair Bland CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. December delivered a powerful punch of storms to California. But the wet weather comes with a […]
By Rachel Becker CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. California water regulators approved the world’s first requirements for testing microplastics in drinking water sources—a […]
By Dan Ross This story is part four in the four-part Drought Nation series produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Amid the vast water wars of the drought-parched Central […]
By Dan Ross This story is part three in the four-part Drought Nation series produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Francisco Diaz remembers when the water piped to his […]
By Sasha Abramsky This story is part two in the four-part Drought Nation series produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Becky Spears’ household started struggling with water in the […]
By Steve Appleford This story is part one in the four-part Drought Nation series produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. In California, there will always be droughts. And even […]
Sometimes when I’m selling at the farmers market, people ask if our tomatoes are dry farmed. No, they aren’t. Dry farming is a method of growing crops so that they develop deep roots that can […]
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