Chico mass overdose: A day that scared the hell out of everybody
Between the Oroville dam evacuation, the Camp Fire and the occasional flash flood in our area, local law enforcement officials, firefighters and medical personnel have encountered just about every...
View Article$1 million Camp Fire donation returned to Walmart Foundation
In the latest twist involving a $1 million Walmart Foundation gift intended to help the homeless in Chico, the North Valley Community Foundation said Wednesday it was returning the money to Walmart and...
View ArticleAB5: Diverse crowd marches on California Capitol to overturn ‘gig economy’ law
SACRAMENTO — There were truck drivers demonstrating next to dancers, and singers standing in solidarity with court transcribers. There were also massage therapists, sign language interpreters,...
View ArticleSealed ballot box found at Chico State University; 529 ballots not included...
Just when you thought the elections were over in Butte County, here come another 529 ballots. An official sealed ballot box on the campus of Chico State was found to have been overlooked in the...
View ArticleMore evacuations ordered as Dixie Fire expected to surge
Driven by winds that are expected to return with a vengeance Wednesday afternoon, the Dixie Fire continue a resurgence Monday night and Tuesday morning, leading to further evacuations and warnings in...
View ArticleOpinion: The same old ‘whoops’ as Northern California burns again
“Whoops! Clumsy me!” If this situation wasn’t so sickening, so heartbreaking, so horrific and gut-wrenching awful, you wouldn’t know rather to laugh or cry. But some comedy of errors are so bad and so...
View ArticleOne year later: Chico’s Tristan Hirsch recalls the horrors of suicide bomb...
For as long as there have been countries, there have been wars. We send the best of our young men and women into unspeakably horrific situations that will stay with them for the rest of their lives —...
View ArticleOpinion: We were held hostage by an airline for a day and a half
If you’ve ever been held hostage by an airline for a day and a half, I invite you to whine right along with me. My wife and I recently celebrated our 10-year anniversary with a trip to Key West, Fla....
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