Butte County, California
Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Butte County, California, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 653 stories have been published about Butte County, California which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Butte County, California, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 653 stories have been published about Butte County, California which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Chico · ChicoDiagnostic imaging company Open System Imaging is closing down at the end of the week.
Radiology company to close doors
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
School Shooting · ChicoToday we were again shocked by the news of yet another school shooting. Three children were killed and three adults. The assailant was armed with two AR-style weapons and a handgun. What is it going to take to ban these weapons? Currently there are only two other countries in the world that have a constitutional right to bear arms — Mexico and Guatemala, and Mexico does not allow civilians to buy firearms “reserved for use by the military” and M…
Letter: What will it take to ban these weapons?
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Chico · ChicoIn today’s column, I discuss the humble star thistle, aka Yellow Starthistle, or centaurea solstitialis. I grew up around star thistle. It grew everywhere on the dryland acreage in Corning where my family lived. As a child, it was part of my natural landscape, and I paid little attention to it. That changed as I became a teenager, and my family’s small herd of scrawny cattle began challenging the fences. You don’t know squat about star thistle u…
Some things about star thistle just stick to you
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Wildfires · ChicoLife is often all about choices, except if your home is burned down in one of the many wildfires we’ve had (that displaced 37,000 people); except if you were one of the 500,000 disabled or elderly Americans who didn’t get their benefits during the “Social Security Administration Crisis” when 1500 Social Security field offices were closed for COVID recently; except if, your business got wiped out by the COVID induced economic downturn; except if …
Letter: Not all ‘choices’ are created equal
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Chico · ChicoThank you to Mike Wolcott and his team at the Enterprise-Record for increasing the number of book reviews in recent weeks. As an author and educator, I care deeply about writing, books, literacy, and cultivating a society of informed, well-read citizens. In today’s polarized society, this kind of attention to the culture of ideas is needed more than ever. And a warm shout out to Dan Barnett, who often reviews work by local authors. Keep up the g…
Letter: In praise of the ‘culture of ideas’
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Water · OrovilleThe California Department of Water Resources began releasing 15,000 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Oroville on Friday. The release is in anticipation of the incoming stormwater expected through the weekend. The lake elevation has also risen 180 feet since Dec. 1, which is currently at an elevation of about 840 feet, and 60 feet below the maximum elevation.
DWR opens new Oroville Dam spillway for second time
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Water · OrovilleThe Oroville dam footage shows the spillway flowing at 15,000 cubic feet per second.
Video: See gorgeous views of Oroville and Folsom dams releasing water
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Chico · ChicoA Butte County judge awarded the city of Chico legal fees for defending a legal challenge over Measure H. The legal dispute stems from voter information statements for the November 2022 general election. Chicoans Against Financial Mismanagement and Karl Ory asserted that Chico City Clerk Debbie Presson improperly rejected Ory's ballot argument against Measure H, a 1% sales tax increase.
Judge rules for Chico in Measure H case
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