Search results for

The city of Chico is again using goats to reduce fire risk. The project is funded in part by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Also, Shasta County’s former Health and Human Services Agency Chief Financial Officer alleges he found discrepancies and issues with the agency’s finances before he was terminated just a day later, and California's Health and Human Services Secretary is stepping down. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the departure of Dr. Mark Ghaly on Friday. He’ll leave at the end of the month.

Jason Isbell's Southeastern, Kanye West's Yeezus and an assortment of remarkable women dominated the Fresh Air critic's year in listening.

Also: Soccer star Lionel Messi is sentenced to prison in a tax fraud case; Chinese flooding deaths increase; and nobody won the Mega Millions lotto last night: the jackpot is now $508 million.

Also: Evidence of mass graves are discovered near Mosul; the U.N. condemns an attack on peacekeepers in Mali; and India bans large currency bills to fight corruption.

The year in music included so many outstanding songs and albums by women that it's easy to come up with an all-female top 10.

Record prices are being paid for landscape paintings of the American West. Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center went to the Couer d'Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nev., and found serious buyers bidding into the hundreds of thousands or more, to own a Frederick Remington or a Charlie Russell or a Frank McCarthy.

As we count down to the new year, we asked our readers what they thought were the top political stories of 2021. Here's what they picked.

An incredibly strong pool of artists entered this year's Tiny Desk Contest. And though there's just one winner, there were so many more entries our judges loved.

The world is spending more on the military since global figures became available in 1988. Together, the U.S. and China make up half of the world's military spending.