2023 Wildfire Season

The Chico City Council is set to consider raising signing bonuses for certain police officer candidates. Also, gray wolves are staging a comeback in California, and the state has seen a relatively mild 2022 fire season.

Moderate weather and well-timed rainstorms in much of California combined to curb the acreage and structures burned.

In Part Two of our Sounding the Alarm series, NSPR’s Andre Byik and Sarah Bohannon look at how fire-prone communities in Butte County are turning to their own notification systems – including to sirens.

Nothing But Love Owner Iris Natividad hopes the gallery will serve its purpose by continuing to spread the message of art through her shop.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is marking the end of “peak” fire season in the state. Also, certain nurse practitioners will be allowed to treat patients without physician supervision starting next year, and hundreds of farmworkers rallied in Washington in support of a bill that would create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented farmworkers.

In the second story of NSPR’s Sounding the Alarm series, we explore Butte County communities that are turning to sirens for wildfire evacuations. Also, a state report examines how wildfire smoke affects Californians, and the state Legislature is on track to become the most diverse in state history.

NSPR’s Sounding the Alarm series explores emergency communications in Butte County. In Part One, NSPR’s Sarah Bohannon and Andre Byik look into how those who’ve lived through deadly wildfires in the region say the system is falling short.

This Saturday, people will be gathering in the town to commemorate the Camp Fire.

In a report filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Saturday, PG&E officials said that federal investigators seized utility-owned infrastructure located near where the fire started.

Joanne Burgueño captures Dixie Fire survivors through portraiture for the Dixie Fire Stories Project. The project is a social media and storytelling presence on Facebook and Instagram that’s been likened to the popular internet staple Humans of New York, which also publishes photos and interviews of subjects.