Carr Fire

Shasta County officials are yet again seeking delays in releasing reports and documents to the Redding Record Searchlight. Also, this week marked five years since the Carr Fire and numbers show survivors in rural Shasta County are rebuilding more slowly than those in Redding, and goats are back in Chico grazing on invasive plants in Middle Bidwell Park.

Covered California yesterday announced rate hikes, signaling that runaway health care costs are back after five years of low premium increases. Also, yesterday marked five years since the Carr Fire entered the city of Redding, and a San Francisco company is hoping to install a solar farm on more than 20 acres northeast of Bangor in Butte County.

Officials say about a quarter of the buildings destroyed in the Carr Fire that were located in unincorporated areas of Shasta County have been rebuilt. Also, an exhibit of the Dixie Fire Stories Project is featured in Quincy, and federal health officials are considering breaking single doses of the monkeypox vaccine into smaller doses to stretch the current supply.

A bill moving through the state Legislature would create a fund to cover the cost if a planned fire gets out of control. Also, some areas at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area will reopen Friday for the first time since the 2018 Carr Fire, and a new investigation from the state of California shows rampant fraud within the hospice industry.

Over 1000 homes were lost in last summer's Carr and Delta Fires in Shasta County. Many of those homeowners were uninsured, or underinsured, but there is…

It’s been just over a year since the Carr Fire ripped through Shasta County. Friday evening a ceremony was held at the Sundial Bridge in Redding to…

California’s epic November wildfires were the deadliest and most destructive ever recorded, and the total in dollars keeps rising. More than twelve…

This week we continue exploring how and why to travel after disaster. Why we’d want to? We may not be able to help ourselves, being curious,…

This week we continue exploring how and why to travel after disaster. Why we’d want to? We may not be able to help ourselves, being curious,…

Carr Fire survivors and first responders were honored Wednesday night at the Sikh Center in Anderson. The evening was full of food, music, and Sikh,…