Highway 70

Butte County is sending personnel and resources to help fight the wildfires burning in Southern California. Also, Habitat for Humanity Butte County remembered former President Jimmy Carter yesterday, and Northbound Highway 70 in Marysville will reopen today, Jan. 10, after a seven-month closure.

Expert explains why bird flu has spread rapidly in the state. Also, PG&E is hoping to raise its rates again, and the City of Marysville has reached an agreement with the owners of a major league development team to make Bryant Park its new home.

A new study out of Chico State details metal levels in watersheds around the Camp Fire burn scar. Though higher than normal, the research says the metals aren't “something that the public should be alarmed about.” Also, a mudslide in the Feather River Canyon has blocked a portion of Highway 70, and a 15 acre-subdivision in northwest Chico was approved by the city council last night.

Part of Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon is still closed after a rockslide earlier this week. Also, cars and trucks made and sold in California would have to be equipped with technology preventing them from traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit under a new bill in the state Legislature, and Californians have relied on the hotline to get same-day prescriptions of Paxlovid — the medication that treats COVID-19. When the hotline shuts down, this easy access will come to an end too.

Proposals detailing the next set of road widening and safety improvements for State Route 70 go before the public this evening. Derided for years as an…

Getting through the Feather River Canyon late next week will take lots patience or excellent timing. Caltrans will entirely close 11-miles of State route…

Ahead of significant upgrades getting underway later this year, Caltrans on Wednesday initiates safety improvements along State route 70 between…

Safety improvements to State route 70 took another step forward Friday, with the announcement of $8.3 million to widen just over six miles of the highway…