Kory Honea

County officials say a new $44 million jail in Oroville will help address capacity issues that intensified after a California law shifted many people in prison to county jails, while improving medical and mental health care.

Here’s how the Sheriff’s Office is spending the new one-cent sales tax revenue voters approved last year.

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea has joined the new media frontier, podcasting. He says it hosts in-depth conversations about public safety and criminal justice.

In Butte County, 83 people have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Coroner and Sheriff Kory Honea says that the county’s network of…