Paradise

The Butte County Fire Safe Council put on it's second annual Paradise Grazing Festival last week.

Patients of Chico Immediate Care say they received calls from the clinic informing them of its pending closure. Also, a Paradise Town Council member speaks with NSPR about advocating for tax relief for fire survivors, and the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office announces an update in a 2005 killing.

The Paradise Town Council will send a council member to Washington, D.C., to express support for tax relief on PG&E settlement money. Also, ongoing winter storms have hit agriculture hard in the Sacramento Valley, and President Joe Biden is expected to visit California to assess the damage from the storms.

The Paradise Genealogical Society Saturday celebrated the opening of a new permanent headquarters and library after losing its previous location in the 2018 Camp Fire.

The Governor’s office releases a plan to address rising heat. Also, a monument for pets and wildlife lost in the 2018 Camp Fire was recently unveiled in Paradise, and a new bill in the state Legislature aims to make energy costs more transparent before tenants sign a lease.

The mayor of Paradise says the town stands with the Ukrainian people. Also, Chico’s mayor tells the city’s critics to roll up their sleeves rather than complain in a State of the City speech, and a UC Santa Cruz study shows a 41% drop in Black-owned small businesses during the pandemic.

Two Chico State researchers have been studying the aftermath of the 2018 Camp Fire for the last three years. This fall, they released updated data that show where survivors relocated.

A fire survivors’ rally drew about a hundred people to the Skyway in Paradise Saturday. The vast majority of fire victims have not yet received any money from a trust that was set up last year to distribute billions of dollars as part of a settlement.

The Paradise Town Council voted last week to extend Temporary Use Permits allowing residents to live in RVs on their property. The 4-1 decision gave Camp Fire survivors until September 30 to apply for rebuild permits or meet other thresholds.