Park Fire

One year after the Park Fire, survivors Germain Boivin and Trish Puterbaugh are starting over — right where they’ve always been: Cohasset.

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The CalAssist Mortgage Fund gives money to homeowners who lost their homes in recent natural disasters. In the North State, that includes recent wildfires and flooding from winter storms.

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While balancing full-time work and film studies at Butte College, Dillon Tharp spent the past year filming, “Blood on the Northern Ridge,” in Upper Bidwell Park.

After leaving Chico for two decades, the comedian DNA is back in town and teaching comedy at the Blue Room Theatre. Also, Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday announced a new initiative to push local jurisdictions to meet performance goals to reduce homelessness, and the Butte County Board of Supervisors approved a budget adjustment of more than $800,000 to help recovery from the Park and Thompson fires.

A majority of the area’s watershed was burned by the Park Fire. Storm runoff from the burn scar swelled Chico’s creeks during this season’s storms, but it’s also providing a way for experts to understand how burn scars affect the region’s waterways.

In the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, California public schools have been receiving less funding from the state. In Plumas County, a district says it will have to lay off staff to account for the shortfall. Also, storm runoff from the Park Fire burn scar is helping experts understand how wildfires affect the region’s waterways, and a North State congressman is voicing his disapproval of a new national monument in California.