Jake Hutchison

When Emilia Erickson fled her home during the 2008 Butte Lightning Complex fires while six months pregnant, she had no idea that it would only be a practice run for when she once again evacuated in…

The California Department of Water Resources has funneled various resources into maintaining strict cleaning and checking measures on watercraft attempting to enter the department’s bodies of…

Ballot drop-off boxes were scattered around Butte County on Tuesday and residents regularly made stops to drop off their yes or no votes, sometimes as simply as driving by and inserting their envel…

Witches, skeletons, mimes and more were already haunting downtown Chico in the hour before Treat Street officially started on Friday.

Fresh off the first of what could be many Five-Mile projects to clean up decades of debris and sediment, Public Works Director Josh Pack presented some options to the board during Tuesday’s m…

With less than a week before polls close, the Butte County Farm Bureau hosted an event pushing back against Proposition 50 alongside representatives from other farm bureaus, Modoc County, farmers a…

Scam of the Week generally runs every Tuesday. Readers are welcome to contact reporter Jake Hutchison to report scams and potential scams they have come in contact with by calling 828-1329 or via e…

The council was underwhelmed with Abaris Group’s report and recommendations.

Regrowth for the town of Paradise has overall occurred faster than many in government, as well as residents, expected.

The fallout of shrinking funds eventually made its way to public safety sectors such as the District Attorney’s Office and the Sheriff’s Office, both of which struggled to keep up with …