Customers have shouldered a hefty price for wildfire safety measures. From 2019 through 2023, the California Public Utilities Commission authorized the three largest utilities to collect $27 billion ...

California utilities' wildfire prevention efforts drive up electric bills, sparking debate on cost-effectiveness and ...

William Phillip Kevil, 19, of Oroville was sentenced to 27 years in state prison after pleading no contest to 13 charges ...

The Butte Fire Safe Council held its 18th wildfire safety summit on Wednesday at the Paradise Elks Lodge and hosted more than ...

Aero-Flite currently has 13 operational aircraft. The two new aircraft the company plans to add early next year—both Dash 8-400 Airtankers—are considered among the most modern in the industry, Niemann ...

California’s largest fire this year, the Park fire, spread over 400,000 acres and destroyed or damaged around 750 homes and other structures. It started just outside Chico, where a prescribed ...

including Chico, Red Bluff, Redding, and Marysville, through a joint powers agreement. “The idea behind this is to bring all of the Northern California cities in the top of the valley together ...

In a new letter addressed to President-elect Donald Trump, California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (R-Chico), asked for ... crime, wildfires and more. "The President-elect has ...

By Selen Ozturk As California’s wildlife crisis deepens amid forester job shortages, the state has launched a new initiative ...

California has 33 million acres of forest land; for the 4 million of these that are highly managed, the California Department ...