Who’s behind those made-up attack mailers? We tracked it down.

What does $1.2 million buy you in Chico?

A spooky tale of the local cabal turning our city on itself.

If you’re even a little sentimental about Chico’s history, it hurt seeing those rock walls along Bruce Road getting scooped up and destroyed like they were rubble. With views of the foothills to the east, the rock walls were the road’s most pleasant feature. It would have been nice to have a bike path running alongside them.

In the words of the Director of the state Department of Water Resources, which actually does control releases from Oroville Dam, “This is just one of many unprecedented impacts we are experiencing in California as a result of our climate-induced drought. California and much of the western part of the United States are experiencing the impacts of accelerated climate change including record-low reservoir levels due to dramatically reduced runoff this spring."