Chico News

It's been 20 years since the Economic Development Administration has put infrastructure money into Chico, but the federal agency has just pledged $2.5 million to finish widening Cohasset Road to four lanes to the airport.

Along the shoulders and median of Highway 99 through Chico, trash of all kinds is accumulating faster than Caltrans crews can clean it up.

The state has already declared 2009-2010 the third consecutive drought year, but it could still be wet.

Officers from eight Butte County law enforcement agencies will be patrolling Chico streets tonight, looking for motorists driving under the influence.

Authorities are working the scene of a crash at Hegan Lane and the Midway that ended a high-speed chase this afternoon.

A Chico man who was attacked with hot cooking oil and barbecue coals and beaten with a rifle saw his assailant Tuesday get the maximum sentence of 11 years in prison.

A chaplain with the Chico Police Department discovered the body of James John Paidl, 62, floating in the Sacramento River Monday afternoon, about a mile from where his canoe capsized on Nov.

A squirrel that got into equipment at a PG&E substation at West Second and Orange streets is being blamed for a 2:30 p.m. power outage which blacked out Chico State University and several streets nearby.

By late January or early February, the state expects to announce its plans for cleaning up a polluted site near the North Valley Plaza mall.

Firefighters and volunteers dressed as Santa made the winter season a little brighter for locals Saturday during the Christmas toy distribution.

It's not too late to pick up a Christmas tree, with at least two local tree lots planning to stay open until Christmas Eve.

A man whose white Chrysler Sebring veered off the Midway about 11:35 a.m. Thursday and struck a tree, has died at Enloe Medical Center in Chico.

The man stabbed outside of a Chico restaurant Wednesday night is expected to survive.

A Chico man in custody and awaiting sentencing for several false bomb threats allegedly struck again Tuesday with a phone call from Butte County Jail claiming a bomb was inside a Butte County office on Table Mountain Boulevard, according to Oroville police.

A former Butte College student Tuesday drew a mid-term sentence of 20 years in prison after being convicted by a jury of the repeated forcible rape of a girlfriend in Chico.

Butte County's unemployment rate for November jumped higher in the second increase this quarter, according to newly released state reports.

A worker soldering plumbing in a lower floor apartment allegedly started a fire Monday afternoon that heavily damaged two upstairs units at 1000 Columbus Ave., forcing several tenants to seek other housing.

In her letter to the editor Thursday, Mary Flynn suggests that Karen Zinniel wouldn't like it if people in the avenues weren't allowed to vote on local issues.Flynn knows full well that exact thing has beenthe casefor many years.

A proposed apartment complex in north Chico moved one step closer to construction Wednesday, with the city Architectural Review Board approving the project by an unanimous vote.

Embezzlement charges are soon to be added to the list of allegations against former cheerleader mom Toni Allexy of Paradise, whose sentencing to prison and possible sex offender registration was postponed Friday in court.