Butte County News

For youngsters throughout Butte County, there will be plenty of fish swimming and waiting to be caught at a special event in Oroville on Saturday.

When it was determined the B-29s could not use the airfields at Kunming or Luliang because of the altitude, they were moved north to Chengdu, in Sichuan province, where four airfields were built at a lower altitude .

Measure A would limit the number of medical marijuana plants grown in backyards based on property size.

Photographer Russell Lee, on assignment for the Farm Security Administration, captured theShasta Dam under construction in 1942.

Two controlled burns people thought they had extinguished re-ignited Wednesday afternoon, threatening a home in Cohasset and sending up a plume of black smoke in Durham.

A 34-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to four years, eight months in state prison for criminal threats in a kidnapping case and a jail fight.

Public safety officers were hoping the number of driving under the influence arrests would have gone down this Memorial Day weekend, but they didn't. Butte County law enforcement agencies again arrested 24 people for the holiday weekend from Friday through Monday, including one man for an alleged drunken driving crash that killed his brother, said ... (more)

The larger fire has burned about 3.5 acres in the Cohasset area northeast of Chico at Vilas Road & Ponderosa Way.

Considering what you're drinking is a main ingredient to a healthy lifestyle, but it's also a part that is easily overlooked.

A Butte County man has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars following a double shooting in Berry Creek.

Butte County authorities say a jail inmate is in stable condition, after he was found hanging in his cell.

Money has been allocated to place traffic lights at the intersection of Highway 99 and Neal Road, south of Chico.

One of California's more vociferous battles over marijuana was already simmering in the upper Central Valley when an audiotape of a howling, hysterical mother went viral.

The state expects Butte County's population to grow about 11,000 between 2010 and 2015, even though it grew by less than 1,300 people in the first two years of that period.

Plans for a new courthouse in South Chico are in limbo because of state budget problems.

Most of the numbers are in from a DUI checkpoint and special patrol that began Friday and continued through Sunday in Butte County.

Arron R. Clark, a Chico soldier killed in Iraq in 2003, will be honored during a ceremony at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Community Park, 1900 Martin Luther King Jr.

Many species of animals were present at Saturday's Silver Dollar Fair, but of them all, the swine took the spotlight.

When students graduate from schools in Butte and Glenn counties over the next two years, teachers, courses and athletic programs may be leaving with them.

A small private plane landing at Fresno Yosemite International Airport sustained minor damage when its nose gear collasped this afternoon, an airport spokeswoman said.