Butte County News

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has presented preliminary flood risk maps to communities in Butte County, Calif.

Health officials in Butte County are reporting their first death linked to the H1N1 virus .

Mohammed AlsaifAll Chico E-R photos are available here. Here are several people being sought by Butte County law enforcement agencies: Andrea Carolyn Maestas The Butte County Sheriff's Office is seeking Andrea Carolyn Maestas for felony warrants charging her with failing to appear, violation of probation and two counts of burglary.

A 65-year-old man from the Paradise area has become Butte County's first confirmed death from the H1N1 swine flu.

A five-year-old girl was flown to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento Wednesday after being ejected from a car that rolled over on Highway 70.

A man suspected of vandalizing eight Amtrak passenger train cars with a substantial amount of graffiti has been arrested by Chico police.

Scott Tandy of Moraga was today named interim chief administrative officer for Butte County, after a closed door session of the Board of Supervisors.

Mark Lundberg, the health officer of Butte County, faces a swine flu dilemma. His department has some vaccine and has scheduled a series of vaccination clinics at local schools.

When a Palermo woman went out to feed her sheep early Saturday morning, she found them lying in the pasture in pools of blood, and she saw five dogs running away.

A parolee Tuesday was returned to prison for a term of 41-years-to-life in connection with an attempted murder in Chico.

A forked-horn buck lies dead along the side of Highway 32, near Nord-Cana Highway, after it was hit by a van and a car on Tuesday.

Butte County sheriff's Capt. Jerry Smith hasn't been appointed to replace retiring Sheriff Perry Reniff, but he is going to be.

Included among the thousands of American flags that will fly over Butte County today for Veterans Day will be the one on the flag pole in Lloyd Andes' front yard.

Butte College is providing an education to some distant travelers - a delegation of college leaders from China.

Major changes to Paradise Fire Department will be discussed at Tuesday night's Paradise Town Council meeting.

Butte County Historical Society will hold a program concerning the history of the Bangor community and its historic Bangor Church on Nov.

A 41-year old Paradise man believed to be under the influence of methamphetamine was arrested early Friday morning when police officers found 10 pounds of marijuana and a loaded firearm in his home.

A 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday in what the Butte County Sheriff's Office is calling the attempted murder of a man in Forbestown Park.

On the Farm City Bus Tour Wednesday, Rich McGowan talks about how he waters his French prune orchard.

Cal Fire-Butte County said a blaze that broke out above Lake Madrone on Galen Ridge Road Thursday night has been contained.