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Dinner at Yankee Hill Grange benefits fire victims
Saturday people can take a late afternoon drive up Highway 70 and stop at the Yankee Hill Grange for a barbecue that will benefit fire victims.
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Hikers and nature lovers who frequent the Feather Falls area may have to find a new place to have fun this summer.
Aerial view a better perspective
Forgive Bill Connelly if he's a little on edge. Get a couple of thousand feet up in the air and it's easy to see why.
For those who really love waterfalls, the Feather Falls is one of the best you can ever visit.
From the Pulpit: City of Gold could become City of God
This may be the most important column that this preacher has written for "From the Pulpit." The month of May was the last month of long distance truck driving for this preacher.
Fire Crews Gain Ground on Canyon Complex
A total of more 15,000 acres have burned since lightning sparked the complex June 22nd.
Butte Lightning Complex 25 percent contained
The 34 fires of the Butte Lightning Complex have burned 16,000 acres and have reached 25 percent containment as of 9 a.m. this morning.
He was ... Bruuuuce in the U.S.A.
Have you ever seen The Boss live? It's one of those have-to-do-before-you-die kind of events - especially if he has the E Street Band with him to egg on the marathon of poetic, blue-collar anthems.
Fires flare up after lightning storms
Five thousand lightning strikes have started more than 20 fires throughout Butte County from Cohasset to Feather Falls.
Cal Fire-Butte County public information officer Anne McLean said new teams were coming in to relieve firefighters.
Strategy allows for merging of 2 fires
Officials said Wednesday the Rim and Empire fires, burning in the Concow area, are likely to merge, forming one larger blaze.
Butte Lightning complex 5 percent contained, but little progress reported on major fires
The Empire Fire burning north and west of Concow Reservoir was held to around 1,000 acres overnight, but the Rim Fire, burning west of Highway 70, moved toward an area south of the reservoir, prompting ...
Concow fire most critical; plenty of other blazes getting attention, too
A Cal Fire engine out of Feather Falls approaches a blaze along Rim Road in the Concow/Jarbo Gap area.
No points, no problem: Croft cashes in
The drivers participating in the 360 open winged division weren't battling for points Saturday night at Silver Dollar Speedway.
From the Pulpit: Preacher called to resume the ministry in Oroville
This may be the most important column this preacher has written for "From the Pulpit." The month of May is the last month of long-distance truck driving for this preacher.
Plumas NF: Temporary Closure of Feather Falls trailhead road
The Feather Falls Trailhead and Campground access road will be closed intermittently for approximately five weeks beginning June 16 through July 21, to widen the roadway.
Parking garage planned for casino
Feather Falls Casino & Lodge will have a ground-breaking ceremony Tuesday for construction of a new 827-space parking garage.
Wildfires Force Evacuations In Two Counties
Flaring temperatures and windy conditions are fanning several fires that have broken out including two fires that are forcing evacuations: one near Oroville and one in Pollock Pines.A fast-moving fire has ...
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Attorney General Brown Announces Mobile Meth Lab Bust In Casino Lot
“State investigators encountered a mobile methamphetamine laboratory operating right in the middle of the casino parking lot”
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that special agents in the California Department of Justice Bureau of Gambling Control and Butte County Inter-Agency Task Force have shut down a ... via Office of the California Attorney Gen...