Butte County News

A California Court of Appeal handed down a ruling Wednesday in favor of a Butte County man ordered to destroy several marijuana plants he grew on his property as part of a medical marijuana collective to which he belonged.

Although the state law banning drivers from talking on their cell phones without a hands-free device has been in effect for one year, it seems the regulation is doing little to deter drivers from chatting while commuting.

Flames sparked by a lawn mower and fueled by Monday's triple-digit temperatures and strong south winds destroyed a home and scorched almost 50 acres in the Palermo area.

The final installment of federal stimulus dollars will be flowing to local school districts soon, though district officials said Butte and Glenn county schools are still in a precarious financial situation.

Local fire safety experts will be hosting interactive workshops throughout Butte County on four Saturdays starting in July to help residents create a fire safe plan for their property.

A man who allegedly used an SUV in an attempted to run over an anti-abortion protester Wednesday outside of the Planned Parenthood office has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

For the second straight year, the lack of fire evacuation routes in Paradise and the Upper Ridge have caused extreme concern for the Butte County Grand Jury, which investigated the matter in their 2008-09 report issued Friday.

Unexpected plea bargains were struck Thursday, resolving criminal charges against all but one person in a 13-co-defendant Butte County medical marijuana case.

Though in some places residents complain their neighborhoods have gone to the dogs, one Oroville neighborhood has certainly gone to the birds.

A lone bus rider advocate spoke Thursday before a Butte Regional Transit fare hike was unanimously approved.

Prosecutors Wednesday tried to show a link between a series of allegedly illegal medical marijuana gardens in Butte County.

On Monday they were racing around in cop cars making felony stops. Tuesday had them manning fire hoses.

The California Contractors State License Board investigators nabbed one of the most notorious unlicensed transient contractors shortly after he began working again in California.

In a time when California workers are being laid off and searching for new job skills, they are coming up against an added burden: reduced technical training and higher class fees due to the state's fiscal crisis.

Twenty fires ignited along Forbestown Road Monday afternoon, after an alleged drunken driver crashed his truck into a guardrail and continued to drive down the roadway on only three intact wheels, sparking numerous fires in his trail.

High above the traffic of Highway 70, the hustle and bustle of downtown Oroville and the daily comings and goings of thousands of Butte County residents, a landmark that often goes unnoticed silently celebrates its 80th birthday this month.

Depending on the county, unemployment rates in the area both rose and fell from April to May, according to the California Employment Development Department figures.

For a moment, it looked like federal stimulus money might bail out the tiny Buzztail water district in the hills east of Chico.

Almost before the embers cooled after last year's nearly two-month-long fire siege, Butte County's civilian authorities began a detailed review of what happened, what worked, what didn't and what should be changed in the future.

Exactly one week after a lawn mower started a blaze in the Lemon Hill area of Oroville, an individual completing brush work Monday afternoon likely sparked a blaze that burned five acres near Bangor.