Chico Metro News

Officials for the Butte Lightning Complex fires finally got comfortable enough Friday to use the term "winding down." Updates on the incident have been cut to one per day, and on Friday it was revealed the ...

Investigators say they are convinced a wildfire that destroyed 80 homes in Northern California last month was the work of an arsonist.

Four widely separated areas of Butte County may be harboring mosquitos carrying West Nile virus.

I would like to thank you for being so good about getting fire updates and the Google map showing the fire areas.

William Kirby, 40, of Paradise, died Friday, July 11, 2008, in Oroville. Arrangements are under the direction of Paradise Chapel of the Pines, 877-4991. McVEA - Former Paradise resident Helen McVea, 92, of ...

Arson investigators said a wildfire that destroyed more than 80 homes in and around the California town of Paradise last month was intentionally set.

Increased humidity and fewer winds have given firefighters an edge in the Butte Lightning Complex fires, pushing back flames and allowing some people to return home.

Arson investigators say a wildfire that destroyed more than 80 homes in and around the town of Paradise last month was intentionally set.

Noon: Officials confirm discovery of human remains in house Human remains have been discovered in an evacuated section of Concow in a destroyed residence.

Even as residents of Big Sur, Calif., were told Wednesday the worst wildfire danger was over for them, fires surged further north, officials said.

While winds picked up marginally overnight, fire officials said they pushed flames from the Camp Fire south along the West Branch of the Feather River, and no closer to Paradise.

Mild winds are in the forecast Tuesday as firefighters continue to make gains against a wildfire burning near the Sierra Nevada foothills community of Paradise.

BIG SUR, Calif. _ Seated behind the wheel of a fire engine, Dave Breglia follows a map dotted with expensive homes threatened by wildfires.

Fire crews battling nearly 300 blazes burning across California are getting help from a pilotless plane that transmits real-time images of hot spots and flare-ups to commanders in the field.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was in southwest Paradise this morning, walking among the ashes and charred remains of homes destroyed by the Humboldt Fire in June.

Fire crews were able to prevent further loss of structures in the Concow area Wednesday, after flames from the Camp Fire consumed 40 homes and at least 10 outbuildings Tuesday.

I would like to thank all the Moms and Dads who volunteer almost every Thursday and Sunday night so I can do the sport I love the most.

Weather helps fire fight...Alaskan eruption...Bertha barely a hurricane PARADISE, Calif.

People in Concow, California, are going home for the first time since being forced out by a wildfire last week.

New evacuations were ordered in the big fire in Butte County, located just north of Sacramento, near Chico.