top 3 largest in California history.” The Park Fire was first reported Wednesday afternoon on the eastern edge of Bidwell Park in Chico, a college town 90 miles north of Sacramento. Maps from ...

My name is Brian Hu, and I’m a senior in high school. I’ve lived in Chico for almost nine years, and although I also have resided in three other cities, I’m proud to say that I would call no place ...

Multiple fires are still blazing through California, with folks in Butte and ... This blaze, near Upper Bidwell Park, east of ...

The mansion on the Esplanade was a Chico touchstone, a stately gateway to its downtown university campus and a living link to California’s early years. Gone now, charred beyond repair ...

Wildfires are an ever-present threat in California, particularly in urban areas like Chico and Redding, where the boundary between city and wilderness is often blurred.