Camille Von Kaenel

An angler casts his line as he fly fishes Jan. 9 in the Feather River in Oroville. The California Fish and Game Commission will hold a teleconference meeting on Thursday morning to discuss giving Charlton Bonham, the director of the Department of Fish and Wildlife, emergency powers to alter fishing regulations through the end of May. (Matt Bates — Enterprise-Record)

California Fish and Wildlife considers restricting fishing to limit coronavirus

April 9, 2020 at 9:40 a.m.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife could soon take emergency action to suspend, restrict or delay recreational and sport fishing in some areas to avoid spreading the coronavirus, especially...

Heidi Parr creates prototypes of face masks in Cathy's Sew and Vac on Monday in Chico. (Carin Dorghalli -- Enterprise-Record)

Sewers organize home-made face masks to fight COVID-19

March 26, 2020 at 6:34 a.m.

Sewers are organizing to make and repair face masks themselves amid national shortages as the outbreak of COVID-19 strains the health care system.

Fire burns near PG&E transmission towers, November 12, east Pulga. The first report of the deadly Camp Fire was made near another tower on this line. (Karl Mondon — Bay Area News Group file)

Utilities commission increases penalties against PG&E to $2.1 billion

February 28, 2020 at 9:10 a.m.

The California Public Utilities Commission announced on Thursday that it would impose $2 billion in penalties against Pacific Gas and Electric Corp. -- 27 percent more than the settlement the...

Apple Tree Village shows the fickle nature of the Camp Fire’s destructive path in this Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 aerial photograph taken in Paradise. (Karl Mondon — Bay Area News Group file)

California lawmakers propose to ban FEMA from asking fire victims for money back

February 26, 2020 at 8:35 a.m.

North state lawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress to prevent the Federal Emergency Management Agency from asking disaster victims to return financial assistance if the agency makes an error.

Tax credits worth $100M for fire recovery have pitted California’s affected counties against each other

February 22, 2020 at 6:26 a.m.

Butte County officials and housing developers are concerned they may not be able to make full use of a special category of federal tax credit designed to finance housing projects...

A ground level view of a grassy field Wednesday on the corner of Humboldt Road and Notre Dame Boulevard in Chico. The land is where the Chico Housing Improvement Project is proposing to build its new Creekside Place development. (Matt Bates — Enterprise-Record)

Tax credits worth $100M for fire recovery have pitted California’s affected counties against each other

February 21, 2020 at 12:14 p.m.

Federal tax credits worth $100m were supposed to go towards fire recovery. Lawmakers are fighting for Butte County projects to be eligible.

Tammie Strong talks Jan. 29 about steps she is taking to move forward, like moving in to her tiny house, after losing her son shortly after the Camp Fire to injuries she believes were tied to the evacuation. (Carin Dorghalli — Enterprise-Record)

Families mourn indirect, ‘forgotten’ deaths from Camp Fire

February 11, 2020 at 11:03 a.m.

PARADISE -- Donovan James Iverson's family says he died because of the Camp Fire. But he does not appear in the only official accounting of the disaster’s victims, the Butte...

The worker camp at Tuscan Ridge is seen Wednesday in Paradise. (Matt Bates -- Enterpise-Record)

State contracts for worker camps run out

January 31, 2020 at 6:39 a.m.

PARADISE — Plans for the future of the housing sites set up for Camp Fire debris removal workers are hazy ahead of a Friday deadline. The state of California helped...

Mobile home parks struggling to come back

December 31, 2019 at 6:32 a.m.

PARADISE — When the Camp Fire tore through Quail Trails Village, one of the largest RV and mobile home parks in the area, it destroyed 104 homes and spared just...

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