Residents in Butte County were ordered by authorities to evacuate after a new fire erupted Wednesday. The Butte County Sheriff’s Office ordered residents east of Palermo to leave after a blaze called the Grubbs Fire erupted several miles south of the Thompson Fire, a 3,500-acre blaze that spread near Oroville and prompted more than 13,000 […]
Residents in Butte County were ordered by authorities to evacuate after a new fire erupted Wednesday. The Butte County Sheriff’s Office ordered residents east of Palermo to leave after a blaze called the Grubbs Fire erupted several miles south of the Thompson Fire, a 3,500-acre blaze that spread near Oroville and prompted more than 13,000 […]
Firefighters made progress overnight battling a fast-moving wildfire that prompted evacuations for 13,000 residents and threatened the city of Oroville after exploding to 3,000 acres amid unrelenting heat and dangerous wind gusts. The Thompson Fire, which has been burning uncontained in Butte County near Lake Oroville since 11 a.m. Tuesday, was 3,002 acres as of […]
Republic Services has scaled down its proposal to expand Coffin Butte Landfill as it attempts for a second time to win approval from the Benton County Planning Commission. The commission in 2021 unanimously denied the Phoenix-based company’s application for a conditional use permit to expand. The 178-acre landfill, north of Corvallis, takes more than half […]
A fast-growing fire prompted mandatory evacuations for dozens of structures Monday evening in Butte County, Cal Fire officials said. The Apache Fire is burning east of Palermo and was 618 acres with no containment, according to a Cal Fire update around 10 p.m. The vegetation fire sparked around 7:20 p.m. near Apache Hill Road. Cal […]
A man was shot in Palermo on Saturday after accidentally pulling into an illegal marijuana farm, the Bute County Sherrif’s Office said. BCSO dispatch received the adult victim’s call at 11 p.m., reporting he was shot. Deputies found the victim and transported him to a local hospital. He was later transferred by helicopter to an […]
Jun. 13—One of five people charged with murder in the 2022 death of a man whose body was found in Lone Butte has agreed to testify against his co-defendants as part of a plea deal. Under the agreement with prosecutors, Edgar Herrera, 32, must testify he witnessed four other men kill 26-year-old Adan Ponce-Galdeano at […]
(FOX40.COM) — The Butte County Sheriff’s Office issued an evacuation order for Concow Zone 511 on Wednesday due to a 20-acre fire in the area. Around 9:30 p.m., the evacuation order was altered to an evacuation warning by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, meaning the area is only open to residents. The affected area was […]
May 9—The Butte County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Bangor residents on Tuesday under suspicion of child endangerment after their child was found near an illegal marijuana cultivation, officials said. At approximately 10:51 p.m. on Monday, Butte County dispatch received a call from a woman that her child, 3, was missing from a residence located on […]
Dec. 26—A Lone Butte man was arrested Saturday after police claimed he fired a single shot from the doorway of his home while his girlfriend and others ran in fear. Dewayne Lee Anstey, 36, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after the incident, according to a statement of probable cause […]