SF Politics Oroville Declares Itself a ‘Non-Sanctuary City’ In Symbolic Political Move The mostly white Butte County city of Oroville has few if any undocumented immigrants, but declared itself a “non-sanctuary city” in a move that just seems intended to irk Gavin Newsom and please Donald Trump.
SF News Kindergartner Believed Paralyzed In Butte County School Shooting Has Just Shown Movement In His Feet Five-year-old Elias Wolford was shot in the December 4 Oroville school shooting, and has had no movement in his legs since. But on New Year’s Eve, his family announced he was able to wiggle his foot, indicating his legs may eventually recover.
SF News Oroville School Shooter Identified as Chronically Homeless Man With Mental Health Issues, Criminal History The man who allegedly shot up a parochial school in Butte County Wednesday before taking his own life was known to law enforcement in the Chico area from some petty crimes two decades ago, and was reportedly homeless.
SF News Authorities Say Religious School Targeted, But Not Specific Children, In Oroville Shooting That Injured Two All Seventh-Day Adventist schools in the Bay Area are closed Thursday after a Wednesday shooting in Butte County that appears to have targeted one small school associated with the denomination.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Children Injured In Shooting at Oroville School A shooting at a parochial school in Oroville injured two students; a Bay Area mountain guide appears to be missing in New Zealand; and Day One of deliberations in the Nima Momeni trial ended without a verdict.
SF News Fast-Growing Thompson Fire Threatens Oroville, Prompts 28,000 Evacuations A wildfire that began Tuesday morning has grown to over 3,000 acres and is threatening the town of Oroville as it burns up to the edges of California's second-largest reservoir.
SF News Oroville Nine-Year-Old Swipes Mom’s Car, Rams It Into Highway Patrol Cruiser A nine-year-old in Oroville took the liberty of grabbing his mom’s car keys and driving her car to school, but things ended poorly for the youngster when he ended up in a chase with a Highway Patrol car, which he then rammed into.
SF News Winter Storms Rekindle Fears That Oroville Dam Could Burst Over, With Catastrophic Consequences It’s hard to get one’s head around the magnitude of calamity if the tallest dam in the U.S. were to overtop. But that almost happened to the Oroville Dam in 2017, and this year’s epic storms have engineers on edge that the dam could indeed break.
SF Politics Butte County Town of Oroville Declares Itself a ‘Constitutional Republic’ in the Latest Anti-Vaccine Tantrum The city council of a small town north of Sacramento is making a big stink that they don’t have to follow vaccine mandates, though the mayor backing the measure admits the resolution “doesn’t change anything.”
SF News Day Around The Bay: Wildfire Near Oroville Burns 17 Structures #WallFire near Oroville is 35% contained after destroying 17 structures. https://t.co/WqQ0JKFAuw pic.twitter.com/CvtI5Df2Nj— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) July 10, 2017 A wildfire near Oroville, dubbed the Wall Fire, is 35
SF News Video: Pregnant Woman Lost In National Forest Gives Birth, Fights Placenta-Seeking 'Meat Bees,' Starts Forest Fire, Is Rescued In what already smells like a best-seller, today we learn of a 9-months pregnant Oroville woman who spent four days stranded in the Plumas National Forest. During that time, she went into labor,
