Like hundreds of thousands of people in the North State, Kiyomi Bird vividly remembers how she spent the night of Feb. 12.

Bird, director for the Community Health and Sciences division of the Butte County Public Health Department, got word in the afternoon that public safety authorities might call for an evacuation south of Oroville Dam. With the main spillway and emergency spillway damaged, Lake Oroville had reached a critically high level that threatened flooding of low-lying areas. (Chico News & Review)

Officials from all five Butte County cities and county government got a glimpse of the large, ongoing efforts to address homelessness Friday.

At the end of the countywide summit on homelessness at the Southside Oroville Community Center, county Chief Administrative Officer Paul Hahn said the issue was great, but there was a tremendous amount of money, resources and people dedicated to addressing it. He joined others in taking encouragement that leaders from the county’s local governments were in attendance.  (ChicoER News)