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The city of Chico agreed to pay more than $40,000 in legal fees as part of the settlement in a lawsuit brought by journalist Dave Waddell.

Tona Petersen, who was displaced from Paradise due to the Camp Fire, poses for a portrait at the Comanche Creek Greenway on May 4, 2021, in Chico, Calif. The Comanche Creek Greenway is the site of an unhoused community where Chico residents are currently safe from sweeps by local police. Photo: Salgu Wissmath for The InterceptTona Petersen, who was displaced from Paradise due to the Camp Fire, poses for a portrait at the Comanche Creek Greenway on May 4, 2021, in Chico, Calif. The Comanche Creek Greenway is the site of an unhoused community where Chico residents are currently safe from sweeps...

This story was originally published by theGuardian  as part of their two-year series, This Land is Your Land, examining the threats facing America’s public lands, with support from the Society of Environmental Journalists, and is republished by permission.  Through the overhead lights from his car, the security guard saw that Stephen Vest was injured . The dark-haired 30-year-old’s left arm appeared to be bleeding as he walked out of the park just before 8 p.m. on a warm night last October. “What’s wrong? What happened? What can I do to help?” the guard asked Vest from his car...

Vest was one of thousands who had nowhere to live following the Camp fire. Sparked by faulty equipment on an electricity transmission line, the blaze led to the deaths of 85 people and destroyed much of the town. At its peak the disaster displaced over 50,000 people from their perch in the Sierra Nevada foothills, but once the flames were extinguished, another crisis began to unfold. The fire had wiped out almost 14,000 homes in a county with an already limited housing stock. Chico, the mid-sized valley town 10 miles down the road, was reshaped by the fire, and grew by more than 10,000 people...

He survived California’s deadliest wildfire. But not his encounter with police Dani Anguiano in Paradise, California and Alastair Gee Through the overhead lights from his car, the security guard saw that Stephen Vest was injured . The dark-haired 30-year-old’s left arm appeared to be bleeding as he walked out of the park just before 8pm on a warm night last October. “What’s wrong? What happened? What can I do to help?” the guard asked Vest from his car. That evening at the park in Chico, a college town of 110,000 in the far north of California, people played tennis a...