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    25 years of Denim Day

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    Title IX: The state of sexual assault and harassment at Chico State

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    Chico State baseball walks it off to split series against Monterey Bay

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The Orion

Chico State's independent student newspaper

The Orion

Chico State's independent student newspaper

The Orion

University Police Department located on the corner of Chestnut St and W Second St. Photo credit: Angelina Mendez

University remains confident in police chief after involvement in racial discrimination lawsuit

Melvin Bui, Contributor // March 23, 2023

The Orion reported in spring 2022 that Interim Chief of Police Christopher Nicodemus was mentioned in a civil lawsuit against the City of Oroville, disrupting the search for a permanent chief for which...

Update: 2 Chico State police officers at center of Oroville Police sexual misconduct lawsuit put on leave

Update: 2 Chico State police officers at center of Oroville Police sexual misconduct lawsuit put on leave

Ava Norgrove and Melvin Bui // March 24, 2022

Chico State University Police Sgt. Joseph Deal and officer Raymond Stott have been accused of inappropriate sexual and police misconduct during their tenure at the Oroville Police Department, according...

Pacific Gas and Electric leave Butte County in the dark

Pacific Gas and Electric leave Butte County in the dark

Kimberly Morales // November 7, 2019

Through this past year, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the largest electricity and gas provider in California, has been in Butte County's spotlight. For the past year, cities across the county have...

Oroville to sue the states water department after damages to the Oroville dam and spillway due to flooding in February. Image courtesy of Department of Water Resources.

Oroville to sue state department for dam failure

Josh Cozine // January 21, 2018

The city of Oroville filed suit against the Department of Water Resources (DWR) for damages, mismanagement and corruption Wednesday. The DWR failed to pay an appropriate amount after the failure of...

Photo credit: Madison Holmes

FBI vs. Apple: Privacy concerns without concern

Sean Daly // April 27, 2016
Multiple lawsuits dropped by the FBI against Apple have followed their discovery of how to hack into information stored on iPhone devices. This conflict rages between two groups who say they want what's best for citizens, but really don't.
Chico State files lawsuit against PG&E

Chico State files lawsuit against PG&E

Ernesto Rivera // May 2, 2014
The university is hoping to regain $2,369,000 after it cleaned up toxic soil it claims came from a PG&E-owned gas manufacturing plant.
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