The 156-year-old Bidwell Mansion, a Victorian gem in Chico, was reduced to ruins by a devastating fire on Dec. 11, 2024. Tuesday, officials confirmed the blaze was an act of arson, launching an ...

The debris removal at the Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park was originally slated for late June of 2025, following its ...

Three months after Chico’s 156-year-old Bidwell Mansion was deliberately set ablaze, 30-year-old Kevin Andrew Carlson was sentenced Wednesday to the maximum 11 years in state prison for ...

Firefighters attempt to extinguish a blaze at the Bidwell Mansion, a California State Historic Park building in Chico, before dawn on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Chico Fire Department ...

The historic Bidwell Mansion was originally built in the 1860s and, at the time of the fire, was undergoing renovations that the California State Parks said were almost complete. A fundraiser to ...

Kevin Alexander Carlson, seen in a jail booking photo, was charged Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, with arson in connection with the Dec. 11, 2024, fire that gutted Chico’s Bidwell Mansion.

Kevin Alexander Carlson, seen in a jail booking photo, was charged Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, with arson in connection with the Dec. 11, 2024, fire that gutted Chico’s Bidwell Mansion.

A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting a fire that ravaged the Bidwell Mansion, an iconic landmark in Chico and the former home of the city's founder.

A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting a fire that ravaged the Bidwell Mansion, an iconic landmark in Chico and the former home of the city's founder.