Three months after Chico’s 156-year-old Bidwell Mansion was deliberately set ablaze, 30-year-old Kevin Andrew Carlson was ...

Years of recovery lie ahead for what’s left of Bidwell Mansion as the historic Chico estate remains fenced off and hollowed ...

Carlson, 30, was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in state prison — the maximum penalty for felony arson — after admitting to ...

Proposition 36 toughened penalties which could have added 15 years to Kevin Carlson’s sentence — if his crime had occurred a ...

A judge sentenced Kevin Carlson to 11 years for setting fire to Bidwell Mansion. He's also ordered to pay over $37 million in ...

A former Bidwell Mansion tour guide presented a 90-minute talk titled “John Bidwell’s Involvement in U.S. and California ...

Kevin Alexander Carlson, sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in state prison for his arson Bidwell Mansion, stated he was ...

Butte County Superior Court Judge Corie Caraway also ordered him to pay $37.4 million in restitution to California State Parks, with 10% interest accruing from the date of the arson. John Bidwell ...

OROVILLE — The Chico man responsible for setting fire to Bidwell Mansion was sentenced to state prison Wednesday at the Butte County Superior Courthouse. Kevin Alexander Carlson, 30, of Chico ...

Contractors are working to replace the chainlink around the ruins of the Bidwell Mansion with something more secure and ...

By the time reports of the fire came in at 3:16 a.m., the mansion had been fully engulfed in flames. Its remnants smoldered on the edge of Chico State’s campus throughout the day as fire ...

John Bidwell, Chico’s founder and a general in the Mexican-American War, lived in the Bidwell Mansion with his wife Annie from 1868 to 1900. The 26-room estate, recognized for its early ...