A recently released best-selling book “Lone Survivor,” tells the story of the last desperate battle of Matt Axelson, a Navy SEAL and Chico resident, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. The book was ...

True-to-life war movies - such as "Black Hawk Down" and "Saving Private Ryan" - that attempt to capture the grit and chaos of combat can be hard to watch. And they are undoubtedly hardest of all for ...

CHICO >> Inspired by the ultimate sacrifice of a local man and his SEAL team, a group of Chico firefighters have set out to complete and organize a grueling workout to benefit the Matthew ...

Cupertino, a Silicon Valley city that has long had a Memorial Park that didn’t include a memorial, will be unveiling a statue of a Chico man who was killed while serving as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan.

YUBA CITY (CBS13) — A Northern California man on a special ops mission to find a terrorist leader with ties to the Taliban never made it back home alive. Cindy Axelson got a call from her husband, ...

Navy file photo of Navy SEALs operating in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. From left to right, Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson, of Cupertino, Calif; ...

Donna Axelson was watering flowers in the front yard of her Cupertino home one summer day when she noticed two men dressed in Navy blues walking up the front path to her house. “So I went over to them ...

Eleven is the magic number for this year’s Veterans Day ceremony in Cupertino. It will be the 11th consecutive event held at Memorial Park on Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. Residents are invited to attend the ...

A recently released best-selling book “Lone Survivor,” tells the story of the last desperate battle of Matt Axelson, a Navy SEAL and Chico resident, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005. The book was ...