What every North State resident should know before fire season. Learn how to sign up for county emergency alerts, find your evacuation zone map and stay connected during wildfire season across the region.

Short headlines and local updates from across the North State and California.
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Host Dave Schlom is joined by Sam Davidson from Trout Unlimited and Brandy McDaniels from the Pit River Nation for an in-depth look at the newly designated Sáttítla Highlands National Monument.
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The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Friday, July 11, 2025.
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A fatal shooting at Chico’s alternative homeless site has renewed scrutiny of the city’s management — just as a key committee meeting was abruptly canceled.
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This week on Cultivating Place, you are in for a real summer adventure on a global garden armchair tour of sorts with a plantswoman who has studied and gardened at some of the Western world’s best from Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and Monk’s House in the UK to Sparoza in Greece.
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The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Thursday, July 10, 2025.
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To learn more about these poets, click on their names.
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Redding author Kelly Ramsey recounts the two years she spent as a member of a hotshot wildfire-fighting crew.
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The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
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A man was shot and killed Monday night at Chico’s alternate homeless campsite on Eaton Road. Police say the homicide appears to be an isolated incident and are asking for the public’s help.
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The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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Jane Ragsdale ran the Heart O' the Hills camp for girls in Kerr County. The camp was between sessions when the deluge hit. The only person killed there was Ragsdale.
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Civil rights groups alleged that ICE and Border Patrol agents are rounding people up based on their race, and denying them access to lawyers. A federal judge said there's evidence what they're doing is illegal.
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David Gergen worked in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as a speechwriter, communications director and counselor to the president, among other roles.
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This summer marks the seventh season of the USA spinoff of Love Island. Why has this one caught fire in a way that previous seasons haven't?
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In Syria, it's been more than six months since Bashar al-Assad's regime was toppled by opposition fighters after decades in power and years of civil war.
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A freelance reporter in London tries to sell his boyhood stamp collection and takes a journey through memory and vanished nations.
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