PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoffs were a much more frequent occurrence when they started about five years ago. This year, the company has only turned off power twice.
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How to fund the county’s libraries is back in discussion in Butte County. The county board of supervisors approved a contract with consultants to determine voters’ interest in a possible future library tax.
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House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer said the hearing will examine the value of an impeachment inquiry and evidence against President Biden.
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This week, a Best OF episode revisiting our conversation with Maria Popova, the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings).
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The city of Chico's Pallet shelter site for unhoused residents opened in April 2022. NSPR looked into the number of people the site has housed in nearly a year and a half. Also, the Butte County Board of Supervisors voted this week to explore a possible tax to fund the county’s libraries, and a controlled burn will take place in the Red Bluff Recreation Area on Friday for the first time in almost 10 years.
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Three years ago today (Sept. 27), the Zogg Fire was ignited, burning down more than 200 homes and killing four people in rural Shasta County.
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Author Raymond H. McDonald sits with Nancy's Bookshelf to speak about his tribute to his lifelong friend, Merle Haggard.
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Several settlements were approved this year in connection with the Zogg Fire, which ignited three years ago today. Also, the threshold of signatures to hold a recall election for Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye has been reached, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Monday to prevent school boards from banning textbooks based solely on a books’ coverage of race, sexual orientation or gender identities.
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New law will impose an additional 11% in addition to federal tax. It's one of nearly two dozen gun laws signed into law on Tuesday. but Newsom acknowledges some might not survive legal challenges.
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Black holes may contain the masses of more than a billion suns, but they also hold a few lessons that we humans can apply to everyday life.
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Federal workers across the country are bracing to lose pay indefinitely. Many have weathered shutdowns before and some face losing income at particularly inconvenient times in their lives.
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Protests continue in the Armenian capital Yerevan after the collapse of the breakaway government of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The annual butterfly migration is underway. For decades scientists have relied on volunteers to tag butterflies to provide details about their journey.
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The new film THE CREATOR takes place in a future war raging between humans and AI. Director Gareth Edwards says he wrote the film when technology was viewed in a much more positive light.
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Heavy rains closed roads and flooded subways in New York City today. New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in several counties in the metro area.