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.

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.

This week, a Best OF episode revisiting our conversation with Maria Popova, the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings).

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.

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.

Author Raymond H. McDonald sits with Nancy's Bookshelf to speak about his tribute to his lifelong friend, Merle Haggard.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Protests continue in the Armenian capital Yerevan after the collapse of the breakaway government of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The annual butterfly migration is underway. For decades scientists have relied on volunteers to tag butterflies to provide details about their journey.

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.

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.