The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026.

Redding physician Bruce Bartlow is committed to narrative medicine and the spiritual dimensions of illness.

A new program at Chico State aims to address teacher shortages across the North State by paying aspiring elementary school teachers while they earn their credentials.

Parts of Butte, Shasta, Tehama and Plumas counties could face safety shutoffs due to gusty winds and dry conditions, according to the utility.

A Camp Fire survivor said the memorial will be a place to hold grief that can be “invisible and unrecognized.”

Reports of immigration enforcement in Chico have "not been verified," the university said in an email.

Shasta and Tehama counties face the largest potential shutoffs. See if you’re affected.

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Mark Shelhamer, former Chief Scientist of the Human Research Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and current director of the Johns Hopkins Human Spaceflight Laboratory in Maryland.

Here’s what’s happening in the Chico area from October 8 to October 11.

For the next conversation in our intermittent series on what regenerative cultivation looks like in our world-at many levels, Cultivating Place is speaking this week with Dr. Garrett Liles, cofounder and faculty affiliate of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at California State University, Chico.