Jamie Jiang
ReporterJamie is NSPR’s wildfire reporter and Report For America corps member. She covers all things fire, but her main focus is wildfire recovery in the North State. Before NSPR, Jamie was at UCLA, where she dabbled in college radio and briefly worked as podcast editor at the Daily Bruin.
She also worked as a news intern at KCUR — Kansas City’s NPR affiliate station — where she reported on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Jamie uses community engagement journalism to tell the stories of real people actually living with wildfires. She asks listeners to please send pitches, feedback, and suggestions her way.
Email: jamie.jiang@mynspr.org
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As more homes in California are built in areas at high risk for wildfire, new research shows that disclosing wildfire risk potential to homebuyers lowers home sale prices. Also, the Chico City Council voted to approve the city budget including a 20% raise for the city’s police department, and a building was vandalized with homophobic hate speech in Susanville on the first day of Pride Month, now the community is coming together to fight hate. -
Members of the Chico Police Department may get a 20% raise as the city council prepares to vote on a new budget today. Also, the town of Paradise will coordinate an emergency exercise on June 15 to simulate response actions during a wildfire or other disaster, and officials are investigating whether Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis was behind a flight that picked up asylum-seekers on the Texas border and flew them to California’s capital.
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A Shasta County Superior Court judge has ruled the county must turn over documents requested by the Redding Record Searchlight in 2021. Also, excess snowpack from the winter might stick around longer than usual and help reduce severe wildfire risks in higher elevations, but not lower ones, and the Susanville Indian Rancheria received funding last week to clean up contaminated land.
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A new report shows more frequent fire weather days in the North State. Also, Chico State will soon have a new president, and Oroville may soon be designated a 'rural city.'
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Do you have a go bag packed? Share what’s in it using our go bag survey, or contact NSPR's Jamie Jiang at jamie.jiang@mynspr.org.
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PG&E begins undergrounding power lines in Plumas. Also, the University of California is moving to allow the hiring of undocumented students, and a proposed deal to reduce water use from the Colorado River.
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As the North State begins to heat up, a study from the nonprofit Climate Central found an increase in dangerously hot days at more than 200 locations throughout the United States, including the city of Chico.
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Chico police identify a third suspect in mass shooting. Also, Governor Gavin Newsom wants to speed up construction with a permit reform package, and what this month's earthquake means for the North State.
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The Chico Police Department and Butte County District Attorney updated the public on Friday afternoon on the mass shooting that took place in the early hours of May 6.
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Chico sees rise in 'risky heat days.' Also, residents of a Sacramento encampment are struggling with the heat, and a bill that would require anti-overdose medicine in public spaces died in the California Legislature.
