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The city of Chico has named a temporary replacement for the city’s outgoing police chief. Also, small and rural schools in the North State are facing staffing challenges, and California is facing a prolonged late-summer heat wave this week.

Host Dave Schlom checks out the findings from a new NASA instrument flying aboard the International Space Station called ECOSTRESS.

Chico’s cooling center moved this week to accommodate more people. Also, auto club AAA expects an increase in roadside service calls as travelers hit the road for the holiday weekend, and a controversial vaccination-consent bill was pulled before a vote in the California Legislature.

Republican Assemblyman Kevin Kiley is running to represent California’s newly redrawn 3rd Congressional District. Also, two candidate forums for races in the North State are scheduled for Thursday, and the Paradise Genealogical Society is celebrating its reopening.

Author Phil Elkins shares stories from his time in Vietnam.

This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with a fall/winter planning and planting this time with a focus on design, in conversation with Nick and Allison McCullough – of McCullough landscape & Nursery, a design, build, and maintenance firm based in New Albany, Ohio.

Host Dave Schlom visits with Oxford University climate scientist Tim Woollings about his book, Jet Stream: a Journey through our Changing Climate.

State regulators propose fining PG&E more than $155 million for the 2020 Zogg Fire in Shasta County. Also, a Chico State virologist spoke with NSPR about the potential for a severe flu season this year, and California voters this fall are deciding whether to retain several state Supreme Court justices.

It is a season of gathering, collection, and reflection, and Cultivating Place is in conversation this week with an artist and a green spirit in our garden care world, Louesa Roebuck, about her newest book Punk Ikebana: Reimagining the Art of Floral Design (gathering, gleaning & composing in situ), being published by Cameron books on November 8.

A program in Shasta County is targeting rising rates of congenital syphilis. Also, a report found 90% of children in the U.S. experienced frequent heat waves in 2020, and Proposition 31 on the November ballot asks voters if they want a flavored tobacco ban to go into effect.