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Clear and icy weather is forecast in the North State until another round of storms arrives Saturday. Also, a Magalia pizza restaurant stayed open despite inclement weather to continue deliveries to snowed-in customers, and the state Department of Water Resources will conduct its third snow survey of the season Friday.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted to pursue creating a pilot program voting system that uses hand-counted ballot tallies. Also, the federal government has granted people living in California counties hit hard by severe weather an extra six months to file their federal taxes, and organizations that provide health care to underserved communities worry about cuts to funding now that California’s COVID-19 emergency has ended.

In this first week of March, we kick off Women’s History Month in conversation with one of the great critical thinkers and writers of our time, Rebecca Solnit. Writer, historian, feminist, and activist, Rebecca’s long bibliography epitomizes her wide-ranging humanitarian interests—from politics to cultural geography to environmentalism and an abiding love of the earth herself.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors is set to consider how to tabulate election results after moving to cancel its contract with Dominion Voting Systems. Also, the Butte County Board of Supervisors will consider a plan to clear some evacuation routes of brush and vegetation, and California’s COVID-19 emergency declaration ends today.

Host Dave Schlom visits with environmental journalist Erica Gies about her new book, Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge. The San Francisco Bay area native chronicles the stories of "water detectives," scientific investigators trying to piece together how natural hydrologic systems functioned before human engineering disrupted them through damming, channeling and otherwise trying to control water.

The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for parts of the northern Sierra through Wednesday morning. Also, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is moving to shut down more correctional institutions, and a study from researchers at the University of California, Davis found Sierra Nevada forests are facing more extreme wildfires.

When Dave heard of the passing of one of his personal heroes, Glynn Lunney, he got on the phone to retired NASA Flight Director Gerry Griffin and they put together this special tribute episode for our Apollo@50 series. Glynn Lunney was the fourth NASA Flight Director and was integral to the space program's pioneering Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Projects. He passed away due to a bout with cancer on May 19, 2021.

Author Echo Heron is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author. Born in Troy, New York, her work tackles many genres, including fiction, mysteries, and historical fiction.

Local author and poet Joan Goodreau presents her latest work, “Where to Next?" which explores everything from the personal effects of the California wildfires to the current COVID-19 pandemic.Also, author and medical journalist Michael Castleman dives into his latest, Sizzling Sex for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Maximize Erotic Pleasure at Any Age.

The original gold rush boomtown of Sacramento boomed first as a tent city along the river’s mudflats, an area more or less defined these days by Front and J Streets, west of I-5—Old Sacramento. Then came California’s Great Flood, which inundated the entire valley for 45 days straight. Join us for more, just up the road.