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A new support group for Camp Fire survivors met last week as mental health counseling resources remain scarce in the burn scar. Also, Chico starts a ‘kiosk concierge’ program after complaints from downtown businesses and visitors about new smart meters, and lawmakers in California continue to struggle to regulate so-called crisis pregnancy centers that abortion advocates say mislead women seeking abortion care.

A new report says California will have a smaller almond crop this year. Also, dozens of bills are in limbo, and California is experimenting with guaranteed income pilot programs.

This week, Cultivating Place kicks off a several-part series looking into the state of seed, specifically wildland seed, for conservation and ecological restoration in our world from various perspectives.

Organizers of a petition to recall Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye can begin gathering signatures today. Also, California lawmakers are debating extending a law to make it easier for more law enforcement officers and firefighters to receive workers’ compensation for job-related PTSD, and a new bill would require California cities to provide shelter for unhoused residents.

Defensible space inspections began taking place in Butte County’s Upper Ridge and in other parts of the North State this month. Also, environmental groups and tribes push for protecting Northern California’s Molok Luyuk, and California officials plan to spend $60 million to help threatened fish species in the Yuba River.

Chico State is offering mental health support to students in the wake of this weekend’s deadly shooting. Also, a recent study done in conjunction with the town of Paradise sheds light on reducing wildfire risk, and seventeen-year-olds in California would get the right to vote under a proposal making its way through the state Legislature.

Host Dave Schlom sets his sites on some cosmic mysteries -- the physics of black holes and the latest discovery of a cluster of galaxies closer to the birth of the universe than any yet detected.

Beginning this year, California’s homeowners have a new wildfire safety standard to meet. Also, Gov. Gavin Newsom is currently presenting his $306.5 billion spending plan which includes filling the deficit, and that plan includes cuts to the state's climate commitments.

Dr. James E. Cottrell expands on the fears and importance of getting surgery.

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