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A new shelter for unhoused individuals in Red Bluff is underway with hopes that construction will be completed by the end of the year. Also, the number of overdoses and deaths from illicit opioid use has increased dramatically in the U.S. over the last few years, and nearly 1 in 3 Californians say they wouldn’t get another COVID vaccine.

Butte County announced its first case of West Nile Virus this year, which is one of eight cases of the virus in the state so far. Also, this morning the city of Chico is scheduled to clear half of a large homeless encampment at Depot Park, and kids are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat days, which are expected to increase in many North State communities.

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Cultivating Place welcomes Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger, biologists, botanists, gardeners, and authors of the new book Firescaping Your Home, a manual for readiness in wildfire country – including 640 resilient native plant recommendations with a focus on native plants of California, Oregon, and Washington but widely applicable across wildfire-prone region.

The Torres Community Shelter says it's working on ways to be more accessible to those in Chico who are unhoused. Also, Shasta County officials have agreed to pay $1.5M to the family of a man who was struck and killed by a sheriff’s deputy patrol vehicle, and Stanford researchers who mapped overhead power lines across California found that lines that pose a wildfire hazard are most likely in low-income communities.

Nearly 1 in 4 Californians lack basic literacy skills, how libraries in the North State are trying to help. Also, the Oroville City Council will discuss adding new cameras to police cars at tonight’s meeting, and salmon in Butte Creek are threatened from sediment after a PG&E canal failed last week.

PG&E’s move to quietly end a program to clear dangerous trees around its power lines has caused alarm for North State prosecutors. Also, Tuesday is the last day to submit public comments on the state’s plan to spend federal funds on housing for Dixie Fire survivors, and the Chico Police Department is warning residents of a new scam hitting the community involving cryptocurrency ATMs and bitcoin.