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The controversial Tuscan Water District is up for vote at today’s Butte County Board of Supervisors meeting; it will determine if a special election to create the district will be put to voters in December. Also, Lassen College has the lowest student transfer rate of any community college in the state, and Burney has been under a boil water advisory for nearly two weeks after E. coli was found in the community’s drinking water distribution system.

Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded in 1952 on the shores of Lake Wonona in Madison, Wisconsin.

Covered California yesterday announced rate hikes, signaling that runaway health care costs are back after five years of low premium increases. Also, yesterday marked five years since the Carr Fire entered the city of Redding, and a San Francisco company is hoping to install a solar farm on more than 20 acres northeast of Bangor in Butte County.

Host Dave Schlom visits with two-time World Series champion and four-time MLB All-Star Hunter Pence about the nonprofit organization he and his wife Alexis have founded: Healthy Planet Project.

Shasta County officials are yet again seeking delays in releasing reports and documents to the Redding Record Searchlight. Also, this week marked five years since the Carr Fire and numbers show survivors in rural Shasta County are rebuilding more slowly than those in Redding, and goats are back in Chico grazing on invasive plants in Middle Bidwell Park.

The Chico City Council voted to approve another year of ice skating in the city’s downtown plaza. Also, property owners in Paradise now have one less bill to worry about after Cal Fire awarded the town nearly $2.5 million to help remove hazardous trees after the Camp Fire, and a Caldor Fire survivor is helping others in the burn scar file claims for damages against the federal government.

The California Department of Justice is investigating Butte County for potentially violating state voting laws. Also, Plumas County will use juvenile detention centers in Butte County after California turned responsibility to detaining youths over to local governments, and this summer marks the 59th year the Yurok Tribe is holding its Klamath Salmon Festival. But this year, there won’t be any salmon served because of low salmon stocks.

Sam Hoadley, the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation center and one of the country’s leading research and trial gardens for native plant species, is joining us this week.

Host Dave Schlom investigates two of the components that make up most of the universe -- dark matter and dark energy.

A new political group of concerned residents called Groundwater for Butte is protesting the Tuscan Water District which would encompass about 100,000 acres between Chico and Durham. Also, new data shows that 225,000 Californians assessed in June were dropped from MediCal, and temperatures will soar to 110 in Chico today and 113 in Redding.