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The Plumas County Board of Supervisors will vote tomorrow on a measure that would make building homes for fire survivors easier and cheaper. Also, a mosquito-borne disease called St. Louis encephalitis virus has been detected in Shasta County for the first time in 50 years, and more than 1,600 residents of Greenville and Crescent Mills will be without power today and tomorrow.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors is facing a potential lawsuit for illegally imposing fines on public record access. This is from the First Amendment Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union, alongside local news outlets Redding Record Searchlight and Shasta Scout. Also, more than 1,000 Tehama County residents are without power this morning after PG&E shut offs due to critical fire weather conditions, and the Chico Police Department is warning residents about a new phone scam.

The tables turn as Blue Dot Host Dave Schlom takes over for Jennifer Jewell and points the questions in her direction.

Research out of the University of Colorado suggests that forcibly removing unhoused people from encampments could cause them serious harm. Also, the California Legislature passed a bill Friday that was targeted at Shasta County and would ban hand-counting ballots in most elections, and the federal government is meeting with small business owners to create standards to protect workers from extreme heat, but federal rulemaking can take years and requires bipartisan support.

A month after forcibly removing unhoused people from a large encampment at Depot Park, the city of Chico issued notices of enforcement to those camping along sections of Big Chico Creek and the Lindo Channel. Also, a major sweep of 24 unlicensed grows in Siskiyou County netted more than 8,000 pounds of marijuana with a street value exceeding $68 million earlier this summer, and Cal Fire will conduct a controlled burn today in Redding, Igo and Cottonwood.

The town of Paradise is getting new road signs that tell people which evacuation zones they’re driving through. Also, California State University trustees voted yesterday to approve a proposal to increase tuition by 6% annually over the next five years, and Shasta County supervisors will discuss suing California if Newsom signs a measure passed by the legislature last week that would ban hand-counting ballots in most elections.

This week, our second episode on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s inaugural Garden Futures Summit being held at the New York Botanical Garden on Sept. 29th and at gardens across the city on Saturday, Sept. 30th.

Award-winning actor and author Peter Coyote shares a series of techniques and improv exercises with masks to help calm your mind and free yourself from self-doubt.

Dozens affected by the Bear Fire or North Complex gathered Friday to address the looming expiration of permits that allow them to live in RVs and trailers on their properties. Also, the Butte County Board of Supervisors will once again discuss how to continue funding for libraries at their meeting today, and California’s new insurance deal covers all of California but allows insurers to use catastrophe modeling to set insurance premiums and to pass on reinsurance fees to consumers.

The city of Chico's Pallet shelter site for unhoused residents opened in April 2022. NSPR looked into the number of people the site has housed in nearly a year and a half. Also, the Butte County Board of Supervisors voted this week to explore a possible tax to fund the county’s libraries, and a controlled burn will take place in the Red Bluff Recreation Area on Friday for the first time in almost 10 years.