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Chico’s council chambers were packed earlier this week as many residents asked the council to adopt a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. They also asked the council to issue a statement supporting Palestinian, Muslim, Israeli and Jewish residents who say they no longer feel safe in Chico. Also, the Redding City Council appointed a new mayor at its meeting but her selection was controversial, and a substitute teacher was arrested after exposing his buttocks to a sixth-grade class at Anderson Middle School.

After a three-day shut-down due to vandalism Humboldt Avenue Skatepark has reopened. The department that oversees the skatepark says a 72-hour shutdown policy is necessary but some skateboarders find it unfair. Also, Shasta County and the Pit River Tribe are suing California over a controversial wind farm project in the works despite being rejected twice by county leadership, and a million-gallon water storage tank in Orland is nearing completion that’s part of a large program to expand the city’s municipal water system to help well users during drought.

All firefighters and ambulance workers were laid off, effective February, in the Plumas County community of Chester. Also, a new CUSD policy change has prohibited the use of campus facilities for non-school groups until after 6 p.m. on weekdays. This means some local organizations have not been able to serve as many students as they once did, and today the Butte County Board of Supervisors will look at the results of a polling and research campaign designed to find out if residents would approve of a tax increase to fund county libraries and rural fire stations.

Host Nancy Wiegman looks back at some of 2023's literary work.

The Chico City Council called an emergency meeting over the weekend regarding Safe Space winter shelter. The meeting comes after Safe Space moved its intake center to the city’s “Our Hands” sculpture on Friday night due to receiving a fine for using the former 7-Eleven downtown. Also, some residents have had close calls walking or biking through intersections in downtown Chico that don’t have crosswalk signals but Caltrans says more will be installed this summer, and the Butte County Board of Supervisors will vote on accepting grants that would be used to hire year-round defensible space inspectors.

The Chico News and Review has announced it will cease publication of a printed paper and will instead provide all its content online. Also, Chico Police Chief Billy Aldridge announced the new members of the Police Community Advisory Board, and a new California law banning people from carrying firearms in most public places has, once again, been blocked from taking effect as a court challenge continues.

We’re in conversation with Cornwall-based ecological landscape designer Sid Hill, a land and ecological artisan who creates beautiful, abundant, and thoughtful places.

Host Dave Schlom sits down with one of his favorite people, Lassen Volcanic National Park Superintendent Jim Richardson, on the eve of his retirement from the National Park Service.

With a final sale this month, PG&E’s Fire Victim Trust has now sold all of the company’s stock it set aside to compensate wildfire survivors, but it still doesn’t have enough money. Also, Shasta County supervisors voted last week to significantly increase the severance package for its recently hired public health officer, and California’s Medicaid program is undergoing major changes in the new year aimed at improving health care access and delivery for people enrolled in the safety net program. But state regulators will need to rigorously enforce the improvements.

In the first of a special two-part series, Host Dave Schlom is joined by Michael Kauffmann, co-editor and publisher of The Klamath Mountains: A Natural History.