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Chico residents could see changes to rules about when alcohol can be sold due to a city council proposal to lift a ban on selling alcohol after midnight on designated holidays. Also, Chico's Police Community Advisory Board will hold its first town hall meeting this spring, and Allstate's return to California will lead to increased auto rates.

Author David A. Delgardo recounts his boyhood growing up in Chico, Calif.

As heavy rain and wind batters the North State, Cal OES has activated its State Operations Center in preparation for potential flooding and Butte County fire stations offer sandbags to residents ahead of the storm. Also, Paradise launches a new website for those rebuilding and moving to the town, and Gov. Gavin Newsom campaigns for controversial Proposition 1 on the March ballot.

Food pantries in Chico are seeing more demand for services than ever before. Butte County Supervisors will discuss a letter opposing AT&T’s attempt to end landline service, and with less than a month before the California primary election, a controversial proposition will be on everyone’s ballot.

Applications are now open for prescribed fire training in Plumas County. A train derailed Sunday, sending coal into the Feather River and today is the last day of the annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action.

Butte County Supervisors send a letter opposing AT&T’s request to end landline services. The Chico Police Department is offering $80,000 signing bonuses for experienced dispatchers, and a technical glitch is preventing tens of thousands of Californians from applying for student financial aid.

Local author and poet Joan Goodreau presents her work, “Where to Next?" which explores everything from the personal effects of the California wildfires to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Also, author and medical journalist Michael Castleman dives into his latest, Sizzling Sex for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Maximize Erotic Pleasure at Any Age.

In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, we are joined this week by Brent Leggs, Senior Vice President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Executive Director of the Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, whose mission focuses on telling the full American story.

The Nor Rel Muk Wintu Nation in Trinity County now owns and takes care of 78 acres of ancestral land. The tribe is also hoping to win their decades-long fight for federal recognition. Also, officials estimate nearly 2.5 million pounds of coal spilled into the Middle Fork of the Feather River after a train derailed Sunday, and more than a hundred people gathered at the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology yesterday to remember the museum’s namesake.