Search results for

The city of Chico is set to remove three homeless encampments today. In total, 23 unsheltered residents will be forced to relocate. Also, most business coming before the Butte County Board of Supervisors at its meeting tomorrow pertains to routine budget adjustments and contract approvals but some agenda items stand out, and North State residents won’t see the full solar eclipse today but even a partial eclipse is a remarkable event.

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Bloomberg News science reporter Loren Grush to talk about her new book, The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts.

After protesters were arrested Tuesday following a days-long protest at Cal Poly Humboldt against the ongoing Israel-Gaza war, one professor is concerned about law enforcement involvement. Also, voters in Chester will soon decide whether or not to fund fire and ambulance services, and California is now recovering from an unprecedented three-year population decline.

To learn more about these poets, click on their names.

To kick off May, looking forward to Mother’s Day, Graduations, and the promise of Summer Gardening in general here in the US, this week we go all in for flowers in pots! with one of the world’s bright gardens and floral stars: Sarah Raven. Her newest book: A Year Full of Pots Container Flowers for All Seasons, notes that pots in the garden are like "bubbles in a glass of champagne.

Former Chico State faculty members provide two very different militia tales.

Shasta Regional Medical Center was fined $155,000 for violations in 2023. Also, a new all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant is now in the old IHOP building, and students in Butte County can get the Tdap (or DTaP) and HPV vaccines free of cost at several upcoming clinics.

Shasta County's long-serving registrar of voters is retiring tomorrow. Nobody in the county is quite sure how the vacant seat will be filled. Also, an education center for Native American youth is opening in Greenville soon, and residents in Red Bluff struggling with homelessness now have somewhere to go for support.

Host Dave Schlom finds a kindred spirit with Christopher Cokinos, author of the new book, Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow.

Gov. Gavin Newsom made funds from Proposition 1 available last week. Now, counties are preparing to apply for competitive grants for mental health facilities. Also, Butte County’s next community meeting about updating its emergency evacuation maps will be held in Concow tomorrow evening, and California’s long debated and controversial plan to move water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the south has a new $20 billion price tag.