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Happy (almost) Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, taking place on June 20th, we get Still.

Senior mobile home park residents led a long fight for rent stabilization in Chico but were shot down by a 2-4 council vote. Also, Shasta County supervisors have selected a former deputy district attorney with no experience managing elections as the new Registrar of Voters, and a new report found that the historic Hotel Marysville is at risk of collapse and may need to be demolished after a fire.

Blue Dot concludes its retrospective of the earthquake that struck Northern California on April 18, 1906.

Shasta County’s Assistant Registrar of Voters says she will remain in her role to help ensure a smooth election. Also, a draft report of Butte County's annual tally of unhoused residents was presented at a meeting this month, and Butte County's board of supervisors will meet on Tuesday to decide on next year's billion-dollar budget.

A Chico parent is appealing a 2023 decision barring schools from forcibly outing trans and gender questioning students to parents. An appeals panel heard the parent’s updated case in May. Also, Asaahdi Coleman was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the 2022 shooting of four people on a Greyhound bus in Oroville and killed one, and the popular streaming service Hulu is taking on the Sherri Papini case this summer.

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

Smoke may be seen near Oroville today and later this month as officials conduct prescribed burns at Thermalito’s forebay and afterbay. They are intended to reduce invasive plants and dry brush. Also, it’s Invasive Species Action Week in California, and during this week’s hot weather conditions we take a look at the North State’s hottest recorded temperatures.

Liz Brown's book Twilight Man is a biography and mystery that tells the story of her ancestors.

Whether to close roads around Lower Bidwell Park to vehicles on certain days will be considered by the Chico City Council tomorrow. Also, June 1 officially kicks off Pride Month. Chico will join the celebration with many events, and California is having difficulty finding enough firefighters this year.

The Supreme Court has sided with the city of Grants Pass in a landmark case on homelessness. The decision reverses a previous ban on criminalizing people for sleeping outside if they have no other options. In Chico, some say the decision could affect how the city responds to homelessness in the long term. Also, the Pit River Tribe is getting more than 1,500 acres of its land back in Shasta County, and the City of Redding is making it easier for utility customers to pay their bills online.