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The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act has helped fund small and rural schools in areas with a lot of federal forest land for more than 100 years. Now, many schools in the North State could lose funding after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass the bill. Also, President Donald Trump has made promises throughout his campaign to ramp up enforcement efforts against undocumented immigrants. But in California, local law enforcement is limited in how they can engage with federal immigration officials, and the Chico Zine Faire is back and hosting dozens of creators, workshops and food vendors this Saturday.

An Arizona man was arrested in connection with the Feather River Adventist School shooting last month. Butte County Sheriff’s Office says Jesse Kitagawa Jr. illegally sold the gun used by the shooter. Also, Butte County supervisors voted to extend a deadline for property owners to apply for debris removal, and a Chico man died of an overdose while staying at Safe Space Winter Shelter on Sunday.

Chico State University history professor Michael Magliari clarifies possible misconceptions about Chico founding father John Bidwell.

Landowners in the recently formed Tuscan Water District have approved an assessment fee to fund the district’s operations. The vote took place yesterday after more than two hours of heated discussion. Also, five-year-old Elias Wolford is now able to sit up on his own and has begun physical therapy after being shot at Feather River Adventist School in Oroville last month, and California is abandoning its noncarbon fuel mandates for diesel trucks and locomotives in anticipation they’ll be challenged by the incoming Trump Administration.

A conversation with Dan Brisebois, host of The Seed Farmer Podcast and author of the newly released The Seed Farmer: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Selling Your Own Seed.

Guest Host Abra Lee celebrates the season in conversation with the King of Camellias, Sidney Frazier. Sidney is based out of sunny Charleston, South Carolina, where he sits as Vice President of Horticulture at Middleton Place - a historic home and garden there is believed to be the oldest landscaped garden in America.

Chico Unified School District swore in new board members Teisha Hase and Gayle Olsen at its meeting last night. Also, Shasta Lake levels are nearly 18 feet higher than they were in mid-November, and Sharing Blessings to Others founder Jean Chrislot Michaud welcomes the community to experience Haiti's rich culture.

Water advocates are speaking out against the controversial Tuscan Water District. Also, the True North Housing Alliance started a program to provide training and counseling to unhoused Chico residents at the beginning of the year, and Redding plans to cut one of their Crisis Intervention Response Teams, which handle calls involving people suffering from acute mental health crises.

Blue Dot's series of programs about the United States Geological Survey's Volcano Observatories continues with a trip north to Alaska!

An expert explains what ghost guns are and what is being done to stop them. Also, PG&E will increase rates by around $3 a month in January and again in March, and California has an ambitious goal to make the state carbon-neutral by 2045.