Safe Space to start day classes for unhoused residents | Butte County to vote on roadside wildfire prevention agreement | Yuba City offering water conservation incentives

By Erik Adams,

Ken Devol, Alec Stutson

Published April 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM PDT

The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

In today’s episode:

Safe Space is ramping up its services with more case management and new day classes to help unhoused residents in Chico build life skills.

Also, Butte County and the fire safe council could enter into an agreement to reduce wildfire risk near roadsides.

Plus, council members in Yuba City have endorsed a grant-funded program to incentivize commercial property owners to save water by replacing existing landscaping.

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Erik Adams

Erik began his role as NSPR's Butte County government reporter in September of 2023 as part of UC Berkeley's California Local News Fellowship. He received his bachelor's degree in Journalism from Cal State LA earlier that year.

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Ken Devol

Ken came to NSPR through the back door as a volunteer, doing all the things that volunteers do. Almost nothing – nothing -- in his previous work experience suggests that he would ever be on public radio.

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Alec Stutson

Alec Stutson grew up in Colorado and graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in Radio Journalism, 20th/21st Century Literature, and a minor in Film Studies. He is a huge podcast junkie, as well as a movie nerd and musician.

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