Chico

The search for a new police chief is underway in Chico. Also, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed an emergency declaration for fire-stricken Siskiyou County, and California has the highest number of people who could receive student loan debt forgiveness under President Joe Biden’s plan.

Landowners living in a controversial proposed water district in Butte County have one more day to vote on whether the district should be formed.

Chico’s cooling center moved this week to accommodate more people. Also, auto club AAA expects an increase in roadside service calls as travelers hit the road for the holiday weekend, and a controversial vaccination-consent bill was pulled before a vote in the California Legislature.

The city of Chico has named a temporary replacement for the city’s outgoing police chief. Also, small and rural schools in the North State are facing staffing challenges, and California is facing a prolonged late-summer heat wave this week.

Drought in the West is causing many cattle ranchers to reduce their herds. Also, affordable housing is a problem in Butte County following disasters, and the mother of Tyler Rushing — shot by Chico police in 2017 — honors her son’s memory.

In Chico, the housing aid nonprofit Home and Heart is working to decrease those numbers. NSPR's Alec Stutson spoke with the nonprofit’s founder, Sierra Schmidt, and Executive Director Cathryn Carkhuff about Home and Heart’s model to help older unhoused residents find a place to live.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been allocated to governments in Butte County for wildfire recovery projects. Also, a journalist in Chico resolves a lawsuit filed over Chico police records, and California plans to adopt regulations that would ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Author David Bruhn writes "Toe The Mark," a book dedicated to highlighting the running programs in Chico, California, in the 1970s.

An investigative journalist in Chico has won access to hundreds of records in Chico police shootings. Also, officials say cost is a barrier to recovery for survivors in the North Complex burn scar, and a PG&E power outage is planned for today in parts of Yuba, Butte and Plumas counties.

Butte County Supervisor Tami Ritter recently apologized to surviving family members of people killed by local law enforcement. Also, the city of Chico has reached an agreement with the nonprofit Safe Space Winter Shelter to open a cooling center for the remainder of the summer, and California’s public health director says the state is actually in better shape for battling monkeypox because of the COVID-19 pandemic.