Chico, CA

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The Chico Police Department will hold a public meeting next week about the use of surplus military equipment. Also, a new alert system is a sophisticated hi-tech tool giving disaster managers the information they need when bad things happen, and Butte County Humane Society is at capacity and asking residents to foster a dog.

The organization is at max capacity and has been pushing to inform the public that fostering one of their pups for a brief time is also an option.

Chico State will host a two-day symposium dedicated to making communities more resilient and better adapted to wildfires.

Dozens of residents from around the North State are showing up to Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s office in Chico to picket outside on Fridays. At their latest gathering, protestors indicated frustration over not being able to reach the representative.

A former Chico firefighter has written her first novel about her experiences, and the owner of a local bookstore discusses what they have to offer the Chico community.

Many of Chico’s yield signs will be converted to stop signs by April. Also, bees pollinate orchard crops but there are fewer this year and that could be a problem for almond producers, and Chico Marketplace is accepting donations of formal wear for high school students.

The Trump administration says it plans to fire 70,000 Veterans Affairs (VA) employees and that doesn’t sit well with veterans who depend on the medical care the VA delivers. Also, the man guilty of burning down Bidwell Mansion in Chico appeared in court yesterday and was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and three cancer treatment centers in Redding are being consolidated into a central location. The Sierra Pacific Regional Cancer Center just broke ground, and plans to open in summer 2026.

The man who burned the mansion down was given 11 years in prison for the crime.

Dams and levees have wreaked havoc on native salmon habitats. A nonprofit based in Chico aims to restore naturally occurring channels that increase their chances of survival.