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Chico State University was about to fire former biology professor David Stachura for dishonesty, sexual harassment and retaliation when it agreed to withdraw the charges last month in exchange for his resignation in a deal that bans him from working again in the California State University system, documents obtained by EdSource show.
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Chico State’s student government has passed a resolution urging an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza. The resolution also asks Chico State leadership and the city of Chico to join the call for a ceasefire. Also, PG&E is warning customers of an increasingly common phone scam, and several streets in downtown Chico will be closed to the public Sunday due to the upcoming bicycle race.
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The new paper shows metal levels in watersheds around Paradise, though higher than normal, aren't “something that the public should be alarmed about.”
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The Nor Rel Muk Wintu Nation in Trinity County now owns and takes care of 78 acres of ancestral land. The tribe is also hoping to win their decades-long fight for federal recognition. Also, officials estimate nearly 2.5 million pounds of coal spilled into the Middle Fork of the Feather River after a train derailed Sunday, and more than a hundred people gathered at the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology yesterday to remember the museum’s namesake.
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Affordable housing in Chico is being produced at the highest rate in the city’s history. This news comes amid a new Harvard University study finding Chico has the second highest number of cost-burdened households in California. Also, Chico State plans to host a forum on the hotly debated Valley’s Edge Specific Plan that’s set to go before Butte County voters in March, and Butte County is holding a series of workshops about Proposition 1, that if passed, will refocus billions of dollars of funds to serve those with the severest mental health needs.
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The California State University and California Faculty Association reached a tentative deal last night after professors, lecturers and other staff walked out on the first day of classes on all 23 CSU campuses yesterday.
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On the first day of the semester, professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches at the California State University will begin a weeklong strike this morning, including at Chico State. The California Faculty Association has been negotiating for a 12% general pay increase. Also, rates of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, that are monitored in Butte County’s wastewater are on the decline following state and national trends, and after several items were pulled from the agenda at the last Butte County Board of Supervisors meeting, they’re now coming back for discussion.
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A meeting yesterday between Safe Space Winter Shelter and the city of Chico has smoothed tensions between the groups after the nonprofit moved its intake center to an outdoor church parking lot following fines and threats of legal action from the city. Also, Chico State has named Leslie Cornick as its new Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and a storm that moved into the North State last night is bringing valley rain and heavy mountain snow to the region.
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The Mechoopda Indian Tribe and the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve set an intentional ‘cultural burn’ at Chico State, returning fire to land from which the Mechoopda were removed 140 years ago.
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The Mechoopda Tribe and the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve set an intentional “cultural burn” at Chico State returning fire to land from which the Mechoopda were removed 140 years ago. Also, after months of research and polling, the Butte County Board of Supervisors discussed the data surrounding the opinions of registered voters about a library tax ballot measure, and Pacific Bell Telephone Company is suing Roseburg Forest Products Company for alleged negligence in the 2022 Mill Fire.