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Safe Space Winter Shelter in Chico will begin sheltering unhoused individuals from the cold starting Dec. 17. The nonprofit recently secured an intake center location for the season. Also, as winter begins, hundreds of Butte County residents whose homes were damaged in last year’s storms are not back in them, and new walk-in clinics are now available in Yuba City that offer assessments to receive mental health or addiction treatment.

A faculty union member ripped the report as "absolutely demoralizing"

One-on-one reading helps parents bond with their children and group storytimes at local libraries provide additional activities like singing, dancing and crafts.

Butte County libraries are challenging parents and children to read a thousand books together before kindergarten. Also, a massive raise due to a new California law may be coming soon for members of the Chico City Council, and a free Thanksgiving meal for up to 300 people was hosted by the Chico Salvation Army last week.

Youth in the Paradise region have lived through both a pandemic and the Camp Fire, California's deadliest wildfire. Community organizations are mobilizing to help give them spaces to thrive.

Progress has been made on a bill that would keep disaster survivors from having to pay taxes on corporate settlement money. Also, a group of Chico parents has formed an anti-racism coalition, and it’s been an unprecedentedly wet year which has afforded the state’s water managers the opportunity to replenish drought depleted aquifers.

The end of the pandemic pause means student borrowers as of Oct. 1 resumed loan payments. Here's a guide for anyone who owes college debt or who is looking to borrow money for college.

How to fund the county’s libraries is back in discussion in Butte County. The county board of supervisors approved a contract with consultants to determine voters’ interest in a possible future library tax.

The California State University Board of Trustees voted this week (Sept. 13) to raise tuition rates over the next five school years. NSPR's Alec Stutson has more on the reactions from Chico State students.

From housing affordability to fentanyl to mental health and more, California lawmakers debated hundreds of bills this Legislative session. Here’s a breakdown of what made it to the Governor’s desk — and what didn’t.