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An emergency alert radio system now being used in Shasta County hopes to reach rural residents and provide another means of emergency preparedness. Also, after months of pressure, Gov. Gavin Newsom has joined the calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, and Chico State announced next year’s Book in Common. It will be Héctor Tobar’s “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino.’”
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As heavy rain and wind batters the North State, Cal OES has activated its State Operations Center in preparation for potential flooding and Butte County fire stations offer sandbags to residents ahead of the storm. Also, Paradise launches a new website for those rebuilding and moving to the town, and Gov. Gavin Newsom campaigns for controversial Proposition 1 on the March ballot.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon. The proposals are part of Newsom's strategy to protect salmon.
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Part of Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon is still closed after a rockslide earlier this week. Also, cars and trucks made and sold in California would have to be equipped with technology preventing them from traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit under a new bill in the state Legislature, and Californians have relied on the hotline to get same-day prescriptions of Paxlovid — the medication that treats COVID-19. When the hotline shuts down, this easy access will come to an end too.
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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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Butte County and Chico don’t track unhoused deaths. A UC Berkeley professor says for places that do, the data can guide policy and give a clear picture of the unhoused community. Also, Chico started delivering 7-day enforcement notices to unsheltered residents yesterday in advance of clearing homeless encampments at three locations in the city, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is preparing to dip into the state’s rainy day fund to help fill a budget deficit this year but he also wants to be able to put more into the state’s savings account during good times.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case about homeless camps later this year. It could have major implications for California.
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The Chico News and Review has announced it will cease publication of a printed paper and will instead provide all its content online. Also, Chico Police Chief Billy Aldridge announced the new members of the Police Community Advisory Board, and a new California law banning people from carrying firearms in most public places has, once again, been blocked from taking effect as a court challenge continues.
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California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office projects a 2024-25 budget deficit twice as large as 2023-24. It says the state could dip into reserves and cut some one-time spending.
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There are around 300 short-term rentals in Chico, which generated more than half a million dollars in taxes last year. Also a recent report found that Chico State did not violate any policies or mishandle the case of a Chico State professor who had a sexual relationship with a student and allegedly threatened gun violence on campus, and the California Energy Commission held an informational meeting in Anderson yesterday to discuss the Fountain Wind Project that would be the site of 48 turbines in eastern Shasta County.