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The expected rent increase for residents of a senior mobile home park in Chico won’t be as much as they initially expected, but the proposed spike has motivated some seniors to speak up. Also, the city of Chico has announced its intention to forcibly remove more unhoused people camping along the bike path, and a North State teenager who was reported missing over the weekend has been reunited with her family.

A new landmark report on wildfires asks the federal government to recognize tribal sovereignty and support cultural burning by Native Americans. Also, the city of Chico is trying to shut down a physician-led harm reduction program that can include a doctor providing clean needles to a patient, and Stonewall Alliance Center of Chico is welcoming residents to participate in a community ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos.

This week on Cultivating Place, we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant-loving and garden-growing lives in conversation with Olly Costello.

School districts across the state have been debating if and when school officials should notify parents if their student identifies as transgender without the student's consent. Several lawsuits have had contradictory rulings. NSPR spoke with an attorney with the ACLU of Northern California to learn more about what the rulings mean for students. Also, new controversial plans to aid the ecological crisis in the Delta-Bay watershed were unveiled by California water regulators last week, and a boil advisory has been issued for Durham Water Irrigation District customers through today.

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the new measure "long overdue," saying that the banning binge of diversity materials has to come to an end.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors is facing a potential lawsuit for illegally imposing fines on public record access. This is from the First Amendment Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union, alongside local news outlets Redding Record Searchlight and Shasta Scout. Also, more than 1,000 Tehama County residents are without power this morning after PG&E shut offs due to critical fire weather conditions, and the Chico Police Department is warning residents about a new phone scam.

Despite hitting roadblocks to research transgender issues in North Carolina, a history professor argues a bill to end California’s travel ban “sends an unfortunate message that the arguments that are coming at us from Florida and Texas are working.”

The population of transgender inmates in California prisoners surged by 234% in the years since the state adopted a first-in-the nation policy allowing gender-affirming health care.

With states empowered to regulate abortion, doctors say they're trapped by vague laws that criminalize care. And ongoing court battles make it hard to keep up with the procedure's legal status.

What's the current state of COVID in Butte County? Also, a new report finds California mothers are more likely to survive childbirth than mothers in states that ban abortion, and child care providers say they need support from the state or they'll have to shut down.