Plumas County

This month the Sites Reservoir Project Authority approved the reservoir plan. Located just west of Maxwell in Colusa County, the reservoir will be part of an ongoing effort to increase California’s resiliency in the face of climate change. Also, Starbucks employees in Yuba City have voted to unionize, citing issues with understaffing and reduced hours during busy seasons, and there are just two more Saturdays left before the Redding Farmers Market closes for the season on Dec. 9th.

Chico State has completed a historic agreement to transfer ownership of an unused parcel of land to the Susanville Indian Rancheria in Lassen County. Also, a Sacramento lawmaker has placed a hold on two million dollars in state funds that had been earmarked for CapRadio’s new downtown headquarters, and this Sunday Chico will host its annual Christmas Preview downtown to celebrate the winter season.

Tomorrow marks five years since the Camp Fire burned the town of Paradise and surrounding communities. As the area has rebuilt, community groups and youth programs have begun to return. Also, the city of Chico has filed an amicus curiae, or a “friend of the court” brief, with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a widespread effort to overturn a federal court ruling that makes it illegal for cities to penalize unhoused residents camping on city property if the city doesn't have shelter beds available, and the Environmental Protection Agency will discuss banning a chemical found in most tires and many other rubber products such as shoes, synthetic turf and playground equipment.

At the end of the year, it could be illegal for survivors of the Bear Fire or North Complex, to live in RVs if they aren’t actively rebuilding. Experts say the stress of possible evictions could hurt survivors’ health. Also, PG&E could be shutting off power to more than 4,000 customers in the northern Sacramento Valley and surrounding foothills due to critical fire weather conditions, and Plumas County has replaced its CodeRED emergency alert system with a new one called Genasys Emergency Management (GEM).

The Plumas County Board of Supervisors will vote tomorrow on a measure that would make building homes for fire survivors easier and cheaper. Also, a mosquito-borne disease called St. Louis encephalitis virus has been detected in Shasta County for the first time in 50 years, and more than 1,600 residents of Greenville and Crescent Mills will be without power today and tomorrow.

When a dead tree PG&E should have logged fell on a power line in 2021, it caused the largest single wildfire in California history. After the fire, prosecutors told the company to aggressively manage trees near its lines. As NSPR’s Jamie Jiang reports, county officials aren’t impressed with how PG&E has done so far.

The Plumas County Board of Supervisors voted in July to bring telehealth psychiatry to Plumas County.

The California Department of Justice is investigating Butte County for potentially violating state voting laws. Also, Plumas County will use juvenile detention centers in Butte County after California turned responsibility to detaining youths over to local governments, and this summer marks the 59th year the Yurok Tribe is holding its Klamath Salmon Festival. But this year, there won’t be any salmon served because of low salmon stocks.

The Plumas County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to spend nearly half a million dollars on telehealth psychiatry for Dixie Fire survivors but some say the money would be wasted since internet connection is hard to come by in the area. Also, you wouldn’t think Californians smoking less could be a bad thing for kids here but the state’s key early childhood services get a big chunk of their funding from taxes on tobacco, and we turn to a sports medicine expert for how to stay cool and active in this week’s recent extreme heat.

PG&E begins undergrounding power lines in Plumas. Also, the University of California is moving to allow the hiring of undocumented students, and a proposed deal to reduce water use from the Colorado River.