Sherry Papini

A Chico parent is appealing a 2023 decision barring schools from forcibly outing trans and gender questioning students to parents. An appeals panel heard the parent’s updated case in May. Also, Asaahdi Coleman was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the 2022 shooting of four people on a Greyhound bus in Oroville and killed one, and the popular streaming service Hulu is taking on the Sherri Papini case this summer.

Ballots are due today for landowners voting on whether to form a controversial proposed water district in Butte County. Also, a Shasta County woman who faked her own kidnapping has been sentenced, and California saw the onset of an atmospheric river on the heels of a record-breaking heat wave.

Community colleges in Butte and Shasta counties are deploying new strategies to attract students amid declines in enrollment. Also, a Shasta County woman who faked her own kidnapping is scheduled to be sentenced today, and Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a package of bills to phase out fossil fuels and ramp up clean energy development.

Butte County is suspending permits for new non-drinking water wells as drought grips the state. Also, a Redding woman pleads guilty in a kidnapping hoax, and a California bill would boost the renter tax credit for the first time in decades.