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The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Wednesday, September 3, 2025.

February is Black History Month, and colleges across the North State are holding events and workshops to celebrate. Also, low-income Californians will soon have their grocery budgets slashed due to the end of a pandemic assistance program, and a government survey found that more than 36 million trees died in California last year.

Officials in Tehama County say they don’t have the resources to notify every resident in the event of an emergency such as a wildfire. Also, an investigation found a stalled U.S. Forest Service project could have protected Grizzly Flats from the destructive Caldor Fire, and research suggests climate change is increasing the likelihood of megafloods in California.

Lea este artículo en español.Kristi and Brian Anderson have some thoughts about how the first year of California’s “get-tough-on-utilities” approach to…