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A Butte County woman was sentenced this week to a year in prison for disaster relief fraud after the Camp Fire. Also, how to protect your dog from the heat this week, and U.S. cities will soon see another round of nearly 800,000 monkeypox vaccine doses.

Butte County has received just 20 doses of the monkeypox vaccine. Also, the National Weather Service issues an excessive heat watch for much of the North State, and a State Auditor’s report finds nearly a million Californians are drinking unsafe water.

Families of people killed by police in Butte County memorialize their loved ones. Also, pet owners should consider getting their pets microchipped as part of their wildfire preparedness plan, and growth slows on the destructive Oak Fire near Yosemite National Park.

Safe Space opens an air-conditioned cooling center in Chico. Also, PG&E looks to its customers with Tesla batteries for help during times of high demand, and the Oak Fire near Yosemite National Park becomes California’s largest wildfire this year.

A nonprofit in Chico is planning to open a cooling center that would fill a gap left open by the city. Also, public health officials say wastewater has become a key detection tool for the coronavirus, and COVID-19 treatments may soon become easier to get at local pharmacies.

Cal Fire has begun hiring back some of its seasonal firefighting force as wildfire risk continues to increase. Also, a North State library tries to make the experience of being incarcerated less harmful for families by having inmates read books over video to their kids, and SAT and ACT standardized tests are officially being dropped from California State University admissions.

Author and Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep details the story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were…