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From Alderpoint to Yuba City, hundreds of thousands of PG&E customers are managing without electricity across Northern California today as the company conducts a pre-emptive blackout aimed at preventing its equipment from sparking another wildfire.

The company began turning off the electricity to half a million households shortly after midnight due to high winds.

Customers of Redding’s Municipal Utility and other systems are not generally affected.

Planned PG&E power outages across northern California Wednesday and Thursday will have sporadic effects on NSPR service. As of Wednesday morning, because of cuts to power on Shasta Bally in Redding, NSPR's transmitters in Redding, Burney, and Dunsmuir are off the air. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Late night drivers using Northbound Interstate 5 in southern Shasta County should expect significant disruption to their normal routines next week. 

All northbound lanes will be closed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from midnight until 5 a.m. as highway widening work continues.

Workers replacing a railroad overpass will be lifting 150 foot long, 164,000 pound girders into place using cranes and other heavy equipment. Traffic will be detoured near Anderson for about three miles.

A local non-profit developer received a bit more than half a million dollars in grants earlier this week to speed affordable housing production in the region in the Camp Fire’s wake.

Community Housing Improvement Program or CHIP, which is building or about to break ground on affordable subdivisions in Cottonwood, Corning, Orland, Biggs and Williams, received $560,000 from the North Valley Community Foundation’s Butte Strong Fund. 

Two families of toxic industrial chemicals have shown up in the sources of water local utilities deliver to area households, according to a report by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington DC-based organization.

President Trump is holding a press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, marking 100 years of diplomatic relations between the countries. The remarks come amid an open impeachment inquiry into the U.S. president. Tune in at 11 a.m.

Opened for service when Ford’s Model T was considered a technical marvel, Caltrans is prepping a replacement for a century-old bridge still carrying traffic on what’s now State Route 99. 

“Originally constructed in 1918, it was widened sometime after that. It’s just met its useful life at this point, and time to be replaced.” Caltrans Project Manager Michael Webb said.