Feature Story

Wolfpack Clubhouse Expands LGBTQ+ Community Offerings

The group has evolved from a small cohort of close friends to a non-profit community organization with around 200 active participants, Carson says. They focus on women, she says, but their special events and youth activities are open to all genders.

Opinion

Journeying Towards Equity With Resilience

Photo by Jon Tyson / Unsplash Sharon Brisolara holds a masters in Human Service Administration and a PhD in Program Evaluation and Planning, with concentrations in Rural Sociology and Women’s

News

Chauvin Verdict Stirs Contrasting Reactions From Local Social Justice and Multicultural Groups

Gali says statements that call for community peace without standing against brutality could be interpreted as attempts to point fingers at active and vocal organizers for social justice.

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The Whole Earth and Watershed Festival Returns, Virtually

Peggy Rebol says climate change is affecting all aspects of our lives and should push us to look at changing local policies. Climate affects our local community through drought and wildfire, she said, “so anything we can do to mitigate or adapt to these realities will benefit us.”

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Redding Nurses Raise Their Voices for Expanded Health Care Access

The California Nurses Association is sponsoring CalCare. They say AB 1400 is needed to provide comprehensive healthcare to the more than 3 million Californians who remain uninsured as well as those who are under-insured or face high co-pays or deductibles.

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United Nations Biodiversity Project Highlights Local Winnemem Wintu Project

The U.N. featured the Winnemem Wintu in part due to the work of Niria Garcia, a 28-year-old Xicana graduate student at Columbia University and human rights advocate, climate justice advocate, educator and storyteller. She recently received the 2020 United Nations Young Champion of the Earth award.

Opinion

Our Children Are Watching Us

Three weeks after the Carr Fire devastated Redding, 4,000 miles away in Stockholm, Sweden, a small 15-year-old girl named Greta skipped school.

News: Bethel Church

Bethel Shares Statement Opposing the Equality Act

“The Equality Act seeks to create equality by erasing gender, but God created them male and female and said that it is good,” reads one slide, with four accompanying Bible verse references. Another reads, “real equality celebrates the differences between men and women and empowers them both.”

Feature Story

The North State's Most Powerful Climate Action Group Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight

At the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, held this year on the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, Thomas will be be making a clear statement: the programs of Shasta Living Streets are essential to addressing the climate crisis.

News: Local Government

Redding Tourism Contract—Final Three Vary Widely in Relevant Experience

Concerns about fairness have likely arisen due to disparities in how some recent contract renewals appear to have been handled by the Council.

Opinion

Missing the "Public" In this Public Health Crisis

Our focus on “me” versus “we” created the perfect playground for this virus. A culture that fights COVID-19 with “personal responsibility” doesn’t work. Addressing a structural problem by relying on individuals is doomed to fail.

News: Community Events

Event to Honor César Chávez Will Support Local Farm Workers

While some farm workers prefer to stay in the shadows, Casia says, she hopes the Cesar Chavez Day donations help them to feel supported and welcomed in the community.

Opinion

Time to Wake Up

It has always been ignorance of climate change that is our true enemy, not our changing climate.

News: Accountability

Nick Patterson, One More Missing Indigenous Man

American Indians and Alaskan Natives are 2.5 times as likely to experience violent crimes and at least two times more likely to experience rape or sexual assault crimes as compared to all other races. And when they go missing or are murdered, answers are often scarce.

News: Advance Redding

Advance Redding Seeks Redding's Tourism Marketing Contract

Advance Redding’s progress towards winning the City’s tourism contract coincides with negotiations for the renewal of their ten year contract to operate the Redding Civic Auditorium. City Manager Barry Tippin says the two contract processes are not linked.

Climate Emergency

Sunrise Redding: A New Wave of Climate Change Activism

“I start with the assumption of allyship . . . City Council is used to hearing “Save the world. Go Green.” but none of that is very specific, so they’re left with a very vague request. And climate change is like a hydra, it requires action on so many fronts."

Opinion

The End of the World as We Know It

We are all asleep until the smell of smoke awakens us . . . we cannot save ourselves and our children unless everyone is awake to the crisis we all collectively face.

News: Patriot Movement

Bethel-Connected Music Producer Collaborates with Patriot Movement Leaders on Media Project

Jeremy Edwardson's connections with Bethel include his role as the president of Jesus Culture Music, the music label of a Sacramento ministry that developed out of a youth conference at Bethel Church and is listed on the church’s website as an associated ministry.

Opinion

We the People

From the start, the United States has struggled with who “the people” actually are. Who counts? Who doesn’t? Who has “power to”? Who has “power over”?

Community Interest

An Interview with Tara Jean Stevens, Host of Heaven Bent

A new podcast season focused on Redding's Bethel Church releases it's first episode today, March 1st. Annelise Pierce interviews the host.

News: Accountability

An Update on Redding's Garden of Lights

Long before Redding's Garden of Lights was set up, the project was the subject of controversy when it was partially funded with City of Redding tax dollars. Shasta Scout shares an update on the project's costs, revenue and any known impacts on tourism.

News: Patriot Movement

City of Shasta Lake Council Vacancy Attracts Candidates with Militia Connections

Two individuals with ties to militia groups in the North State have expressed interest in being appointed to the City of Shasta Lake Council.

News: Local Government

The Council Talks: More Police for Redding?

What’s happening: At the request of Redding City Council member Julie Winter, the Council will consider tonight whether to add an additional neighborhood police unit (NPU) consisting of four

News: Patriot Movement

Cottonwood Militia Leader Reports Tenfold Rise in Recruits

Woody Clendenen, leader of the local branch of the California State Militia, reported on local radio this week that militia recruit numbers have soared in the last two months.  His

News: Bethel

Bethel's Bill Johnson calls Biden's Election 100% Fraud

In an interview with the David J. Harris Jr. Show on December 21, Bethel Church’s Senior Leader, Bill Johnson, said he believes “100%” that fraud was involved in the