A Chico City Council member is requesting a plan to make improvements at Bidwell Park. Also, the Chico Natural Foods Co-op is offering a 75% discount on California grown produce for those shopping with CalFresh benefits, and a six-page report from Chico city staff highlights several reasons why an hour of free parking is likely to cause issues downtown.

Starting April 1, the Co-op is increasing its previous 50% off discount on state grown fruits and vegetables to 75% for those shopping with CalFresh benefits.

Host Dave Schlom is joined by guests from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of San Diego to profile the ocean science being done at one of the world's most important and historic places to study our blue planet.

The Chico Police Department will hold a public meeting next week about the use of surplus military equipment. Also, a new alert system is a sophisticated hi-tech tool giving disaster managers the information they need when bad things happen, and Butte County Humane Society is at capacity and asking residents to foster a dog.

Here’s what’s happening in the Chico area March 27 to April 2.

The organization is at max capacity and has been pushing to inform the public that fostering one of their pups for a brief time is also an option.

This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with a horticultural leader with big IDEAs. Mae Lin Plummer is the Director of the IDEA Center for Public Gardens in Denver Colorado.

Chico State will host a two-day symposium dedicated to making communities more resilient and better adapted to wildfires.

Gridley High School is now dealing with the emotional aftermath of a student stabbing on campus Wednesday morning. Also, a panel of subject experts presented details about water management in Butte County at a panel discussion in Chico, and Chico State could face a budget deficit of over $30 million this year.

There have been 15 confirmed or probable wolf attacks on livestock so far this year. Increasing wolf populations are celebrated by advocates, but can cause problems for farmers.