Good morning, Redding.

A guide organizes the various Shasta names in Shasta and Siskiyou counties to help residents distinguish local towns and landmarks (offering clear background on each).

Local New Life Discovery Project helps residents facing homelessness and addiction find work by pairing them with second-chance employers and highlighting skills gained through volunteer work + building stability.

Redding School of the Arts began construction on a new $9.8M high school campus Monday, Sept.

28 — the 12,200 sqft facility will house seven classrooms, a multipurpose room, a lunchroom and offices — and is slated to open next December with plans for a community performance theater.

Shasta College is set to host its first-ever Community Day on Oct.

8 at Redding Main Campus starting at 10 a.m. Guests will tour newly remodeled buildings (including Social Sciences, library, and Veterans Center) and meet student representatives to learn about campus programs and planned projects.

Cal Fire is planning two prescribed burns this week in Shasta County to remove dead vegetation and manage invasive grasses.

Monday and Tuesday, a 225-acre burn will occur near Whitmore in the Miller Demonstration Forest while Thursday and Friday, 250 acres will be burned at the Lower Gas Point Project.

City staff are reviewing proposals from five groups to operate the civic auditorium — three of which are local.

Officials will consider one to three top proposals to present to City Council in October.

A new $74 million water pumping plant is planned for Redding to replace the 1937 pump station and improve city water supply, upgrade the Sacramento River Trail, and add new access points (with temporary trail closures).

Construction will begin in 2027 and finish by 2030.

A Wisconsin man who collapsed while hiking at Lassen Park was airlifted to a Redding hospital where doctors diagnosed him with West Nile Virus meningitis, marking Shasta County’s only case so far.

A small invasive mosquito, Aedes Aegypti, has flourished in Shasta County and is known to fly during the day and breed in minimal water (it does not carry West Nile Virus), so residents are urged to remove standing water from their yards.