The suspect is accused of setting five separate fires along a 2.5-mile stretch of road in Penn Valley.

Repairs to the first discharge pipe at the Spaulding 1 Powerhouse have been completed and about 460 cubic feet per second of water is now flowing into the Drum Canal, which feeds Rollins Reservoir.

Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties have all been impacted by the fire and at least 100 structures have been destroyed so far.

On this week's Evening News Magazine we have updates on this year’s largest wildfire in California, the Park Fire, burning in Butte and Tehama Counties.

What decisions will Federal Reserve policy makers make regarding interest rates and what does that mean for US consumers? KVMR’s Paul Emory and former Fed Economist Gary Zimmerman tackle these questions in this week’s Economic Report.

KVMR News Director Cláudio Mendonça speaks with a University of Southern California researcher whose team has recently developed a wildfire behavioral model that uses artificial intelligence to better predict its likely path, intensity and growth rate.

We close with an essay by Nevada City poet Molly Fisk.

KVMR News Director Cláudio Mendonça speaks with a University of Southern California researcher whose team has recently developed a wildfire behavioral model that uses artificial intelligence to better predict its likely path, intensity and growth rate.

Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey announced the arrest came after an unknown male was seen pushing a car on fire into a gully in upper Bidwell Park east of Chico shortly before 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the day the fire started.

Applications for the free 12-week NCSO Community Academy will be accepted until August 7th. Classes will take place at the Rood Center in Nevada City every Wednesday from August 14th to October 30th. Learn more online NevadaCountyCa.gov.

The Community Food Campus at Mautino Park would include a Community Composting Facility, an educational garden, and a "Food Forest" all run by the Interfaith Food Ministry, as well as the relocation of Sierra Harvest’s Food Love Farm.