The Shasta County Board of Supervisors is doubling down on their opposition to a new state law barring hand-counting ballots in elections in counties with more than 1,000 registered voters. NSPR spoke with the county clerk and registrar of voters about the difficulty of hand-counting and the ban. Also, The Chico City Council will reconvene tomorrow after the last meeting was canceled due to issues with the chamber’s audio system, and California is set to receive more than $1 billion from the U.S. Department of Energy in a nationwide campaign to build regional hydrogen energy hubs.