Cow Canyon Fire 60% Contained

By Lauren Gallup
Colored graphic of a tree with flames surrounding it.
The Cow Canyon fire, burning near the border of Yakima and Kittitas counties, is now 60% contained. Joel Brumm, public information officer for the fire incident command team, says crews have continued to make progress on the containment lines and extinguishing residual fire to reduce spread. Read More

Pushing Back On The Gentrification Of The Hilltop

By Lauren Gallup
The new light rail expansion stop in the Hilltop, one of the many recent developments in this Tacoma neighborhood. Photo by Lauren Gallup.
Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood is a place where generations have raised families, where small businesses have blossomed and where art intersects with your local corner mart. But it's also a neighborhood where residents have faced systemic racism in the form of redlining, where the FBI monitored the sidewalks in the late 90s, and where gentrification is displacing longtime Read More

Greening Up A Formerly Redlined Neighborhood

By Lauren Gallup
Ailene Ettinger with the Nature Conservancy installs a device to track air temperature on a utility pole in South Tacoma this January. Photo by Courtney Baxter.
On an early and rainy June day, Ailene Ettinger is using a power drill to install a small, metal device on a utility pole. The device is a temperature logger, housed under a white rectangular UV radiation shield. Once installed, it constantly measures air temperature in this South Tacoma neighborhood, sending the data via Bluetooth to an app that Ettinger checks on her phone.Read More

StoryCorps Is Coming To Moses Lake

By Lauren Gallup
Logo for StoryCorps
StoryCorps has a simple, but powerful mission. “Basically what we wanted to do was provide a space for people to have meaningful conversations, meaningful recorded conversations with people that they care about, and have access to those conversations,” says Danielle Andersen, director of the StoryCorps mobile tour. Read More

The Fight For Legacy Forests, Part Seven: Where Timber Goes, And The People Behind The Industry

By Lauren Gallup
Logs delivered from forested land across Washington State waits to begin its journey to wood product at the Sierra Pacific Industries Mill in Centraila, Washington on April 7, 2022.
Washington is the second largest producer of timber in the United States, according to the state department of commerce, and it is the third largest manufacturing industry in the state. In the seventh story of the Fight for Legacy Forests series, NWPB’s Lauren Gallup visits a timber mill in Centralia to find out what people working in the timber industry think of Read More

Rising Freight, Fuel Prices Impacting Washington Cannabis Industry — But Will Consumers See Their Dispensary Costs Rise?

By Lauren Gallup
A field growing marijuana, image from Pixabay.
Growers, and those that transport cannabis across the state, are being hit by rising fuel prices — after a year of rising prices for freight. This, plus a new state pesticide testing requirement, have some questioning if retailers will raise their prices to balance out costs to the industry, to keep recreational marijuana alive in the state.Read More
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