Geheim Gallery introduced Seattleites to artists from Bellingham this weekend. Lauren Gallup caught up with the owner and an artist at the Seattle Art Fair. Read More
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
A case brought against the Washington State Department of Natural Resources has been decided in the department’s favor.Read More
State superintendent Chris Reykdal announced his plan yesterday to change how school construction across the state is funded.Read More
The Tacoma Mall Neighborhood has seen health impacts from a lack of green space. Now a warehouse proposal the city is considering has some residents concerned that the problems will only get worse.Read More
Later this summer, Tacoma’s downtown Tollefson Plaza will be transformed into the first Black Lives Matter mural sanctioned by the city and other partners. The project is designed to acknowledge police brutality of Black people and racial inequities that came to nationwide attention after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Read More
The Tacoma Mall Neighborhood has less green space and tree canopy than most of the city — and because of this, higher temperatures, which can cause illness and even death. The Greening Research in Tacoma, or GRIT project, is hoping to involve residents in efforts to curb these detriments.Read More
Pacific Lutheran University is planning to sell the old Parkland School building in Pierce County, but residents want to save the building for a community center.Read More
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
For Lidiya Clear, Ukraine and its people are always at the top of her mind and heart.
“I'm Ukrainian. I've lived in this country for quite a few years, but my soul, my mind, everything is in Ukraine, especially since the war broke out,” Clear says. Read More
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
WSU researchers and an eco-building startup in Tacoma are teaming up to create affordable and sustainable roofing for consumers across the world. They have a goal— to make roofing material that is sustainable, adaptable to different parts of the world, and affordable for people living on less than $5 a day. Read More
There are lots of ways to celebrate Juneteenth weekend in Tacoma this year.
“There's no excuse for anyone not to celebrate Juneteenth because our city is going to be full of festivities,” says Candace Wesley, one of the organizers of Tacoma’s Juneteenth 253 Celebration.Read More
For artist RYAN! Feddersen, art is a form of communication; a way to understand the world and a catalyst for meditation.
“A lot of my interest in art was about making things for community, as a way to interpret our world,” Feddersen says.Read More
Umi Wagoner says he’s not a scone guy.
Wagoner is, however, a lifelong fan of The Taste of Tacoma, an event traditionally held over a summer weekend, in Point Defiance Park, with food vendors, arts and knick knacks for perusing and live music.Read More
In an effort to bring awareness with art, artists have been creating portraits of people detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma since 2020. The portraits are posted on La Resistencia’s social media accounts, an organization working to end detentions and deportations.Read More
Visitors are once again allowed in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. Lauren Gallup reports it’s been more than two years since detained immigrants have received visitors to the facility.Read More
In the year 2005, Trenton Quiocho was a Tacoma high school student who signed up for a glassblowing elective. The class, taught by the organization Hilltop Artists, would set him on a trajectory to a career in glass art. Read More
In the last of our series, The Fight for Legacy Forests, NWPB’s Lauren Gallup reports on reactions to the carbon project on state lands, which will protect some older forests from harvest. Read More
Thirteen people at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma are on a hunger strike. Lauren Gallup reports. Read More
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
Bargaining efforts which began last July for grocery store workers across the West Coast have brought a tentative agreement to members of Local 367 in Western Washington.Read More
Tacoma has some of the highest cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People nationwide. Pierce County council members voted to establish an awareness day of this issue. Read More
Harriet Bullitt, Washington philanthropist, broadcast executive and environmental champion, died April 23 at the age of 97. NWPB’s Sueann Ramella remembers her lasting legacy across the Pacific Northwest. Read More
Defensores de inmigrantes piden que ICE vuelva a permitir visitas en centros de detenciónRead More
This week in the sixth story of “The Fight for Legacy Forests” series, Lauren Gallups reports on how some communities are worried about losing money from timber harvests, which pay for services they need. Read More
Immigration advocates are calling for detention centers to reinstate visitation rights that were taken away in March 2020 because of the pandemicRead More
This Earth Day, you don’t have to go any further than the Tacoma mall to find yourself in a forest. Lauren Gallup reports. Read More
NWPB’s Lauren Gallup continues her series “The Fight for Legacy Forests” with reporting on an environmental nonprofit suing the Department of Natural Resources over six timber sales. Read More
April is national poetry month. NWPB’s Lauren Gallup interviewed Tacoma’s poet laureate on the art form, and its lasting influence.Read More
The Beaver Valley Sorts timber sale in Jefferson County will go to auction this July, months later than expected. Lauren Gallup reports the delay is meant to address environmental concerns of county commissioners and residents.Read More
Concerns about habitat for the Marbled Murrelet may have touched off the current fight for legacy forests / Photo: USFWS Listen NWPB’s Lauren Gallup continues her series “The Fight For […]Read More
The Washington Department of Natural Resources manages 3 million acres of forest land / Photo by Olena Sergienko, Unsplash In this Facebook Live Reporter Debrief, Northwest Public Broadcasting reporter Lauren […]Read More
Pierce County is seeking to improve their coordinated entry system for housing assistance. One method they’re trying is through funding for so-called cultural hubs. Read More
The Washington Department of Natural Resources manages 3 million acres of forest land / Photo by Olena Sergienko, Unsplash Listen In Part Three of her series on “The Fight For […]Read More
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
A HUD pilot program looks at ways of improving aid to help for homelessness in minority communities Listen NWPB’s Lauren Gallup looks at a pilot program aimed at better helping […]Read More
The Washington Department of Natural Resources manages 3 million acres of forest land / Photo by Olena Sergienko, Unsplash Listen In the 2nd of her 8-part series “The Fight For […]Read More
A revised edition of a book on the Chinese experience in Washington State is set to be released Listen NWPB’s Lauren Gallup reports on a revision of a book that […]Read More
A popular Tacoma crafts store is hit by post-pandemic and economic factors Listen NWPB’s Lauren Gallup reports on a popular Tacoma store hit by online sales and post-pandemic return to […]Read More
A battle is raging over how the DNR is managing and selling logging rights to state forest lands Listen NWPB reporter Lauren Gallup introduces us to her 8-part series on […]Read More
Israel Arrascue, a man who had been detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, was deported to Peru on February 28, according to Maru Mora-Villapando, of the immigrant advocacy organization La Resistencia.Read More
Speed boats, tugboats, cruise ships and any other watercraft operating in Puget Sound will soon have to comply with a new federal No Discharge Zone.Read More
The Keep Washington Evergreen bill died in session. Read More
The Move Ahead Washington transportation package was announced February 8.Read More
The pandemic is still churning, but as we round the corner on its second year, we can look back on how we’ve adapted, created and lived. One mark of this perseverance is the rollout of the Tacoma Creates program, the first program in Washington state under recent Cultural Access Legislation. Read More
COVID cases continue to rise at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. Read More
This Wednesday, four Ukrainian nationals contacted La Resistencia to alert the grassroots immigrant advocacy group of their upcoming deportations from the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.Read More
What does the public think about the Keep Washington Evergreen bill? NWPB’s Lauren Gallup reports on testimony heard at Washington’s Rural Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources committee.Read More
Washington State’s superintendent Chris Reykdahl wants people to stop using the argument that schools need revenue from timber to justify the sales.Read More
