The League of Women Voters is calling on Congress to take action against what it sees as President Trump’s overreach of power. In a letter signed by all 50 state chapters and the Washington, D.C. chapter, the organization urged lawmakers from both parties to use their authority as a check on the president and help restore stability to the country.Read More
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Vitalant in Lewiston, Idaho is one of several regional locations that collects blood donations. (Courtesy: Vitalant) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read Blood banks in the Northwest reported a drop in blood […]Read More
Many USDA researchers working in the Northwest are fired, worked on everything from hops to potatoes
Francisco Gonzalez, a Ph.D. researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture who was stationed at Washington State University’s Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, has been fired by […]Read More
The film, “Not One Drop of Blood,” highlights the communities trying to solve the decades-long mystery of cattle mutilation. (Courtesy: Jackson Devereux and Lachlan Hinton) Listen (Runtime 6:00) Read Phineas […]Read More
Fire crews spray water on rubble at the Lineage Logistics fire in Finley, Wash. The fire started on April 21. (Credit: Benton County Fire District #1) Listen (Runtime 1:06) Read […]Read More
NAOMI volunteers create community with women working to overcome trauma. (Credit: NAOMI) Read By Rose Owens, FāVS News About 95% of people struggling with addiction have experienced trauma, according to […]Read More
Kyle Warden holds a crosscut saw attached to an American flag. He was a former lead wilderness ranger and was terminated on Sunday. He went to a protest at Memorial […]Read More
A new bill could put an end to a more than 50-year-old medical training program in Idaho. On Friday, people gathered in Boise to rally against those changes.Read More
Dustin McCauley fills out a worksheet as Ricky Aguilar teaches the Ready to Rent course. (Credit: Susan Shain / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 1:02) Read On a rainy Wednesday, Ricky Aguilar […]Read More
Mountain peaks are reflected in the waters of Lake Colchuk, located in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. Smoke from a nearby wildfire hangs in the air. (Credit: Theresa Rivers) Listen […]Read More
Washington state lawmakers still can’t pass bills to allow for some legal access to psychedelics.
With Feb. 21 as the cutoff for bills to move out of policy committees, two pieces of legislation that would have allowed regulated and supervised access to psilocybin for adults won't be moving forward — Senate Bill 5201 and House Bill 1433. The bills faced opposition from Read More
El Concejo de Sunnyside aprobó un aumento del 2% en el impuesto de servicios públicos. El incremento ayudará a abrir la piscina de la comunidad este año.Read More
Washington State University students protested the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns during a protest on Wednesday. (Credit: Connor Henricksen / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 0:58) Read About 100 students gathered at Washington […]Read More
Sunnyside's City Council has approved a 2% utility tax increase to keep the community pool open this year.Read More
(Credit: Anna King / NWPB) About a dozen federal workers have been fired from the Hanford site in southeast Washington state. Hanford is the contaminated legacy of plutonium manufacturing during […]Read More
People listen to an introductory presentation on the water supply study findings at an open house-style meeting in Pasco. After they listened to the presentation, they could look at posters […]Read More
The Idaho state flag hangs in the Idaho State Capitol in Boise. Two different bills in the Idaho Legislature could bring Bible reading and the Ten Commandments to public schools. […]Read More
Chris Aquino, un joven futbolista de Tri-Cities, está jugando en México. El ex centrocampista del Tacoma Defiance forma ahora parte del FC Juárez Sub-23, que juega en la Liga MX, la liga mexicana de fútbol.Read More
Smart Transit buses are parked on Tuesday at the Moscow Intermodal Transit Center. (Credit: Liesbeth Powers / The Moscow-Pullman Daily News) Listen (Runtime 1:16) Read A three-day service outage earlier […]Read More
Brothers Sephen and Davante Martinez watch a presentation by nonprofit Spark Northwest project manager Haya Muñoz, center, at St. Michael’s Episcopal Mission in Yakima. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / NWPB) Listen […]Read More
While hiking, Nancy Lust, with Friends of Rocky Top, watches a truck dump waste into a landfill in Yakima County. Lust lives near the landfill and has fought to learn […]Read More
Chris Aquino, a young soccer player from the Tri-Cities, has begun playing in Mexico. The former Tacoma Defiance midfielder is now part of FC Juarez Under-23, which plays in the Mexican soccer league's Liga MX.Read More
El Museo REACH de Richland presenta una nueva exposición titulada “Migration to Community”, que destaca las contribuciones de los hispanos y latinos en Hanford. Read More
A newly approved prison education program is helping inmates in Orofino, Pocatello and Boise prepare gain confidence and prepare for life after they’ve served timeRead More
Bella looks to a peanut butter jar. She participated at a craft night at Ground Control on Feb. 11. (Credit: Renee Diaz / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 0:56) Read In honor […]Read More
Inside the storefront of Johnson Candy Company, there are hundreds of heart-shaped boxes of chocolates.
Gift-wrapped boxes are stacked up on a table behind display cases. Open boxes show off sweet concoctions, propped up on shelves or set out below hanging red and pink decorations. Cellophane-wrapped goodies sit on top of glass windows displaying squares of chocolate Read More
People gather to protest against the Trump administration and Project 2025 near the Washington State Capitol building on Feb. 5, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. (Credit: Lindsey Wasson / AP) Listen […]Read More
Rivaldo Penado, 13, leads a shadow boxing drill at Purpose Boxing Club in Wenatchee. (Credit: Jacob Ford / Wenatchee World) Listen (Runtime 0:52) Read A new nonprofit gym in Wenatchee, […]Read More
The Reach Museum in Richland is featuring a new exhibition called Migration to Community, which highlights the contributions of Hispanics and Latinos at Hanford. Read More
There are only so many things employees get to have a say over in their jobs. Which laptops or messaging app your office uses might not be your call.
For a while, decisions on the use of technology in the workplace have been up to management for public workers in Washington state, thanks to a law passed in 2002. But now, some lawmakers want to pass an exemption that Read More
A home and outbuildings didn’t burn during a fast-moving fire. Some people are worrying more about homeowners policy cancellations in Washington state, as wildfire risk grows. (Credit: Bryan Flint / […]Read More
Nez Perce tribal members Renee Holt and Crescentia Hills see the mural of the Nez Perce creation story for the first time at a library event on Feb. 6, 2025. […]Read More
A group from Wenatchee gathered in Olympia to advocate for immigrant rights on Jan. 30. Clockwise from left, Liz Oropeza Palacios, Ivon Lopez Ramirez, Maria Gonzalez, Grace Mondragon and Zoe […]Read More
FILE – In this 2010 file photo, chickens stand in their cages at Maine Contract Farming in Turner, Maine. Another farm in Franklin County, Washington has had to recently euthanize […]Read More
Lisa Keohokalole Schauer, left, Washington State University Board of Regents chair, listens to Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell speak as the newly appointed WSU president Thursday at a regents meeting in Pullman. […]Read More
A union that represents Boeing employees is taking issue with how the company handled the layoff of 660 of its members last year.
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) believes contract violations occurred during last year’s layoffs. The union said they have notified Boeing and are investigating further. Read More
Two hospitals serving mostly rural areas in Idaho could become more expensive for patients with a major health insurance provider. Read More
Seattle será una de las sedes de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026. Sin embargo, la fiesta del fútbol se extenderá a las comunidades locales, con zonas para aficionados que se instalarán a algunas partes del estado de Washington.Read More
Scientists examine a large volume spring in young volcanic rocks of the McKenzie River watershed on the west side of the Cascade crest in the Willamette National Forest. It was […]Read More
Seattle is one of the host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. However, the soccer party will extend to local communities, with fan zones coming to parts of Washington state. Read More
More than 100 people attended a march for immigrant rights in Walla Walla on Feb. 3, 2025. (Credit: Susan Shain / NWPB) Listen (Runtime :58) Read CORRECTION: This article has […]Read More
Janis Little, left, Sumiko Takeda, middle, and Stevie Westberg, right, paint watercolor flowers during a class at Kamiah River Arts on Feb. 1, 2025. (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen […]Read More
People shouted “si se puede” or “yes we can” on the Washington state Capitol steps during an immigrants’ rights rally on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (Credit: Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / […]Read More
A close-up of the thumbnail-sized invasive quagga and zebra mussels found on a tugboat in January. (Credit: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) Read It was a close call along […]Read More
The decades-long project to widen Highway 12 between Burbank and Walla Walla has received a large grant that could lead to its completion. (Credit: Washington State Department of Transportation) Listen […]Read More
A transmission line silhouetted by blue sky. The Yakama Nation is planning a new sort of battery, called advanced rail energy storage. (Credit: Austin Taylor / Flickr Creative Commons) Listen […]Read More
Autoridades municipales de Sunnyside, Washington, confirmaron que agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos están llevando a cabo operaciones en la ciudad.Read More
Tacoma has joined a number of Washington cities and at least one county in a growing movement to make enforcing activities related to the use of psychoactive substances, such as psilocybin mushrooms, a lower priority for law enforcement.
On Tuesday, the Tacoma City Council unanimously passed a resolution to lower enforcement priorities for entheogen-related activities. Read More
City officials in Sunnyside, Washington, confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are conducting operations in the city.Read More
Farmers, and a future farmer, regard a new John Deere swather at RDO, a large tractor dealership in Pasco. (Credit: Anna King / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 4:07) Read In Pasco […]Read More