Franklin County Auditor Matt Beaton, SOS Steve Hobbs, Benton County Auditor Brenda Chilton Listen (Runtime 1:27) Read Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs is touring counties in Washington to meet […]Read More
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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
Benton County Image Listen (Runtime 1:44) Read Benton County Commissioners purchased the old Kennewick General Hospital, l K–G–H building. The Three Rivers Behavioral Health Recovery Center is to become the […]Read More
Wood smoke is dispersed into canopy covered wine grapes for 36 hours in order to measure how wildfire smoke affects grapes and wine flavors in Prosser, Washington June 2021. (Photo […]Read More
People take boat tours throught the Columbia River during the Hanford Journey, to celebrate cleanup advocacy. Credit: Bear Sky Media. Read As the Hanford cleanup budget has been reduced in […]Read More
Amazon made news this month by announcing it will start package deliveries by aerial drone to real customers in a northern California town. In the run up to the U.S. debut, the company conducted extensive flight tests in Eastern Oregon, where it experienced a spate of crashes. Amazon said Monday the upcoming rollout of commercial drone delivery signifies the refined Read More
Mosquito Spray at dusk Listen (Runtime 1:56) Read Mosquito control is serious business in Eastern Washington. And the office in charge is the Benton County Mosquito District. Steve Ingalls has […]Read More
Small live show Listen (Runtime 2:40) Read In the eighties and nineties the Tri-Cities played a unique role in the alternative music scene. The All Ages Show documentary features music […]Read More
Yakima County Sheriff Robert Udell, Yakima County Sheriff, held a press conference to discuss the ptalk about the Regional Criminal Intelligence Center proposal. Photo from live streaming via Facebook. Read […]Read More
Governor Inslee hopes to embed those rights in the state constitution.Read More
Northwest Abortion providers and access funds say they’re already accommodating patients who have lost access to the procedure in their home states.Read More
Both states are known for liberal and robust legal frameworks protecting the right to abortion with few restrictions, but advocates on both sides point out that laws can changeRead More
A receptionist at Planned Parenthood Spokane talks to a coworker Listen: Reporter Rachel Sun on the impact of planned restrictive abortion laws in Idaho / Runtime: 1:56 This piece was […]Read More
Hannah George poses for a photo with one of her children | Courtesy Hannah George Listen [3:43min] In Idaho, some women are looking at these long-term birth control options and […]Read More
The Bell M. Shimada is designed to gather scientific information. But the collaborative effort of the crew and officers makes scientific endeavors at sea possible.Read More
One single-celled oceanic organism could provide big answers to questions about climate change.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
Phytoplankton make up an extremely important part of the ocean’s food chain, serving as food for organisms that feed young salmon and other fish in the ocean.Read More
Mason County Auditor Paddy McGuire has spent nearly two decades helping run elections, including stints as Oregon deputy secretary of state and at the Department of Defense, ensuring military service members overseas could vote.Read More
A cargo ship arrives at the port of Seattle. Food meant for export has been left at Northwest ports, says Senator Cantwell. (AP Photo) Listen New federal funding from a […]Read More
Listen (Runtime 1:11) Read Ellie Zeron Martinez is owner and winemaker of Zeron Vineyards near Benton City. She predicts 2022 will be a good year for wine. Grapes have benefitted […]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
Scientists aboard the Bell M. Shimada keep an eye out for whales. One scientist hopes to help predict where whales will show up by studying the food they eat.Read More
At least twice a year, a team of scientists on NOAA's research vessel Bell M. Shimada survey waters along the Washington and Oregon coast.Read More
Solar power installations on home rooftops are surging in Oregon and Washington state. Alongside, you may have noticed an uptick in ads pitching rooftop solar, or even gotten an in-person solicitation. Some of the sales pitches contain dubious or potentially misleading claims. And now, consumer watchdogs are urging homeowners to do their homework before signing any contract.Read More
The top Democrat and the top Republican in the Washington state Senate called Thursday for elected Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, a 78-year-old, six-term Democrat, to resign.Read More
The office of Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fired a top aide who in February formally complained that Kreidler had bullied him, used crass language and was increasingly “antagonizing staff.”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
Kimberly Starr’s son, Tom, died by suicide when he was in high school. Kimberly now does prevention outreach to help others. Listen (Runtime 2:26) Read It is common for people […]Read More
As prices continue to climb across the country, the Northwest is seeing big price hikes for rentals, too. Listen Correspondent Lauren Paterson reports on what the latest data on average […]Read More
Family and Friends Celebrating Juneteenth Listen (Runtime 1:24) Read The longest running Juneteenth celebration in Washington is in Pasco. Back in 1978 there was a reunion for family and friends […]Read More
Georgia On My Mind-Margot Massey Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read In the Tri Cities, a Kamiakin High School rising senior won a statewide art award. Margot Massey’s painting is titled “Georgia […]Read More
Scottish Festival and Highland Games Listen (Runtime :58) Read The Scottish Festival and Highland Games have been a tradition in Prosser for 20 years. The festival includes music, food, and […]Read More
As the housing crisis continues across the Northwest, only three counties in Washington are affordable for first time homebuyers. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Listen What does “taking care of your […]Read More
The labor shortage among Northwest farms is nothing new, but Mike Gempler of the Washington Growers’ League is hopeful agriculture tech could help. Listen (Runtime 1:03) Read It’s no secret […]Read More
A Northwest adventure race that some call "the best worst idea" has returned after a long, pandemic hiatus. The 2022 running of the Race to Alaska for engineless boats cast off at the first light of dawn Monday amid high winds in the Strait of Juan de Fuca that the organizers characterized as “between seasick and dangerous.”Read More
Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho Pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with […]Read More
Breaching the dams would be the best way to remove Snake River salmon runs from the Endangered Species List and the best way to maintain treaty and trust obligations with tribes, according to the report. It could cost from $10.3 billion to $27.2 billion.Read More
A huge dress rehearsal for regional earthquake disaster relief was supposed to happen next week until the ongoing pandemic forced its cancellation. The scrubbed Cascadia Rising exercise would have involved more than 22,000 participants – chiefly U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen as well as state, local and tribal emergency planners. Some smaller drills are going ahead this Read More
CREDIT: Allen4names Listen (Runtime 2:41) Read Residents of Benton and Franklin counties are going to have fewer transportation options if the Ben Franklin Transit Board approves a plan to cut […]Read More
First time homebuyers in Washington are struggling to afford their first house. Listen Housing prices were ticking up in the Northwest before the pandemic as COVID removed reasons to be […]Read More
Poster about heat related illness. Credit: www.weather.gov. Listen NWPB’s Johanna Bejarano reports on heat prevention (Runtime 0:52) Read High temperatures are expected across the country but not as severe in […]Read More
A new report by the pharmaceutical provider NiceRx ranked Washington and Idaho sixth and seventh respectively for states with the highest prevalence of mental health problems. It ranked each state […]Read More
A photo of the new dental operatory at the Snake River Community Clinic in Lewiston. Courtesy of the Snake River Community Clinic. Read The Snake River Community Clinic in Lewiston […]Read More
Travis Myklebust pulls out different components of what he calls the “big three” for overdose responses: the drug box, which includes injectable Naloxone, the airway bank, and the cardiac and […]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
Rainier cherries in the Northwest bloomed after the snow, so the crop should be stronger. (Photo courtesy of the Washington State Fruit Commission) Listen Snow fell throughout the Northwest in […]Read More
How do you grow plants in space? Soil from the Lower Yakima Valley could help provide some key answers.Read More
Four members of the U.S. Congress recently got a close look at Washington’s Snake River dams.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
