Morel mushrooms gathered this past weekend near Leavenworth, Wash. by Emily Conklin. Listen Journalist Lauren Paterson tells us why now is the time to start mushroom hunting in the Pacific […]Read More
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Some parents with kids in crisis in Washington are making a heart wrenching decision. They’re sending their children to out-of-state therapeutic boarding schools. And taxpayers are picking up the tab. While these are outlier cases, they highlight ongoing gaps in in-state services — gaps that were laid bare during the COVID pandemic.Read More
Randy Brooks, a University of Idaho professor and extension forestry specialist, poses for a portrait in the College of Natural Resources building. Zach Wilkinson/The Lewiston Tribune Listen Randy Brooks, a […]Read More
Starting June 1 people 18 and under can ride free. Listen (Runtime :47) Read Ben Franklin Transit–BFT– around Benton and Franklin counties, will offer free rides for all people eighteen […]Read More
Silenced by Morgan Greene Listen (Runtime :46) Read A Yakima A.C. Davis High School senior has won a Congressional Art Competition with her depiction of a woman and the symbol […]Read More
Ukrainian student Kateryna Debera shares Ukrainian foods and culture. Listen Ukrainian and American students learn about each other’s cultures while the Russian invasion continues. (Runtime 3:52) Read Students from King Danylo […]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
E-scooters are available in Wenatchee. Photo from www.wenatcheewa.gov. Read People in Wenatchee can use scooters for transportation starting this week. Eighty to 100 scooters will be in service around the […]Read More
The young daughter of Anessia Scott interacts with the traveling totem. Anessia, who is a descendant of the Nez Perce and Blackfoot tribes, says she wants her daughter to learn […]Read More
Avian Flu Sweeping Through Washington State, Carried By Migrating BirdsRead More
Foster Families Needed - May Is Foster Care Awareness MonthRead More
An Australian company is eying property next to the soon-to-close coal power plant in Centralia, Washington, to build a big hydrogen fuel production facility. Fortescue Future Industries went public with its plans during a hydrogen symposium hosted by the Economic Alliance of Lewis County on Thursday.Read More
Thirteen people at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma are on a hunger strike. Lauren Gallup reports. Read More
City Of Yakima Will No Longer Display Private FlagRead More
Getting All Kids Involved, The Richland School District Annual Field Day ReturnsRead More
Neighbors Question Recovery Center Board On ‘Oxford House’Read More
Riding Horseback To Bring Awareness Of Wild Mustang AdoptionRead More
There are more questions than answers in the case of a missing former foster child from Grays Harbor County. Five-year-old Oakley Carlson has been unaccounted for since February of last year. Police say her parents aren’t cooperating with the investigation. Oakley’s former foster mom questions why Oakley was sent back to live with her parents after more than two years in Read More
Hazard Pay Helps Recruit Wildland Rirefighters In IdahoRead More
Drone Technology, Sustainability Key To Grape And Wine Research In Washington For 2022Read More
Families Gathered For Healing And Justice For MMIWPRead 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
CHAS Staff Say Unhoused Patients Need More Affordable Housing, Mental Health ServicesRead More
The place where salmon spend most of their lives also is the place scientists know the least about: the ocean.Read More
The U.S. Forest Service has okayed a plan to develop what would be the first overnight tourist facilities within the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, including camping, cabins and a lodge.Read More
MMIW/P’s families gathered at Toppenish to honor loved ones. Photo: Johanna Bejarano. Read Family members joined in Toppenish to honor their relatives on the Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness […]Read More
Matt Forge was named Pullman Regional Hospital’s incoming CEO After more than a year of searching, the Pullman Regional Hospital Board of Commissioners has named Matt Forge the incoming Chief […]Read More
Pandemic Relief Expiring Means Northwest Children Will Miss Healthy School MealsRead More
Close to 200 federal, state and tribal emergency preparedness planners gathered around a giant map of the Pacific Northwest this week to rehearse and critique the federal response plan for "The Big One." The three-day Cascadia earthquake discussion exercise partially replaced a much bigger planned dress rehearsal that was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.Read More
Three large opioid distributors will pay the state of Washington $476 million as part of an agreement to end litigation that began more than three years ago.Read More
San Francisco Bay area company Sila Nanotechnologies purchased a vacant factory in Moses Lake, Washington, and announced plans Tuesday to open a big operation there to produce advanced battery materials to power electric cars.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
Checking Vineyard Soil Moisture Now Can Save Grapes LaterRead 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
Fewer people in the Northwest are learning to hunt, which causes funding problems for state fish and wildlife departments. To solve the funding problem, experienced hunters are teaching newbies how to get involved in the sport.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
More Inclusive Data To Better Serve CommunitiesRead More
Private electric utilities in the Pacific Northwest are planning tens of millions of dollars in upgrades to reduce the risk that their power lines could spark wildfires during extreme weather. Utilities such as Pacific Power, Avista, Idaho Power, Portland General Electric and Puget Sound Energy are either required to or are voluntarily submitting wildfire mitigation plans. Read More
A recent salmon field trip has helped students become more curious about salmon.Read More
Local Health Care Provider Says Rate Of Homeless Patients Increased During PandemicRead More
Idaho Program Offers Free Diapers, Wipes To Mothers Who Quit SmokingRead More
Doug Towles of Clearwater
County is charged with ‘permitting animals to go without
care.” Dozens of his cattle have been found dead or
starving. They’ve also been found on his neighbors’ property.Read More
A grassroots organization is planning a music night on Friday to benefit humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.Read 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
A Sumner, Washington seafood company that makes imitation crab and other products has been fined $56,000 in connection with a 2021 COVID outbreak that left one employee dead.Read More
In recent years, Washington’s Legislature has grown more diverse. And majority Democrats have emphasized diversity and equity as core values. But now three members of color, out of nearly 30, are stepping down from the Legislature after serving just one full term. One of them describes the legislative work environment as toxic.Read More
Alcohol and blood donation don't seem at first glance to go together. But that pairing is one of several creative strategies deployed by major Pacific Northwest blood centers to drum up more donors this spring.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
