Aaron Quaempts wears a knotted white scarf with colorful flowers draped around his neck. Listen Read Across Indian country people are wearing brightly colored scarves and taking selfies for social […]Read More
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The Sixteen year State Transportation package has passed through the Senate Transportation Committee and held a public hearing recently. An Eastern Washington Commissioner is raising alarming concerns regarding the bill. Are Gas powered vehicles going to be allowed? Read More
Northwest officials are preparing in case a radiological event should occur anywhere in the world. Their task would be to detect it, understand what it is and where it came from and tell the public how to respond. Read More
Washington State is looking to attract more film making to the state Listen Read The Washington Legislature looks set to invite more movie sets. A proposed increase in motion picture […]Read More
Plug-in cars charge up at the Washington State Capitol Campus. CREDIT: TOM BANSE Listen Read If you were holding off buying an electric car in hopes of getting a generous […]Read More
File picture of a Ukranian tank brigade Listen Read Armed only with Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp, Ukrainians living in the Northwest watch in horror as the Russian invasion of their […]Read More
For Corey Dembeck, there is something magical about Palouse Falls State Park. “It’s the Grand Canyon of Washington,” said Dembeck, Olympia resident and founder of Sojournlist, a travel blog. Read More
Richland high school student Augustin Dulauroy directed a film about Hanford that debuts on Amazon Prime Listen Read A Richland high schooler has been hard at work on his side-gig […]Read More
The Tri-Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Department of Humans Services are coordinating to do the Annual Point in Time count this Thursday. Point-In-Time counts inform the agencies on how many individual homeless people are living in our community.Read More
The 400-mile Olympic Pipeline carries gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from refineries in northern Washington state, such as BP Cherry Point shown here, to a distribution hub in Portland, Oregon. […]Read More
The Tri-Cities prepare to hit the streets to count the homeless population Listen Read The Tri-Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Department of Humans Services are coordinating to do the […]Read More
In an act of labor solidarity, scores of Democratic staffers in the Washington Legislature staged a “sick-out” Wednesday after a bill that would have allowed them to unionize failed to advance before a key cutoff deadline.Read More
Listen Read Two different school districts in the Columbia Basin are reviewing books in their libraries. Both Kennewick and Walla Walla school districts have had community complaints regarding several books. […]Read More
Families of prisoners in Washington worry about COVID health impacts on inmates Listen Read As Washington State goes deeper into its third year of the pandemic, families of imprisoned people […]Read More
More natural gas could be pumped through Washington State to meet demand Listen Read By Bradley Parks The Canadian company T-C Energy wants to increase the flow of natural gas […]Read More
The Washington Attorney General has banned an Illinois company from conducting COVID testing in Washington. Read More
Read The Richland School Board Thursday evening voted to allow children to go back in-person and to follow the Governor’s Mask Mandate on a vote of 4 to 1. This […]Read More
Gov. Inslee has announced Washington's indoor mask mandate will end on March 21,with a few exceptions Read More
Tom Carpenter, the man who headed the Hanford Challenge, and was a thorn in the side of many politicians, is retiring from the organization. Read More
In an act of labor solidarity, scores of Democratic staffers in the Washington Legislature staged a “sick-out” Wednesday after a bill that would have allowed them to unionize failed to advance before a key cutoff deadline.Read More
Richland Washington public schools were in an emergency closure Wednesday, and will be closed again Thursday.Read More
Efforts to keep a toothy, invasive fish behind Grand Coulee Dam are paying off.Read More
A measure backed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee that would have made it a crime for elected officials and candidates for office to incite lawlessness by making false statements about elections appears to have died in the state Legislature.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
After more than 20 years of photographing the pacific northwest, Rajah Bose considers himself an “insider.”Read More
Each year the Forest Service needs people to help campers and visitors make the most of their visit, check in to their camping spot, and maintain campground facilities. These are the duties of a ‘campground host.’Read More
When February was dedicated as American Heart Month over 50 years ago, it followed a steep rise in heart disease in the 20th century.Read More
Franklin County Commissioner Clint Didier said in a public meeting that a state trooper north of Pasco told him homeless people were being bussed in from Seattle. Didier claims he was by the 395 overpass.Read More
As states from Oregon to New York announce plans to end mask mandates, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday announced that he’s lifting outdoor masking requirements and plans to announce next week a date when the face-covering rules for public indoor spaces and schools will be lifted.Read More
Democrats in charge of the Washington Legislature are proposing a new tax on gasoline and diesel fuel destined for Oregon, Idaho and Alaska to partially pay for a cornucopia of highway, transit, rail, bike trail and ferry construction across Washington state. The "exported fuel tax" was included in a transportation spending and revenue package unveiled Tuesday in Olympia.Read More
Local police say the man who shot two people Monday at a crowded Richland Fred Meyer grocery store had been experiencing declining mental health for weeks.Read More
The Move Ahead Washington transportation package was announced February 8.Read More
One in three U.S. teens have experienced violence from a dating partner. Physical, psychological, and digital abuse are common abuser's behavior. During February, organizations in Washington raise awareness and work to prevent teen dating violence.Read More
Richland police officials say the shooting suspect has been apprehended on his way north to Spokane from the Tri-Cities late Monday night. Police haven’t yet released the names of the victims. The injured person was last known to be in critical condition Monday.Read More
One man died and another man was injured in a shooting at a Fred Meyer grocery store in Richland, Washington.Read More
Education District 123 covers Benton and Franklin county and has the highest Covid case rates in Washington state. Mitigation efforts at local schools from masking and distancing continue, but some school board members are pushing back against those measuresRead 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
As the 2022 midterm elections loom, a partisan battle over access to the ballot box continues to be fought in Congress and in state legislatures across the country. Red states are passing new restrictions, while many blue states are making voting more accessible. That includes Washington.Read More
A complex deal is taking shape to revive the Pacific Northwest's last remaining aluminum smelter. Alcoa idled its Intalco Works smelter near Ferndale, Washington, a year-and-a-half ago and laid off virtually all the workers there. The plan to bring this industry back involves a new owner, cash from taxpayers and an uncertain new contract for cut-rate wholesale power.Read More
Political signs are everywhere during campaign season, but in some cases they stick around long past their advertised races. Read More
Idaho reached record levels of COVID-19 testing positivity at 38.8% last week, said Christine Hahn, state epidemiologist at a press briefing Tuesday. Read More
Gangs of wild elk are attacking farmers’ haystacks in Washington and Oregon. They’re hungry, after a long drought and record mountain snow this winter has driven animals down to the lowlands. Climate scientists say things may only get worse in the future.Read More
The January 15 volcanic eruption near Tonga was a stark reminder of the threats posed by tsunamis. That's long been a concern in the Pacific Northwest, where thousands of students go to school within reach of a large tsunami.Read More
Wildfires, invasive species and climate change are seriously threatening the Hanford Reach National Monument, and with it, a rare plant that grows only in one place in the world.Read More
Washington’s COVID-19 state of emergency is approaching its two-year anniversary. Under current law, the governor has broad emergency powers. But the Legislature is considering new restrictions on that authority.Read More
Kittitas Valley Healthcare-KVH will no longer offer free COVID testing to Kittitas County. According to the Public Hospital website, "sudden and extreme supply chain shortages" force the changes starting Jan. 28.Read More
New homes built in Central Washington could be constructed on top of old orchards, where soils might contain the remnants of pesticides from the early 1900s.Read More
The Washington State Patrol permanently stripped its staff psychologist of his power to approve or reject trooper candidates, a role that for nearly 30 years shaped the agency’s ranks.Read More
