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Walla Walla’s farmers market has its best day ever
The Walla Walla Downtown Farmers Market is held on Saturdays. (Credit: Downtown Walla Walla Foundation) Read By Susan Shain | NWPB Walla Walla’s Downtown Farmers Market has been running for
Protecting farmworkers: Wenatchee nonprofit provides resources amid heat waves, wildfire season
CAFÉ volunteers prepare boxes of supplies for agricultural workers, ensuring community support during extreme weather conditions. Pictured left to right, Yesenia Perez Ana Sanchez, Angelica Garcia-Macias, Joanna Sanchez, and Stephanie
Burnt over cattle and lands: In southeast Oregon, grief-stricken ranchers are exhausted and frustrated by wildfires
Moving cattle out of a forest recently outside of Burns, Oregon. (Credit: Sabrina Maki) Listen (Runtime 4:33) Read Exhaustion and frustration: Ranchers in southeast Oregon are battling wildfire. Like many
Health care professionals say Idaho law leaves gaps in care for minors
If you’re under 18 in Idaho, a new state law says you can no longer get any kind of health care outside of emergency treatment without consent from a parent. NWPB’s Rachel Sun reports.
Análisis de datos ayuda a combatir incendios forestales
Investigadores de Idaho y Oregón participaron en una investigación para mejorar la base de datos sobre la ocurrencia de incendios, conocida en inglés como Fire Ocurrance Database o FPA-FOD. Esa herramienta contiene datos históricos de más de dos millones de incendios forestales ocurridos en Estados Unidos.
Community organizers and labor leaders announce plans for workers’ rights initiative
Tacoma For All and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 367 announced plans to bring an initiative to Pierce and Thurston county voters next year. The groups are calling the initiative a workers’ bill of rights.
Complaint to federal agency over Washington animal organization
In Skagit County, a nonprofit that houses a number of animals, including exotic ones, is in continued legal battles. A law firm that advocates for animal rights is claiming the organization may have violated the Endangered Species Act, by, as the law firm claims in its complaint, the illegal euthanization of wolves.
An enhanced database helps predict wildfires
Researchers from Idaho and Oregon participated in research to improve the Fire Program Analysis Fire Occurrence Database, or FPA-FOD, which contains historical data on more than two million wildfires in the United States. These improvements might be the key to better predicting wildfires in the Northwest.
Remembering a South Sound radio icon
John Mangan ran I-91, KVTI for nearly 30 years. (Credit: Kevin Mangan) Listen (Runtime 4:01) Read In the spring, the South Sound lost an airwaves icon. John Mangan ran the
Habitat for Humanity volunteers are making the Palouse more accessible
Palouse Habitat for Humanity volunteers attach a wooden ramp to the back door of a house. (Credit: Jennifer Wallace) Listen (Runtime 3:49) Read About 6 miles west of Pullman, Washington,
Biologists truck Snake River sockeye to cooler Idaho waters
Darren Ogden, a biologist with NOAA, watches as technician Riley Krieg nets sockeye salmon to put them into a tank on a truck. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / NWPB) Watch Listen
Murder trial date set for Bryan Kohberger, man accused of killing University of Idaho students
Bryan Kohberger, right, is escorted into a courtroom for a hearing in Latah County District Court on Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (Credit: Ted S. Warren / AP Photo)
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