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Hundreds rally in support of immigrants at Washington state Capitol
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 /
Inspectors find 21 gallons of invasive mussels on tugboat outside of Spokane
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
Decades-long Highway 12 expansion sees ‘light at the end of the tunnel’
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
Yakama Power looks to alternative energy storage projects
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
Autoridades locales de Sunnyside confirman operaciones del ICE en la ciudad
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.
Tacoma City Council lowers enforcement priority for psilocybin, similar substances
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. Entheogen has become the preferred term for chemicals that are psychoactive drugs. These have impacts on people’s consciousness, according to Science Direct.
Local authorities in Sunnyside confirm ICE operations in city
City officials in Sunnyside, Washington, confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are conducting operations in the city.
Mid-Columbia farmers cautiously optimistic about second Trump administration, farmworkers feel differently
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
Walla Walla’s first community land trust gets big boost
Kathryn Witherington is the executive director of Common Roots Housing Trust, Walla Walla’s first community land trust. (Credit: Susan Shain / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read Last week, Common Roots
Throughout the school year, one group learns about the basics of quilting
A finished quilt by instructor Iris Murray titled “Whirling and Circling Energy.” (Credit: Phineas Pope / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read On a Saturday morning at the 1912 Center in
Starbucks and its workers’ union still haven’t reached a collective bargaining agreement
Starbucks workers picket outside of a closed Starbucks on Dec. 20, 2024, in Burbank, Calif. Workers have yet to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the company. (Credit: Damian Dovarganes
Final cohort of Idaho firefighters homebound after two weeks in California
Idaho Task Force Four poses for a photo near the ocean at the end of their two-week service in Los Angeles, California. (Courtesy: Billy Monahan) Listen (Runtime 1:03) Read The
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