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Shades Of Red: Benton County Races For General Election

By Dori Luzzo Gilmour September 22, 2022
Flikr Creative Commons GOP Elephant Listen (Runtime 3:01) Read In Benton County, as with the rest of Eastern Washington, most elected officials are Republicans, and it seems that it is […]Read More

Longest Serving County Prosecutor in WA retiring

By Dori Luzzo Gilmour March 1, 2022
More than 100 people showed up to hear Benton County Prosecutor Andy Miller announce his planned retirement
Benton County Prosecutor Andy Miller announces he will not run for re-election. Listen Read Benton County Prosecutor Andy Miller announced his retirement today in a press conference at the Justice […]Read More

The Fight Is On To Save Columbia River Salmon From A Toothy Invader

By Courtney Flatt May 29, 2019
Travis Rehm holds up the largest northern pike biologists caught on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. The female fish was about 34 inches long. CREDIT: Courtney Flatt/NWPB
The fight to save Columbia River salmon could hinge on a major battle taking place in the basin’s biggest reservoir. It pits biologists against a fish: The invasive northern pike.Read More

‘Fish War’ documentary highlights tribal leaders’ fight

By Reneé Diaz July 15, 2024
Four people, two men and two women, stand in front of a large screen on a stage. The screen has the words "Fish War" projected on it.
From left to right, Charles Atkinson, Jeff Ostenson, Mary Big Bull-Lewis and Twa-le Abrahamson answer questions from the crowd after the film “Fish War.” (Credit: Reneé Dìaz / NWPB) Listen […]Read More

For tribes, welcoming salmon to the Upper Columbia is a reminder of ‘lifelong work’

By Courtney Flatt June 5, 2023
A man in a blue plaid shirt, black apron and white fedora holds a green bottle of olive oil above six pink filets of salmon. The filets are sitting on a white plastic table. A crowd of people stands behind him looking at a blue river.
Ira Stevenson preps salmon filets for the salmon bake after a First Salmon ceremony at Chief Joseph dam in north central Washington. (Credit: Courtney Flatt.) Listen (Runtime 4:04) Read The […]Read More

World’s Largest Firefighting Plane May Be Sold For COVID-19 Response, As Wildfire Season Heats Up

By NWPB News April 27, 2021
In this May 5, 2016, a Boeing 747-400 Global SuperTanker drops half a load of its 19,400-gallon capacity during a ceremony at Colorado Springs, Colo. The world’s largest firefighting plane has been shut down just as Western states prepare for a wildfire season that fire officials fear could be worse than the average year. CREDIT: Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP
As the company weighs its options, two Washington state legislators sent a letter Tuesday to U.S. Congress members in Western states, urging them to find a solution to continue the SuperTanker’s operations, which they described as the “biggest and one of the best weapons in battling the catastrophic fires.”Read More

Scientists Pinpoint Chemical That’s Been Killing Northwest Coho Salmon. It Comes From Tires

By John Ryan December 7, 2020
A coho salmon gapes for air, one of the symptoms of "urban runoff mortality syndrome," in Miller Creek in Normandy Park, Washington. Screenshot from University of Washington video
Coho salmon returning to freshwater each fall often die, gasping for breath and swimming aimlessly, before they are able to spawn. Scientists now know why. After years of chemical sleuthing, scientists have pinpointed the toxic substance that’s been killing large numbers of coho salmon in Northwest creeks.Read More

Navy Hovercrafts Could Be Hulking Lifesavers After ‘The Big One’ Hits Northwest

By Tom Banse June 4, 2019
The Navy hovercraft involved in Monday's demonstration are known as LCACs in military lingo. CREDIT: TOM BANSE / NORTHWEST NEWS NETWORK
People visiting or living along the Pacific Northwest coast may be completely cut off after "The Big One" —the feared magnitude 9.0 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. For that reason, the U.S. Navy has been scouting landing sites along the coast for disaster relief delivery by sea. The quake preparations ticked up a notch on Monday, with a practice delivery of supplies using Read More

When It Comes To Wildfire, Politics Lag Behind Science

By Cassandra Profita August 6, 2018
In this May 23, 2017 photo provided by Chelan County Fire District 3, logs burn near Leavenworth, Wash. The wildfire prompted evacuation orders for homes and cabins at a popular Washington state hiking and skiing destination. CREDIT: BEN TORKELSON
A variety of forest experts say that one of the best ways to reduce the threat of these mega-blazes is to use fire itself. They say we need to increase the pace of prescribed fire and let some wildfires continue to burn when it’s safe to do so. Of course, there’s not nearly as much political support for letting fires burn as there is for putting fires out.Read More

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