FBI, county and police officials wait for the all-clear to collect evidence at the home of Elias Huizar, 39, where his 17-year-old girlfriend, Angelica Santos, was found dead. (Credit: Anna… Continue Reading West Richland Read More
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Barley, a Jersey cow, and some of her herdmates on pasture last spring at Steensma Dairy & Creamery. (Credit: Steensma Family Dairy & Creamery) Listen (Runtime 1:06) Read Some Northwest… Continue Reading Bird flu in cattle stressing Read More
Northwest dairy cattle eat rations out of a feed bunk. (Credit: Washington State Department of Agriculture) Listen (Runtime :58) Read Experts say they are not sure how the highly-pathogenic avian… Continue Reading Migratory birds Read More
A snapshot of the Hanford cleanup site showing the various groundwater plumes across the site. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy / Office of Environmental Management) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read A… Continue Reading New tool tracks Read More
At the top of a hill, a tractor with a 17-foot wide planter plugs seed potatoes into the sandy ground at the Ice Harbor Hilltop Farm east of Burbank. (Credit:… Continue Reading Frank Tiegs: A Read More
This image provided by Boise Police Department shows Nicholas Umphenour (left), who has been identified by police as the man suspected of shooting corrections officers at a Boise hospital in… Continue Reading Homicides in Read More
A group of elk runs from Yakama Nation hunters on the Hanford Reach National Monument in December 2023. (Credit: Star Diavolikis / Yakama Nation) Listen (Runtime 3:50) Read A video… Continue Reading A return after Read More
Erin Whorton, a hydrologist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, measures snow on South Cascade Glacier in Washington. (Credit: Erin Whorton / NRCS) Listen (Runtime :58) Read The snowpack in… Continue Reading Spring snowpack levels in Read More
Workers clear canals of debris in preparation for spring irrigation season in the Roza Irrigation District. (Courtesy: Dave Rollinger) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read A story in plot points: a federal… Read More
The Northport Bridge over the Columbia River in Washington state near the border with Canada. Portions of the upper Columbia River and its upland areas may be designated a Superfund… Continue Reading EPA Read More
Pinot noir grapes at Oregon State University’s Woodhall Vineyard undergoing smoke experiments. (Credit: Sean Nealon / OSU) Listen (Runtime :54) Read Researchers are developing special coatings to protect Northwest wines… Read More
Contractor crews working to remove more of the eastbound lane concrete panels. (Credit: WSDOT) Listen Read (Runtime 1:02) The major failing irrigation culverts that run under Interstate-82 between Yakima and… Continue Reading I-82 Read More
Stevie Haberman plays piano with singer Mary Lou Gnoza and Gary Danielson. (Credit: Annie Warren / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 4:33) Read The Emerald of Siam is the night spot for… Continue Reading Funny Read More
Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is escorted to an extradition hearing at the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.… Continue Reading Judge denies Read More
Listen (Runtime :59) Read When you think your weather’s been bad in the Northwest, think of the residents of Corbett, Oregon. John Jordan lives there, on the blustery cusp of… Continue Reading Read More
A washing machine was abandoned on the side of the road outside Kennewick. The Washington State Department of Transportation has noticed an uptick in appliances and other junk that’s illegally… Continue Reading Washington bill Read More
An icy parking lot near Brighton, Oregon. Many people have fallen, or had pipes burst in the cold and icy weather. (Credit: Tracci Dial / NWPB) Listen (Runtime :57) Read… Continue Reading Bones and pipes are breaking Read More
Watch Listen (Runtime 4:05) Read In the quiet intention of morning, Mike Easton runs his floured hands over sheets of wide pasta. It makes a rhythmic shhhhhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhhhhhh shushing sound,… Read More
Demolition of the King Road House in Moscow, Idaho began shortly after 6 a.m. local time on December 28, 2023. (Credit: Julie Scott) Listen (Runtime 1:03) Read The house where… Continue Reading King Road Read More
Sergio Madrigal and his wife, Rosa, stand outside the farm they owned, until recently, near Sunnyside, Washington. (Courtesy: Anna King / Northwest News Network) Listen (Runtime 2:56) Read It has… Read More
Cloe McMichael, 22, sets the table in the longhouse in Mission, Ore. ahead of the annual Indian New Year ceremony, which is celebrated on the Winter Solstice. The feast is… Continue Reading Winter solstice is also ‘Indian New Year’ in the Read More
Rattlesnake Mountain, known as Laliik by Tribes of the Columbia Basin, is incredibly important to Tribal nations. Now, the Biden Administration has announced its intention to work closely with Tribes… Continue Reading Rattlesnake Read More
The poured glass appears emerald green, just before it’s lidded and transported to an export bay at Hanford in southeast Washington. Hanford officials are celebrating this first container of glass… Continue Reading Hanford’s Read More
Shana McConville Radford is taking on the newly-formed position of tribal affairs director with the state of Oregon. (Courtesy of Shana McConville Radford) Listen (Runtime :57) Read Oregon Gov. Tina… Continue Read More
The last in-person public meeting about Hanford cleanup was in Richland in 2019. (Courtesy of Washington State Department of Ecology) Listen (Runtime :56) Read The public can ask questions and… Continue Read More
Freshly picked red delicious apples gather in a bin. Northwest red delicious and galas are again shipping to India after tariffs were lifted. (Courtesy: Washington Apple Commission) Read Many Northwest… Continue Reading ‘Vintage year’ Read More
Energy Northwest is expected to get a second “white finding” from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission over worker exposures two years ago at the Columbia Generating Station near Richland. (Photo… Continue Reading Energy Read More
“Radio Free Olympia” is a book about a handful of characters, one of whom, Petr, is raised on the Olympic Peninsula. Without traditional parents, he’s also raised by the landscape. Petr guides readers through folklore of the peninsula by broadcasting spirits on a homemade radio. Reporter Lauren Gallup sat down with Jeffrey Dunn to discuss what inspired this surreal story Read More
Employees at Cornerstone Cottage alerted state officials to the dangers, only to be fired themselves Cornerstone Cottage opened in 2016 in Post Falls, Idaho, a booming bedroom community 25 miles… Continue Read More
There was a breeze, clouds and humidity in the air in West Seattle that hadn’t been there for days on the morning of July 30, as visitors to Alki Beach found seats or meandered down to the shore, waiting.
A little after 11 a.m., as the sun began to break through the gray, the tip of a canoe and its passengers’ paddles could just be seen cutting across the water, the Read More
This historical photo, provided to Oregon Public Broadcasting by Pacific University archivist Eva Guggemos, shows seven boys who came to the Forest Grove Indian Training School from the Spokane Tribe… Continue Read More
David Turk, federal Deputy Secretary of Energy, speaks to about 100 people during an informational meeting about potential clean energy development at Hanford. (Credit: Anna King / Northwest News Network)… Continue Reading U.S. Read More
Ethan Chapin (left) Maizie Chapin (middle) and Hunter Chapin (right) in a family photo. Hunter and Maizie are still attending University of Idaho and are part of Greek life. (Courtesy:… Continue Reading New scholarships will Read More
The historic Marcus Whitman Hotel in Walla Walla is taped off and shut down until officials can learn more about the plume of gasoline underneath some of downtown Listen (Runtime… Continue Read More
Children play recently at Howard Amon park in Richland, near a sign warning of toxic algae. (Credit: Anna King / Northwest News Network.) Read The Environmental Protection Agency will begin… Read More
Large fires surrounding Spokane level homes and send people and livestock fleeing Continue Reading Rain, soft and wonderful, comes too late for many near SpokaneRead More
Maple, the 7-year-old yellow lab, takes a swift lick on a couple of milkers near Sunnyside, Washington. (Photo: Anna King) Listen (Runtime 3:54) Read It’s hot! It hit about 110… Continue Reading Dairy Steamer: Read More
Fire crews tend the Trinity Fire just outside the Tri-Cities on August 14. (Photo: Anna King) There is a new several hundred acre fire burning part of Rattlesnake Mountain near… Continue Reading Planes and Read More
Northwest wine industry leader, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, dumps about 40 percent of its contracts with Washington growers. (Photo courtesy of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates.) Read The massive Northwest wine… Continue Reading Northwest wine Read More
Holstein dairy cattle loaf in their pens at Threemile Canyon Farms. New regulations adopted by Oregon seek to tighten cattle watering regulations. (Photo: Courtesy of Friends of Family Farmers.) Read… Continue Reading Read More
Cody Easterday walks with family members from the Federal Courthouse on South Third Street after being sentenced to 11 years, on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, in Yakima. KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer… Continue Reading Ranchers Cody Read More
Director Dan Merchant signals to actors on set during a “Going Home” scene filmed in Rosalia, Washington. (Credit: D.S. Schaefer / Outlier Imaging) Listen (Runtime 1:02) Read While the writer’s… Continue Reading As the Read More
With a stack of fresh newspapers in hand, Ken Stern is making one of his first stops of the day at La Conner's local office supply and business center. Continue Reading ‘It’s really a crisis’: Why small towns Read More
North Idaho College sits on the shores of Lake Coeur d’Alene. (Credit: NIC Flickr) Listen (Runtime 00:57) Read North Idaho College has been given another year to resolve issues outlined… Continue Reading Only community college Read More
Doctors say end of federal protections affect more than just abortion care Continue Reading Idaho abortion patients traveling to WA increased more than 50 percent after DobbsRead More
A number of Washington state public schools are partnering with tribes to bring Indigenous languages into classrooms in an effort to rectify the marred history of Native American boarding schools.
Rachael Barger is a teacher on special assignment with Bethel School District, one of the districts partnering with the Nisqually Tribe to bring its Southern Lushootseed Read More
John Reilly, 29, Post Falls, Idaho and Shannon Rydeen, 26 of Spokane at the Gorge in June. Rydeen said it was terrifying recently to be stuck inside the concert venue… Continue Reading Is the Gorge safe? Trouble and Read More
Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for a hearing Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow. (August Frank/The Lewiston Tribune via AP) Listen (Runtime :55) Read At… Continue Reading Lawyer for Read More
As the days get hotter and warmer, many Washingtonians are gearing up for the wildfires that will ignite across the region this year, causing smoky skies, evacuations and potentially devastating loss. Continue Reading Fighting fire Read More
Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for a motion hearing regarding a gag order, Friday, June 9, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students… Continue Reading State of Idaho to pursue death penalty Read More
