Northwest News

The president just unraveled years of work on tribal rights, salmon and clean energy. So what happens next?

By Tony Schick
FILE - The salmon viewing area at the Bonneville Lock and Dam, August 2021. Kristyna Wentz-Graff, Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB
Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had Read More

Washington State Library laying off some staff, changing services due to budget cuts

By Lauren Gallup
Crystal Hicks, head of collections at the Washington State Library, stands in the library's reading room in Tumwater. The public can come here to look at historic materials in the library's collection. That access could be limited as the library is having to lay off staff. (Credit: Lauren Gallup // NWPB)
The doors to the Washington State Library in Tumwater could close to the public later this year. That’s because the Washington Secretary of State’s Office will likely be reducing staff; 47 employees have received notices that they could be laid off due to reductions in state and federal funding. If that happens, the public won’t be able to access rare items stored in Read More
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