Lauren Gallup
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NWPB
Tacoma is seeking to improve connections across the city with repairs to sidewalks, pedestrian crossings and other improvements to arterials.
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Saskia HatvanyWhile Portland and Seattle drew the largest crowds, the region's smaller cities and towns also turned out by the thousands. -
Lauren Gallup/NWPBParks Tacoma is asking voters to support Proposition 1, a $155 million package to fund over 100 projects in 40 different locations over six years. -
Melinda Kupers has worked for the state agency for 35 years — in prisons, community corrections, reentry centers and graduated reentry. On a daily basis, she said working for the Washington state Department of Corrections is brutal.“ Our community corrections staff are out in the community with guns on their hips, arresting people, going into homes,” Kupers said.
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Former Sunnyside City Manager Mike Gonzalez announced Monday on LinkedIn that he was offered back his job at the city. -
About 8% of the student population walked out on Monday morning -
A bill that would have made it easier for Washington’s farmworkers to form a union will not become law this year. -
Farmworkers in Washington state don’t have a formal legal pathway to collective bargaining, but that could soon change under recently introduced bills. -
Washington state's 2026 legislative session began this week. -
Washington and Idaho legislators open their respective off-year sessions Monday in Olympia and Boise. -
Public records uncovered by Cascade PBS and KNKX show a city employee asking ChatGPT for help tipping the scales to ensure a preferred vendor would be awarded a contract. -
U.S. Senate and House Democrats from Oregon and Washington moved swiftly to condemn President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States carried out a military strike in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. -
A seat in Congress will be open in the 2026 election in Washington’s 4th Congressional District, which covers most of Central Washington. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse announced Wednesday morning that he will not seek reelection. -
NWPB reporter Lauren Gallup joined host Phineas Pope to discuss Tacoma's 2023 Landlord Fairness Code and its impacts on affordable housing providers today.
