Habitat for Humanity Spokane secures $6.5 million in state funds to expand affordable housing.

Four months after a program for severely mentally ill people was defunded in Idaho, the state’s Legislature moved to temporarily bring back funding for assertive community treatment, or ACT.

Some Northwest sweet cherries and early asparagus fields got whacked by unseasonably warm temperatures, followed by recent freezing temps.

The Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes view their traditional foods as something that deserves the utmost respect. So, they’re striving to repurpose their food waste.

Refugees and immigrants in the U-S can have a hard time adjusting to a new place. But there's a nonprofit in the Tri-Cities that’s aiming to help.

B5, a nonprofit in the Tri-Cities, provides free English classes and citizenship classes for refugees and immigrants.

President Trump said a U.S. delegation will head to Pakistan to resume talks to end the war with Iran, but Tehran expressed reluctance after the U.S. seized one of its cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

"We women are the land guardians and keepers," says Theonila Roka Matbob of Papua New Guinea, recognized for her efforts to repair the environmental and social harms caused by a copper and gold mine.

A new art exhibit in Phoenix features some of the world's prickliest plants. It could also help save them.

NWPB's classical service host Jedd Greenhalgh interviews the creator, composer and pianist behind The Hip Hop Orchestra Experience.

Quinceañeras are a traditional Latin American celebration of a girl's 15th birthday that marks her coming of age into becoming a young woman. In March the Wenatchee Convention Center filled with colorful ball gowns, families dancing and dozens of businesses ready to showcase services for this milestone celebration.

Every winter, Tacomans embark on a treasure hunt. The seekers are looking for Monkeyshines.

The federal agency that maintains the Columbia River’s shipping channel is proposing to build seven giant in-water pens as part of a $377 million project to manage dredge spoils.

For the first time in the event’s history, an Indigenous sovereign nation will formally be a part of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.

Farmworkers who believe they were discriminated against by their former employer, Cornerstone Ranches, can now seek compensation through a $1 million settlement secured by the Washington state Office of the Attorney General.

At Hanford, several 7-foot tall containers of radioactive tank waste that have been bound up into glass by a new factory were disposed of in an engineered landfill this week.

On Wednesday morning, Washington state declared a statewide drought.

Business leaders in the Tri-Cities said it’s getting harder to bring new, large developments to town because there isn’t enough power to go around.

“We’re losing firefighters. The numbers are going down,” said Riston Bullock, a 13-year veteran with the Nez Perce crew. “We need people at the shop ready to go when those fires start.”

A medida que comienza la temporada de incendios forestales en el estado de Washington, activistas están trabajando para asegurarse de que las personas que solo hablan español reciban información importante durante las emergencias.

It's hotter and drier across much of the Western United States. How is that impacting fire season?

When he was diagnosed with cancer, Sean Cassidy thought his life was over. He says he couldn’t have been more wrong.

Among leading cancer-related deaths for young people, mortality has decreased. But there’s one outlier.

Almost three months after cuts to acute behavioral health services in Idaho, three former patients who used the service have died.

Just a quarter of those arrested between October and early March had criminal records, according to new data.

A new Washington state law will help immigrant workers know when the records proving they can legally work in the U.S. are about to come under federal review.

While Portland and Seattle drew the largest crowds, the region's smaller cities and towns also turned out by the thousands.