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It’s Round-Up rodeo and Happy Canyon Night Show week in Pendleton, Oregon. At Happy Canyon, an Indigenous dress that’s over a century old will make an appearance. It’s been worn and passed down through five generations.
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An antique iron school bell that once rang at Walla Walla County’s long-gone Blue Creek School has been restored and brought to Walla Walla High School for sports events.
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President Trump nominates Pete Serrano to be the next U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington
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A story of a baseball fanatic and his family legacy beyond his work and the game of baseball.
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A conversation about the Blue Mountain Action Council's efforts to use gleaning to address a food shipment shortage.
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When the Blue Mountain Action Council lost more than half its food shipments, they decided to focus on gleaning — gathering fruits and vegetables from personal gardens and commercial farms — and distribute the produce to regional food panties.
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How are goats being used as a fire mitigation tool in the Northwest?
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The president chalked the ban up to what he called unfavorable coverage, and he threatened that bans on other media companies could be coming.
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An informal network of dialogues at think tanks and universities is bringing together experts from the U.S. and China to talk about the shared perils of AI — and possible paths forward.
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New reporting finds the abduction of journalist Austin Tice was planned by the Syrian government for weeks.
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For the director of such classics as Alien, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down and Gladiator, this picture amounts to a kind of idyll, but with an ominous edge and occasional bursts of violence.
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The philosophy of French cuisine leans heavily into the art of reduction. In Canadian director Matt Johnson’s new film, Tony, he applies that approach with considerable success to his subject, the late Anthony Bourdain.
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Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen was first performed in its entirety at Bayreuth in 1876. It remains a powerful and influential work 150 years later, with Wagner’s vision continuing to inspire artists, audiences, and opera companies—including Seattle Opera and Tacoma Opera in the Pacific Northwest.
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A total of seven journalists were laid off from McClatchy-owned papers in Washington state, along with ten journalists in Idaho.
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On Saturday, underneath a painted banner strung across the porch of Hillcrest Apartments in Tacoma, tenants announced the formation of the Wright Park Tenant Union.
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Kroger, the grocery giant that owns QFC, Fred Meyer and other grocery stores around the country, is planning to close another Fred Meyer in Tacoma. The store sits in the James Center shopping area right across from Tacoma Community College off a busy thoroughfare with a well-used bus line.
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For years, the Yakama Nation has fought to restrict access to one of its most sacred sites outside the Tri-Cities. Rattlesnake Mountain, or Laliik, is one of the highest points in the region. And some hikers want access.
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Labs in Seattle and Wenatchee that were previously identified for closure were spared in the latest plan. The regional headquarters in Portland will be closed.
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Down at the Point Defiance Marina in Tacoma, large swallows are diving from up high in the sky to down under the boardwalk and into nesting boxes, where they’re feeding their newly fledged chicks.“ It's one of the exciting parts of my morning, is seeing the reports come in and see which boxes have had babies and all the notes from our volunteers,” said Sam Hain, a conservation specialist for the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, is making people aware of the dangers of hunting, hiking, fishing and recreating in wildfire burn scars, which can have unstable soil, dead trees ready to topple and other hazards.
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There’s a few places where the Spokane fires didn’t burn quite so hot or quite so fast. Officials with the Washington state Department of Natural Resources say that’s because trees in these areas had been thinned. That helps make a forest ecosystem healthier.
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After devastating fires earlier this month in Spokane, several churches and religious organizations are stepping in to help people recover.
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TriState Health’s newest OB-GYN provider, Dr. Caroline Rolofson, says she’s excited to help build up healthcare access in the Lewis-Clark Valley.
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Two nurse-midwives have returned to obstetrics care at a hospital in Lewiston, Idaho. They had temporarily lost their hospital privileges due to a lack of supporting physicians.
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For the first time, the United States Forest Service authorized the use of N95 respirators for federal wildland firefighters.
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Washington sues the Trump administration for its efforts to restrict mail-in voting.
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Preliminary results from the first ballots counted in the primary race for Washington's 4th Congressional District are in.
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Live election results: Get the latest on Washington's U.S. House primary races.
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The 17 goals agreed upon by world leaders are incredibly ambitious. Are we even close to achieving any of them? If we don't, is the project a failure?
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Shape-shifting aliens attack a South Korean border town in Hope, a big-budget thriller that blends third-rate CGI with exhilarating action scenes.
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Ms. Rachel has conquered YouTube, Netflix and the toy aisle. Now she's making an album, with real instruments, big feelings and her littlest listeners in mind.
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Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after serving in the role for more than 50 years. His son, Howard, will become Berkshire Hathaway's new chairman
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South Africa has some of the highest rates of violence against women in the world, and a spate of killings of nine women in the same area in recent weeks has led to renewed outrage.