An old aluminum smelter has sat abandoned on the Columbia River’s banks for two decades. Now, energy developers could help fast-track part of the cleanup.

A minor has been charged with four counts of assault in the first degree with a deadly weapon enhancement following a stabbing at Foss High School in Tacoma on Thursday afternoon.

Native American people face a higher rate of type 2 diabetes than the general population. Several regional tribes are offering diabetes management programs to help patients fight those odds.

 How are the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes working to take care of their unused food? Morning Edition host Connor Henricksen joined NWPB’s Anna King to discuss how the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation are finding success diverting that waste.

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.

Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air. Those and other reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in documents released Friday.

Some schools are warning users not to log back into Canvas yet, after a ransomware group claimed credit for a data breach. Half of North America's higher education institutions use the platform.

In Colombia, a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is challenged by an Indian billionaire's offer to relocate dozens of the animals to India's wildlife reserve instead.

There are now two books at the Richland Public Library that definitely don’t have that new book smell. They were last checked out in the 1960s.

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.

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

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.

Bobbing their heads in the blustery spring breeze, balsamroot looks a bit like a posy of shrunken sunflowers. Wildflowers across the Northwest are blooming right now, and the display won’t last long.

It’s been a couple of months since construction crews in the Tri-Cities removed an earthen land bridge. It blocked water at the mouth of the Yakima River. Now, people are celebrating the free flow of the river through its delta.

A new project is trying to tag Northwest butterflies with high-tech electronic tags to learn more about their migration.

“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?

Doctors are needed everywhere — but especially in rural and historically underserved populations. Washington State University hosted an event to show students how they can get into medicine.

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.

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

An early fundraising leader has emerged from the crowd of candidates battling to succeed retiring Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse in central Washington.

Tacoma is seeking to improve connections across the city with repairs to sidewalks, pedestrian crossings and other improvements to arterials.

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