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Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival
Opening Thursday and closing on June 27, the festival’s 19th season features about 30 musicians from across the country. In vineyards, wineries and the Gesa Power House Theatre, audiences will hear works ranging from classical to contemporary.
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Courtesy: Eric PatrickNorthwest cherries are about to ship, a tiny bit early. About 19 million boxes are expected this season – each box is 20 pounds. -
Lauren Gallup/NWPBDriving the streets of South Tacoma, there’s a sleek, black electric Ford Lightning F-150 truck pulling a trailer. The trailer is carrying a 500-gallon water tank on a mission to water some of Tacoma’s newest trees. -
Jessie Wardarski/AP PhotoDevelopers are thinking about building a new transmission line to help meet the Northwest’s energy needs. But this one would be different from what you’re imagining. This high-voltage transmission line would run under the Columbia River.
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August Frank/The Lewiston TribuneA tribal health clinic in Lapwai, Idaho, has helped patients find success managing diabetes and prediabetes. NWPB’s Rachel Sun joined host Connor Henricksen to discuss. -
Lauren Gallup/NWPBCommunities across the U.S. are turning small plots of land into highly dense forests that grow quickly. Turns out these forests have roots to a decades-old planting method that originated in Japan. -
Courtesy: McCoy OatmanNative 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.
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Mariam Zuhaib/APThe vote marked a rare bipartisan rebuke of the war, but is mostly symbolic. Democrats have been unable to pass a war powers resolution in the Senate, and even if they could it would likely be vetoed. -
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Getty Images North AmericaThe Senate voted along party lines to start debate on a Republican bill to fund immigration enforcement through the end of President Trump's term. -
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North AmericaPresident Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason.
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Rachel Sun/NWPBA one-night-only art exhibit in Spokane on June 5th blends queerness, spirituality and folk art. -
Lauren Gallup/NWPBWhen six World Cup games come to Seattle this summer, there’s another game fans can join in on in Pierce County. Around the county, 1,000 glass medallions are being hidden in a scavenger hunt meant to celebrate the World Cup. -
Courtney Flatt/NWPBThere 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.
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Courtesy photoHabitat for Humanity Spokane secures $6.5 million in state funds to expand affordable housing. -
Amanda Cowan/The Columbian filesThe 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. -
Puyallup Tribe of IndiansFor 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.
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Courtney Flatt/NWPBFor around 15 years, people have slowly dug up mammoth bones near the Tri-Cities. Along the way, people have made a lot of other discoveries. -
David Baron/Flickr Creative CommonsFor decades, Yakama Nation gatherers say it’s been really hard to find huckleberries in a southwest Washington national forest. But tribal gatherers say things are changing. -
Rachel Sun/NWPBWhen beavers build dams, they help create habitat for other species. But when they build near humans, those dams aren’t always appreciated. Some humans are trying to strike a balance between their needs and the beavers’.
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August Frank / Lewiston TribuneFire season could begin earlier this season in some parts of the Northwest. -
“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.
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Rachel Sun/NWPBDoctors 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. -
Olivia Anderson/The Lewiston TribuneFour 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. -
Olivia Anderson/The Lewiston TribuneWhen he was diagnosed with cancer, Sean Cassidy thought his life was over. He says he couldn’t have been more wrong.
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Bill Lucia/Washington State StandardOpponents say the boundaries don’t mesh with a recent Supreme Court decision in a Louisiana case. Secretary of State Hobbs warns changes could delay the August primary. -
Anna King/NWPBU.S. Senator Patty Murray toured Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant on Wednesday before talking to worker union leaders about the importance of funding Hanford cleanup. -
Elise Amendola/AP PhotoAn early fundraising leader has emerged from the crowd of candidates battling to succeed retiring Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse in central Washington.
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The president also acknowledged that he cursed at the Israeli leader in a heated phone call in which he told Benjamin Netanyahu not to bomb the Lebanese capital Beirut. -
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules. -
A sanded-down biopic about the King of pop and propaganda has resurfaced his music on the charts — along with questions about how his enduring magic became make-believe -
The show's new leader says he fired star Scott Pelley for insubordination. Pelley says he was defending the integrity of the show's journalism after three top executives and two reporters were fired. -
Actor Robert De Niro and producing partner Jane Rosenthal created the festival in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
