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Washington State Labor Council wants better standards for child care industry, paid vacation leave for all
For workers in Washington state, there are a number of bills being brought forward this legislative session that labor leaders hope will make working life better in the state.
The Washington State Labor Council has introduced its legislative agenda for 2025, which focuses on improving child labor laws, bargaining over artificial intelligence in public sector jobs and improving wages and benefits.
Walla Walla’s chamber music festival features love, stars and living composers
A past Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival performance at Garrison Creek Cellars. (Credit: David Mumm) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read Chamber music is a relatively intimate form of classical music. Think:
3 things to watch as WA’s 2025 legislative session kicks off
A person walks near the Legislative Building, Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (Credit: Ted S. Warren / AP) Read By Jeanie Lindsay, Northwest News Network
In Clarkston, a home sharing company helps people find housing
Lane Phillips, left, and Dean Johnson, right, at their home in Clarkston, Wash. (Credit: Phineas Pope / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 3:33) Read Dean Johnson, 78, and Lane Phillips, 83, have
Amid ‘economic eviction,’ residents find hope for housing authority
Breanna Sipley sits on the porch of their tiny home in the Abiel Mobile Home Community of Moscow, Idaho, with their dog, Bandit. (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen (Runtime
Fish hatchery transferred to Yakama Nation, upgrades underway
Yakama Nation tribal members fish in the Klickitat River for fall chinook salmon. The Yakama Nation recently gained ownership of a fish hatchery on the river. (Credit: USFWS – Pacific
Hanford safety officer hired on by Yakama Nation
Rattlesnake Mountain on the Hanford site in 2022. The mountain is sacred to the Yakama Nation and other Northwest Indigenous tribes and bands near the Hanford site. (Credit: Anna King
Lawmakers aim to pass bill so striking workers can access unemployment benefits
When workers go on strike in Washington state, they don’t earn a dime. A new piece of legislation could change that.
This bill would allow workers to eventually access unemployment benefits, starting the second Sunday after they began withholding their labor. Workers could claim up to four weeks of benefits through the state’s unemployment insurance, according to co-sponsor of the bill, state Sen. Steve Conway.
Whale, ship collisions around the globe could be helped by slower speeds, study shows
A humpback whale breeches off Half Moon Bay, Calif., in 2017. (Credit: Eric Risberg / AP) Listen (Runtime 1:06) Read Giant ships that transport everything from coffee cups to clothes
Northwest sees a rise in flu-like illnesses
The Northwest is seeing a rise in influenza-like illnesses
Death Cafes offer a space to discuss the end of life
Death Cafes give people a place to talk openly about the end of life. (Credit: Phineas Pope / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 0:54) Read Around the world, people gather at places
‘It just tastes like time’: Salmon are a sacred relative to the Nisqually tribe and Native Americans across the Northwest
Freshly caught chum salmon display their greens and pink colors like the aurora, in December on the Nisqually River. (Courtesy: Willie Frank III) Listen (Runtime 3:54) Read On a tall
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