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![The 222-S Laboratory mainly studies the physical and chemical characteristics of radioactive waste to support retrieving waste from Hanford’s large underground tanks. Tuesday a vial of chemicals was found there that could be very explosive.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/222-S-Complex_DOE-500x500.jpg)
About 60 people evacuated when potentially explosive chemical found at Hanford site laboratory
The 222-S Laboratory mainly studies the physical and chemical characteristics of radioactive waste to support retrieving waste from Hanford’s large underground tanks. Tuesday a vial of chemicals was found there
![Mr. WSDOT's goodbye cartoon. (Credit: WSDOT on Facebook)](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/427801150_801168235388213_928506899393543228_n-500x500.jpg)
Mr. WSDOT — the man who’s helped make road alerts interesting and ‘artistic’ — is heading to a new job
When Mike Allende started managing social media for the Washington State Department of Transportation, he was told “don’t be boring.”
“Boring” is probably the last word any one would use to describe Allende’s approach to the job, which massively grew engagement while he worked there. Known by some fans as Mr. WSDOT, he’s the man behind the most followed state department of transportation Twitter, or X, account nationwide, with some 543,000 followers on the department’s traffic page.
![A photo illustration of a tobacco hawkmoth navigating to a flower amid air fouled by vehicle exhaust emissions. (Credit: Floris Van Breugel / Courtesy Of The University Of Washington)](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/9_moth_exhaust-500x500.jpg)
Pollution causing problems for nighttime pollinators
A photo illustration of a tobacco hawkmoth navigating to a flower amid air fouled by vehicle exhaust emissions. (Credit: Floris Van Breugel / Courtesy Of The University Of Washington) Listen
![Parque eólico](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Turbinas-eolicas-a-lo-largo-de-la-garganta-del-Columbia-cerca-de-Goldendale-Wash.-AP-Foto-de-archivo-Rick-Bowmer-500x500.jpg)
Mayor parque eólico del noroeste se reduce a la mitad
Un controvertido parque eólico que iba a ser el mayor de Washington ha sido reducido a la mitad. El proyecto propuesto en las afueras de Tri-Cities ha suscitado preocupación por su impacto sobre los halcones en peligro de extinción y los miradores. Sin embargo, su promotor dijo que estas nuevas restricciones podrían ser perjudiciales para el desarrollo de las energías renovables en el estado.
![Senator Maria Cantwell stands at a brown podium alongside Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown, while two other affordable housing advocates in winter jackets stand behind them.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DSC_0028-500x500.jpg)
Washington politicians push for federal affordable housing legislation
Washington Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell held a press conference at the Mother Theresa Haven in Spokane, Washington – a 48-unit complex built a few years ago with funding from the
![A close up photo of the embankment failure under the eastbound lanes of I-82 near Wapato.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/I-82-Embankment-Failure-under-eastbound-lanes-500x500.jpg)
I-82 closed for more than a week, once it opens a bigger fix looms ahead
Contractor crews working to remove more of the eastbound lane concrete panels. (Credit: WSDOT) Listen Read (Runtime 1:02) The major failing irrigation culverts that run under Interstate-82 between Yakima and
![Young adult books at the Columbia County Library. Some people have requested to move the YA section into the adult section because of what they call "obscene" material in 100 of the around 800 books. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / Northwest News Network)](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/YABooks2.Dayton.CourtneyFlatt.82423-500x500.jpeg)
Dissolving library districts is a hot topic, WA bill could make it harder to do
Young adult books at the Columbia County Library. Some people have requested to move the YA section into the adult section because of what they call “obscene” material in 100
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Public health adds porta potties following unhoused residents’ move to Clarkston park
Two portable toilets were installed at Foster Park in Clarkston on Friday morning after some unhoused residents started sleeping at the park following the closure of a homeless camp on February 12th.
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Bill swap, money talks, and initiative hints: A look at week 6 of WA’s legislative session
By: Jeanie Lindsey, NW News Network With just a few weeks left in this year’s legislative session, Washington lawmakers are starting to unveil budget plans and consider bills in the
![An aerial photo shows the lower village of Taholah near a bright blue ocean.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/taholah-500x490.jpg)
Funding for Northwest tribes to help challenges with housing, climate change
Listen An aerial view of the lower village of Taholah, Washington on the edge of the Pacific Coast. (Credit: Quinault Indian Nation) (Runtime :48) Read New funding from the U.S.
![Cory James (left) talks with John "Cowboy" Parke as the remaining unhoused residents pack up their belongings at the homeless camp in Clarkston Monday evening. (Credit: August Frank / the Lewiston Tribune)](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/65cb1a84cbbdf.image_-500x500.jpg)
Unhoused residents pack up in Clarkston
Unhoused residents in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley found bathrooms locked on Foster Park after they moved there from a camp that was closed Monday evening in Clarkston. NWPB’s Rachel Sun reports.
![Tacoma Water employees walk alongside the Green River Dam. Most of Tacomans' water comes from this source. (Credit: Lauren Gallup / NWPB)](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_7437-500x500.jpg)
Keeping a close eye on Tacoma’s water
East of Tacoma, across Highway 18, down a packed gravel road, and behind a locked metal gate, Tacoma Water churns over the Green River. This is the source for most of Tacoma’s drinking water.
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