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Republican budget bill could cut services for roughly half of WA Planned Parenthood patients
Three years ago, the Supreme Court repealed the federal right to abortion. Now, possible cuts to Medicaid funding for clinics that provide abortion could affect Washington state.
What’s needed to get spring Chinook back to Walla Walla? Cooperation — and patience
For decades, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation has been working with farmers and states to bring spring Chinook salmon back to the Walla Walla Basin. Their efforts are finally paying off.
Workforce training program to offer professional development for caretakers
A pilot apprenticeship program for caretakers may soon help more people develop workforce skills.
How is the implementation of residential zoning changes going in Tacoma?
The city of Tacoma loosened restrictions on what kinds of housing can be built in its neighborhoods. Now, people can build duplexes, triplexes and other multi-unit dwellings in areas that used to be only for single-family homes.
The city’s Home in Tacoma initiative was implemented to help address the region’s housing crisis. The flexibility of more units on single lots is meant to vary the kinds of homes people can rent or buy. By doing so, the city hopes that will decrease costs.
A ‘perfect’ season for Washington’s sweet cherries turns sour because of deportation fears
Cherry growers say the threat of deportations under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is keeping the migrant workforce they rely on this time of year from showing up to work. They describe an increasingly urgent labor crisis that could leave cherries rotting in the field, and farmers holding the bill.
Grupos buscan mejorar comunicación sobre incendios forestales con hispanohablantes en Washington
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.
Town hall helps Wenatchee Valley families talk to their children in the wake of the deaths of three young girls
At a town hall in East Wenatchee, a brown dog named Ruffles Lackey made the rounds, inviting attendees to rub her belly. Ruffles, an animal-assisted crisis response dog, was there to comfort community members coping with stress and grief.
Pasco-based rescue helping rehome dogs from Whitman county animal hoarding case
A Pasco-based animal rescue is helping rehome and foster dogs from an animal hoarding case out of Whitman County.
The president just unraveled years of work on tribal rights, salmon and clean energy. So what happens next?
Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.
This story comes to you from Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
Scientists band burrowing owls to help research around the world
“The amount of information that comes out of this colony is unprecedented. It’s amazing. It has contributed to nine different topics of discovery for the whole species. So, it’s pretty incredible.”
Wenatchee Valley businesses collect cash donations in memory of Decker sisters
Cash donations were raised by local businesses in the Wenatchee Valley to help support the mother of the three Decker girls.
Concejo de Sunnyside nombra administrador interino de la ciudad
El Concejo de Sunnyside nombró a Jim Bridges como el nuevo administrador interino de la ciudad durante su reunión ordinaria de esta semana.
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