Anna King
Anna King calls Richland, Washington home and loves unearthing great stories about people in the Northwest. She reports for the Northwest News Network from a studio at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. She covers the Mid-Columbia region, from nuclear reactors to Mexican rodeos.
The South Sound was her girlhood backyard and she knows its rocky beaches, mountain trails and cities well. She left the west side to attend Washington State University and spent an additional two years studying language and culture in Italy.
While not on the job, Anna enjoys trail running, clam digging, hiking and wine tasting with friends. She’s most at peace on top a Northwest mountain with her husband and their muddy Aussie-dog Poa.
NORTHWEST NEWS Correspondent
News Posts
![File photo. As coronavirus cases top 200 in Washington state's largest psychiatric hospital, officials are implementing new procedures to try to get it under control. Making matters worse, the economic downturn that resulted from the pandemic, and the loss of revenues needed to run state government, is forcing the Department of Health and Human Services to make budget cuts, including layoffs. CREDIT: Ted S. Warren/AP](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Western-State-Hospital-Washington-state-CREDIT-Ted-S-Warren-AP-300x200.jpeg)
COVID Cases At Washington’s Largest Psychiatric Hospital Top 200, As Staff Will Be Laid Off
COVID-19 has hit at least 158 hospital workers since March, which takes them off the schedule and means a lot of overtime for the workers left on the wards. At least 64 patients have tested positive and one has died. Making matters worse, the economic downturn that resulted from the pandemic, and the loss of revenues needed to run state government s forcing the Department of Social and Health Services to make budget cuts, including layoffs.
![The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, shown here in a hospital in Denver. CREDIT: David Zalubowski/AP](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ap21065661043422-c7d09feb7a545d0f9a49a14bcd59e3d7043d055d-300x225.jpg)
U.S. Recommends Pausing Use Of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Over Blood Clot Concerns
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday they are recommending a “pause” in the use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine out of an “abundance of caution” while a review of reports of rare, potentially dangerous blood clots is conducted.
![Gov. Jay Inslee on May 4, 2021, signed into law a new capital gains tax and an expanded version of the state's Working Families Tax Exemption which has never before been funded. CREDIT: TVW/screenshot](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Inslee-Capital-Gains-Tax-bill-signing-050421-CREDIT-TVW-300x170.png)
Judge Throws Out Washington’s New Capital Gains Tax
Gov. Jay Inslee on May 4, 2021, signed into law a new capital gains tax. Listen Read Washington’s attorney general says he will appeal after a judge in Douglas County