Anna King
Senior CorrespondentAnna 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.
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At Hanford, several 7-foot tall containers of radioactive tank waste that have been bound up into glass by a new factory were disposed of in an engineered landfill this week. -
On Wednesday morning, Washington state declared a statewide drought. -
The Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes view their traditional foods as something that deserves the utmost respect. So, they’re striving to repurpose their food waste. -
From Wenatchee, Washington, to Owyhee, Oregon, farmers and ranchers are making tough choices about water. Poor winter snowpack throughout the region is to blame. Farmers and ranchers are looking at a dry spring, summer and fall irrigation season. -
Absolutely tiny things called winter grain mites are creating a huge problem in northern Washington state wheat fields. -
At the Hanford cleanup site, a federal contractor has agreed to pay more than $3 million to resolve labor fraud allegations. -
The Columbia Generating Station — the Northwest’s only nuclear power plant — is scheduled to come back online this week. -
The Hanford Advisory Board helps federal and state agencies prioritize radioactive cleanup at the Hanford site in southeast Washington. But the work of these stakeholders and tribes has been hindered. -
A statue to honor the Native American treaty rights leader Billy Frank Jr. is being poured at a Seattle foundry. -
Officials from the federal government have been looking closely at Hanford. Specifically, at reported anhydrous ammonia leaks at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.
