Rachel Sun
Journalist, Health CareRachel Sun is a multimedia journalist covering health care and other stories around the Northwest with a special interest in reporting on underrepresented groups. Sun writes and produces radio and print news stories as part of a collaborative agreement between Northwest Public Broadcasting, The Lewiston Tribune, and the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
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Doctors are needed everywhere — but especially in rural and historically underserved populations. Washington State University hosted an event to show students how they can get into medicine. -
Four months after a program for severely mentally ill people was defunded in Idaho, the state’s Legislature moved to temporarily bring back funding for assertive community treatment, or ACT. -
The Walla Walla Community College board of trustees voted in favor of a motion to close its Clarkston campus in June 2028 if it does not acquire new, significant and sustainable funding. -
An Idaho law that goes into effect in July will make it a crime for transgender people in the state to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. -
When he was diagnosed with cancer, Sean Cassidy thought his life was over. He says he couldn’t have been more wrong. -
College leaders at Walla Walla Community College’s Clarkston campus say financial pressures have been building for years. -
Walla Walla Community College trustees are considering options to close or reduce operations at its Clarkston campus. That’s due to a reduction in state funding. -
Experts say there’s a growing need for more people in the nuclear workforce as energy demands increase. At Washington State University’s Nuclear Science Center, they’re ramping up research and training to meet that need. -
About 8% of the student population walked out on Monday morning -
Among leading cancer-related deaths for young people, mortality has decreased. But there’s one outlier.
