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Six brown sausages sit on top of a black grill. Orange flames crawl up the grill and onto the sausages.

WSU researchers win historic FDA approval for gene-edited pork

(Runtime 3:58)At a barbecue on campus last week, flames licked a set of sausage links as scientist Blake Foraker worked on achieving perfect grill…

Celestino Mendoza, 68, of Kennewick, says it’s been a lot of work to harvest a giant push of asparagus with the record-warm spring weather across much of the Northwest

Spring push: Long cool spring, then record warm weather sends Northwest farmers scrambling

Celestino Mendoza loads colorful plastic asparagus lugs off the flatbed of a '95 Ford pickup at the end of a warm day.His woven straw hat shades his face,…

MMIWP forum in Yakima. (Credit: Johanna Bejarano / NWPB)

MMIWP awareness events raise Native voices in search for missing loved ones

As the national awareness month on the crisis starts, families continue calling attention to the barriers and challenges they experience when addressing the missing and murdered indigenous women and people MMIW/P crisis in Washington.

Chay Squally and Sarah Colleen Sotomish at the Nisqually Indian Tribal Summit on May 4. Photo courtesy of Debbie Preston.

Nisqually Tribe’s sovereignty summit focuses on MMIWP crisis

Washington state has one of the largest numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples cases in the nation.On May 4, the Nisqually Indian Tribe’s Annual Protecting Our Sovereignty Tribal Summit focused on the missing and murdered Indigenous peoples crisis.

Tom Banse / NW News Network Elected officials and corporate leaders gathered in a Paine Field hangar to celebrate the handover of a retired Alaska Airlines Q400 turboprop, which will be converted to hydrogen-electric propulsion over the next year

Retired Alaska Airlines turboprop to get new life as 'world's largest' hydrogen-powered plane

Alaska Airlines ceremonially handed over a surplus turboprop airliner on Monday to a company that aims to turn it into the largest hydrogen-powered plane yet to fly.

MMIWP gathering for healing in Seattle, 2022. (Crédito: Johanna Bejarano / NWPB)

MMIWP: Comunidades indígenas siguen alzando sus voces en la búsqueda de sus seres queridos

Al comenzar el mes nacional de concientización sobre los casos de mujeres y personas indígenas desaparecidas y asesinadas (MMIW/P), las familias siguen llamando la atención sobre las barreras y los retos que experimentan al abordar la crisis en Washington.

News Roundup – What's Happening In Central Washington?

Central Washington is an agricultural powerhouse. In the summer, it’s often dominated by headlines of fires (and smoke) affecting the region. But from the Columbia River to Cascade Crest, from Canada to Oregon, there’s a lot going on. NWPB Yakima Valley correspondent Esmy Jimenez talks with news manager Scott Leadingham about deeper stories she's covering.

Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday that he is rescinding the requirement for state employees to get their COVID-19 shot as a condition for keeping their jobs

Washington ends COVID-19 vaccine requirements for state employees

Washington State employees will no longer be required to get a COVID-19 vaccination in order to keep their jobs.

Daniel Legeer of Lacey, Washington, was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm under a new law that requires gun dealers to report failed background checks. He believes he is an unintended target of the new law. CREDIT: AUSTIN JENKINS

It's A Crime To Lie And Try To Buy A Gun, Now People In Washington Are Being Prosecuted

A new Washington state law designed to crack down on felons, domestic abusers and others who lie and try to buy a gun is already resulting in prosecutions.

Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr investiture to the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit.

First Eastern Washington judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sworn in

Judge Salvador Mendoza Junior is the first Latino in Washington to receive his investiture as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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