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Starting over in a new country is not easy, but a Southeastern Washington organization helps refugee families create a path to success through education.

WestRock, a Georgia-based corrugated packaging company, announced that its paper mill on the Tacoma tideflats will close up shop at the end of September. The mill has been in operation for nearly 100 years, processing wood fibers into paper and emitting sulfurous scents infamous for contributing to the Tacoma Aroma.

A Pasco City Council member is running to keep his spot in District 3. But Irving Brown says racist attacks are targeting his campaign.

El Concejal de Pasco Irving Brown es candidato para seguir representando al Distrito 3, pero dice que su campaña está siendo blanco de ataques racistas.

La biblioteca del condado de Columbia, en el sureste de Washington, se encuentra a menos de una cuadra de la calle principal de Dayton, en un edificio histórico de ladrillo rojo que alberga más de 30.000 libros.

On the final day of the Washington legislative session last week, lawmakers passed a bill to make it easier to prosecute police for negligent shootings. It was a compromise agreed to by groups on all sides to keep a potentially divisive initiative off the November ballot.

The current deputy director of the CIA is well-respected by intelligence professionals, but she is tied inextricably with the agency's dark chapters involving torture.

Heynderickx — a Portland, Ore. songwriter and NPR Slingshot artist — entered the Contest three years in a row. She says the Contest has helped her musical career in ways she never expected.

A three-year drought has brought on water restrictions — and talk of "Day Zero," when Cape Town, South Africa will run out of water. But for many people in the townships, a short supply is nothing new.

(Runtime 1:13)Northwest researchers have discovered that turtle shells can help track radioactive material through time — like “walking tree rings.”…