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Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed House Bill 1512 into law on Monday, May 1 as supporters and bill sponsors looked on.

New online toolkit to provide help, comfort to families with missing loved ones

By signing into law House Bill 1512, Washington state will create an online toolkit meant to assist families and law enforcement seeking to locate and recover missing persons. The act, known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Persons and Lucian Act, is in part named after Lucian Munguia, who was 4 years old when he went missing in Yakima last September. His body was recovered in December.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed three new gun bills into law Tuesday, including an assault weapons ban that takes immediate effect

Washington governor signs new gun bills into law, including 'assault weapons' ban

Surrounded by gun reform advocates, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed three new gun control bills Tuesday morning, including a ban on the import and sale of high capacity and semiautomatic firearms.

In a flower, friends remember Idaho victim

By Serafina LemosIn the colorful fields of the Skagit Valley's tulip farms, many local high school students find work.Ethan Chapin, a lifelong resident of…

A view from the edge of the cliff where the Goldendale Energy Storage Project could be built. An underground tunnel would carry water from a upper reservoir to a reservoir down below. (Credit: Courtney Flatt / NW News Network)

Federal regulators want public input on Goldendale Energy Storage Project

(Runtime 1:07) A major new energy storage facility for the Northwest is one step closer to being built, with federal regulators releasing new documents…

Tea guests enjoying the British tea room, Sweet Peas Tea Room, in Battle Ground, Washington. Photo courtesy of Sweet Peas Tea Room.

How some in the Pacific Northwest are preparing for King Charles III's coronation

At Sweet Peas Tea Room in Battle Ground, Washington, the Union Jack will fly proudly for the coronation, May 6 of King Charles III. Owner Sharon Harbeck is hosting a full English tea at the British tea room she and her daughter, Chantelle, have run for six years.

Language exchange program brings communities together in Yakima

(Runtime 1:55)In Yakima, a community-based organization helps Spanish and English speakers to gain confidence and improve their communication skills. A…

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.

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