Defensores piden restauración del medio ambiente durante el “Viaje de Hanford”

By Johanna Bejarano
Hanford Journey 2022
Recorrido en bote por el río Columbia durante el “Hanford Journey”, para celebrar la defensa de la limpieza. Crédito: Bear Sky Media. Read A medida que el presupuesto para limpieza de Hanford—antiguo complejo de producción nuclear en Central Washington—se ha ido reduciendo en los últimos años, los nativos americanos y los ecologistas exigen la restauración… Read More

“Prepare For Higher Than Average Fire Season,” Says Washington Forest Protection Association

By Lauren Paterson
A woman walks through a thick green washington forest with light streaming in behind the trees.
Paula Swedeen, a forest policy specialist for the Washington Environmental Council, walks through forest land adjacent to Mount Rainier National Park. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Listen Reporter Lauren Paterson tells us how now is the time to prepare for wildfire season. (Runtime 1:00) Read Jason Spadaro is the executive director of the Washington Forest Protection… Read More

What Does Peace Mean to You? ‘Traverse Talks’ Episode 25 – With Peace Campaigner Kwabi Amoah-Forson

By Ashley Beard
Over the shoulder photo of Kwabi sitting across from Sueann/ kwabi has on e hand out stretched and he appears to explain something to Sueann. She listens in the foreground.
Photo of Kwabi Amoah-Forson recording Traverse Talks in the KTVI Tacoma studios on December 4, 2021. Peace campaigner and humanitarian, Kwabi Amoah-Forson, journeyed across America asking people what “peace” means to them. From Tacoma, Washington to Washington, D.C. Kwabi traveled in a baby blue Mitsubishi van known as The Peace Bus delivering humanitarian aid and… Read More

Lethal Removal, Range Rider Concerns Raised At Washington Wolf Advisory Group Meeting

By Courtney Flatt
Wolf in snow
For the first time, a wolf wearing a radio collar traveled south of Interstate-90 into Washington’s Southern Cascade Mountains. Photo Credit: Eric Kilby Flickr – Tinyurl.Com/Gngh5n7 Listen Read For the first time, a wolf wearing a radio collar has crossed south of Interstate-90 into Washington’s southern Cascade Mountains, biologists with the Department of Fish Read More

Undocumented Workers, Disproportionately Hit By Pandemic, May Get More Help In Washington

By NWPB News
Ramón Núñez is currently driving for food delivery services to make money after switching from driving for Uber in order to lessen his exposure to COVID-19. He is photographed in Issaquah on Jan. 27, 2021. He is one of about 60,000 undocumented immigrants to get funds from the state during the pandemic. CREDIT: Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut
If approved next month, the additional $70 million would make Washington state a nationwide leader in help offered to the undocumented community, which has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, Latino and Black people in particular. Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an unprecedented $125 million in aid for undocumented workers. Washington state Read More
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