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(Runtime 1:01) This year, Washington state faces a significant budget shortfallsomewhere between $10 and $12 billion. As lawmakers meet for the…

Tours of an allegedly haunted hospital first helped to breathe new life into Colfax’s downtown nine years ago. Now, ghost hunters’ curiosity about the hospital’s residents beyond the grave are helping to save the historic building

Summer is here, and that means farmers markets. NWPB’s Rachel Sun visited one market in Lewiston, Idaho and talked to vendors about their goods.

About 1,200 people live in Waitsburg – a city surrounded by rolling hills and farmland, a half hour from Walla Walla. Markeeta Little Wolf said it has a…

As the Dry January trend continues this new year, more non-alcoholic beverage options line market shelves than ever before. Lauren Paterson takes us…

Companies large and small around the Pacific Northwest say they are excited by growth opportunities that may flow from the climate, healthcare and tax package signed by President Biden on Tuesday. Turbocharged federal spending could benefit the region’s green energy sector in particular, although congressional Republicans remain dubious that Americans on the whole will come out ahead.

San Francisco Bay area company Sila Nanotechnologies purchased a vacant factory in Moses Lake, Washington, and announced plans Tuesday to open a big operation there to produce advanced battery materials to power electric cars.

More Murrow News StoriesPULLMAN, WASH - A new Starbucks may be heading to downtown Pullman soon, but some locals aren't so happy about it.The Pullman City…

A complex deal is taking shape to revive the Pacific Northwest's last remaining aluminum smelter. Alcoa idled its Intalco Works smelter near Ferndale, Washington, a year-and-a-half ago and laid off virtually all the workers there. The plan to bring this industry back involves a new owner, cash from taxpayers and an uncertain new contract for cut-rate wholesale power.