Pacific Northwest

While immigration enforcement is affecting Central Washington communities, it isn’t reducing Yakima Valley harvest numbers this fall, agriculture industry leaders say.

Less than two years ago, the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.This story comes to you from Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.

“At the end of the day, the consumer pays the consequences." - Alejandro Jiménez, owner of Kabana King supermarketLatino small business owners in the Northwest have been closely monitoring changes in tariffs from other countries.

On a gray, early spring morning, I drove to Steilacoom, Washington, to catch the ferry to Anderson Island. I boarded alongside the line of other cars and after parking, stepped out onto the deck of the boat. The ferry pushed off from the dock and rocked a little in the Puget Sound before steadying. I took this journey to the real Anderson Island to see from the water what inspired Northwest author Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s new novel, “Elita,” which was published earlier this year. Sundberg Lunstrum was inspired while sailing around the Puget Sound to write a mystery novel on an island. Sundberg Lunstrum read excerpts of the book at a gathering at Tacoma’s Grit City Books.

(Runtime 1:02)A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal aidfor migrant children who are in the United…

People traveled from across Washington state to rally outside of a Tacoma Safeway store in support of farm workers Monday afternoon. The United Farm Workers and their supporters are calling on Windmill Farms in Sunnyside to recognize the unionization efforts and give workers a contract. The union said workers have been trying to get recognition for two years.

Two lawsuits against the Adams County Sheriff's Office have drawn attention to the role of state and local authorities in enforcing federal immigration laws.

(Runtime 1:04)For years, Owen Wickenheiser was a wilderness and climbing ranger, primarily stationed in the Enchantments near Leavenworth Wash. He spent…

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

By: Jeanie Lindsay, Northwest News Network A judge decided Friday to press pause on part of Washington’s new “parents bill of rights” law.It comes as the…