summer

On any given summer night in Tacoma, you can find a community of like-minded people. That is, if you like baseball. Everytime I go to a baseball game, I get caught up in all the sounds.From the announcers calling plays, to the crack of the ball against a wooden bat, to fans cheering and screaming after a home run. For me, the sounds of baseball are the sounds of summer.

Spring is officially here, and that means farmers markets are back. NWPB’s Rachel Sun visited with vendors at the first week of the Moscow Farmers Market.

Four days a week, Kevin Ruby’s team is responding to calls and, often complaints, about people experiencing homelessness in Tacoma.“We always are trying to put people in touch with resources,” Ruby said. “It's just the resources right now, this week, last week, this time of year in general, include a lot more often water, cooling shelters, transportation to cooling shelters, and information regarding all of that.”

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.

Just in time for the Fourth of July holiday, the west side of Washington is going to see some sunny, hot weather. The daytime highs of 80- and 90- plus degrees being predicted might still seem abnormal to those who call the Puget Sound basin home, but those temperatures are on trend with the hotter summers climatologists have been tracking.Historically, Western Washington would get one or two days of 90-plus degrees in the summer. But, now, that’s happening about twice as often, said Nick Bond, the Washington state climatologist and a research scientist with the University of Washington.

Music for that free flow of summer, when adventure - or a nap - can happen at any moment. There's music written by composers on Summer retreats, and music that evokes the sun-faded feeling.

Free School Meals To End This Summer

Any visitors to the national park are getting blunt advice: "Travel prepared to survive." It's part of a heat wave that is forcing rolling blackouts in the West.

The haiku that listeners sent us about summer evoked all kinds of memories. Some said the season reminds them of ice cream or trips to the beach. Others shared precious memories of young love.