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Francisco Gonzalez, 36, said he has a new house, furniture and a car to pay for. Plus, his wife and two young daughters.“Now we’re stuck with these…

(Runtime 1:02)For two years, Northwest farmers didn’t have enough potatoes for processors.The crops yielded under what was expected. Processors were…

(Runtime 1:06)Some Northwest dairy farmers have experienced low milk prices, belly-high flooding, extreme heat, extreme cold events and fires in the past…

Nestled between farm hills in the Columbia Basin, about 8,700 people call Othello, Washington home. The agrarian town was awarded $250,000 in rural…

Golden slopes full of soft, white wheat roll and dive down along the snakey, Snake River – just out of Windust in southeastern Washington.A farmer rolls a…

(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…

These clumsy-flying beetles especially love roses, hops, wine and juice grapes – they even like cherries. Now, the invasive Japanese beetles – smaller…

(Runtime :50)The Biden Administration approved nearly $200 million in federal funding to help communities, including those in the Northwest, prepare for…

Pandemic Relief Expiring Means Northwest Children Will Miss Healthy School Meals

Seattle’s technology billionaires are many things: innovators, visionaries, philanthropists and some less polite descriptors, depending on whom you ask. But thanks to some scrupulous digging by industry journal The Land Report, which tracks land ownership across the country, we now know that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has another feather in his multi hyphenated career cap: America’s Top Private Owner of Farmland.