Eighty years after the liberation of German concentration camps in 1945, historians and educators are working to ensure the atrocities are remembered. Photo by Reno Probert
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(Runtime 1:30)In Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary election, Washington state’s current Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Dave Reichert, a former U.S.… -
With the 2024 wildfire season underway, the Washington Department of Ecology is launching an enhanced air quality monitoring map to help Washingtonians… -
(Runtime 1:09) As heat waves and wildfire season continue, the Community for the Advancement of Family Education or CAFÉ, a local nonprofit, organized a…
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When Yakima Nation leaders learned in 2017 of a plan to tunnel through some of their ancestral land for a green energy development, they were caught off… -
(Runtime 1:05)Editor’s Note: Northwest Public Broadcasting acknowledges that all of what’s now Washington state is Indigenous lands. Northwest tribal… -
(Runtime 0:59)Each year Washington state continues to see drug overdose deaths rise across communities. The Wenatchee World hosts a panel with local… -
A loud whoosh brought Cortez Hopkins out of his office. Two ceiling tiles had crashed down where moments before a staffer had sat packing up records. Water trickled down as Hopkins snapped pictures of the damage. Hopkins and others were working overtime in the logistics office of the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System campus in South Seattle as nearly an inch of rain dumped on the region that Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. -
(Runtime 0:59) WENATCHEE — The third Saturday of every month, CAFÉ hosts a community event aimed at advancing community growth through education, with a… -
By: Jeanie Lindsay, Northwest News NetworkPeople running for office in Washington will begin submitting official paperwork next week to get on the ballot… -
By: Jeanie Lindsay, Northwest News NetworkDuring the penultimate week of Washington's 2024 legislative session, lawmakers left behind some major bills,… -
Processing sewage — it’s a dirty job for any city. One way governments choose to process that waste is through incineration. However, the process of burning that waste has to adhere to strict standards, including the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act.An aging incinerator the City of Lynnwood uses to process waste has become less efficient and beginning in 2020, fell out of compliance with those standards. Now, the city has paid a $550, 259 penalty to the EPA and will have to decommission the incinerator to comply with the standards. -
(Runtime 1:03) From couches to cars to hazardous waste, there has been an uptick in dumping trash on Washington roadsides. The problem extends to private… -
(Runtime 2:56)It has been almost 20 years since Sergio Madrigal and his wife, Rosa, had nearly 450 calves outside of Sunnyside. All fo the calves had to…
