The U.S. Navy recently located the deceased Growler crew east of Mount Rainier. (Credit: Anna King / NWPB) Listen (Runtime :53) Read Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with […]Read More
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Creator and host Alec Cowan’s shadow during a tour of the Sunday Mine Complex, a complex of five uranium mines in the Big Gypsum Valley near Paradox, Colorado, on Feb. […]Read More
A field of WSU’s new variety, Bush wheat, growing near Lynden, Washington. (Credit: Washington State University) Listen (Runtime 1:05) Read Editor’s Note: Northwest Public Broadcasting acknowledges that all of what’s […]Read More
Brandon Hopkins, a bee researcher with Washington State University, points May 15 with his hive tool to the new bee larvae cells where baby bees develop in the hive near […]Read More
Fly, you die: Northwest bees that fly during mild winter weather less likely to survive until spring
Brandon Hopkins, 42, with Washington State University, stands in front of the university’s bee colonies at a facility in Othello, Washington, where he and a team were examining the hives. […]Read More
The sun sets on Friday, June 17, 2022, at the Freedom Rodeo in Basin City. (Credit: Megan Farmer / KUOW) Read May 13, 2024 Northwest Public Broadcasting and KUOW have […]Read More
Jim Willard shows “bud break” on an old block of concord grapes eight miles north of Prosser, Washington. The baby leaves and buds start pushing out to become grown vines […]Read More
A 2021 aerial photo of Hanford’s 200 Area, which houses the tanks and under-construction Waste Treatment Plant, in southeast Washington. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy) Listen (Runtime 1:01) Read There […]Read More
FBI, county and police officials wait for the all-clear to collect evidence at the home of Elias Huizar, 39, where his 17-year-old girlfriend, Angelica Santos, was found dead. (Credit: Anna […]Read More
Barley, a Jersey cow, and some of her herdmates on pasture last spring at Steensma Dairy & Creamery. (Credit: Steensma Family Dairy & Creamery) Listen (Runtime 1:06) Read Some Northwest […]Read More
Northwest dairy cattle eat rations out of a feed bunk. (Credit: Washington State Department of Agriculture) Listen (Runtime :58) Read Experts say they are not sure how the highly-pathogenic avian […]Read More
A snapshot of the Hanford cleanup site showing the various groundwater plumes across the site. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy / Office of Environmental Management) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read A […]Read More
At the top of a hill, a tractor with a 17-foot wide planter plugs seed potatoes into the sandy ground at the Ice Harbor Hilltop Farm east of Burbank. (Credit: […]Read More
This image provided by Boise Police Department shows Nicholas Umphenour (left), who has been identified by police as the man suspected of shooting corrections officers at a Boise hospital in […]Read More
A group of elk runs from Yakama Nation hunters on the Hanford Reach National Monument in December 2023. (Credit: Star Diavolikis / Yakama Nation) Listen (Runtime 3:50) Read A video […]Read More
Erin Whorton, a hydrologist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, measures snow on South Cascade Glacier in Washington. (Credit: Erin Whorton / NRCS) Listen (Runtime :58) Read The snowpack in […]Read More
Workers clear canals of debris in preparation for spring irrigation season in the Roza Irrigation District. (Courtesy: Dave Rollinger) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read A story in plot points: a federal […]Read More
The Northport Bridge over the Columbia River in Washington state near the border with Canada. Portions of the upper Columbia River and its upland areas may be designated a Superfund […]Read More
Pinot noir grapes at Oregon State University’s Woodhall Vineyard undergoing smoke experiments. (Credit: Sean Nealon / OSU) Listen (Runtime :54) Read Researchers are developing special coatings to protect Northwest wines […]Read More
Contractor crews working to remove more of the eastbound lane concrete panels. (Credit: WSDOT) Listen Read (Runtime 1:02) The major failing irrigation culverts that run under Interstate-82 between Yakima and […]Read More
Stevie Haberman plays piano with singer Mary Lou Gnoza and Gary Danielson. (Credit: Annie Warren / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 4:33) Read The Emerald of Siam is the night spot for […]Read More
Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is escorted to an extradition hearing at the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. […]Read More
Listen (Runtime :59) Read When you think your weather’s been bad in the Northwest, think of the residents of Corbett, Oregon. John Jordan lives there, on the blustery cusp of […]Read More
A washing machine was abandoned on the side of the road outside Kennewick. The Washington State Department of Transportation has noticed an uptick in appliances and other junk that’s illegally […]Read More
An icy parking lot near Brighton, Oregon. Many people have fallen, or had pipes burst in the cold and icy weather. (Credit: Tracci Dial / NWPB) Listen (Runtime :57) Read […]Read More
Watch Listen (Runtime 4:05) Read In the quiet intention of morning, Mike Easton runs his floured hands over sheets of wide pasta. It makes a rhythmic shhhhhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhhhhhh shushing sound, […]Read More
Demolition of the King Road House in Moscow, Idaho began shortly after 6 a.m. local time on December 28, 2023. (Credit: Julie Scott) Listen (Runtime 1:03) Read The house where […]Read More
Sergio Madrigal and his wife, Rosa, stand outside the farm they owned, until recently, near Sunnyside, Washington. (Courtesy: Anna King / Northwest News Network) Listen (Runtime 2:56) Read It has […]Read More
Cloe McMichael, 22, sets the table in the longhouse in Mission, Ore. ahead of the annual Indian New Year ceremony, which is celebrated on the Winter Solstice. The feast is […]Read More
Rattlesnake Mountain, known as Laliik by Tribes of the Columbia Basin, is incredibly important to Tribal nations. Now, the Biden Administration has announced its intention to work closely with Tribes […]Read More
The poured glass appears emerald green, just before it’s lidded and transported to an export bay at Hanford in southeast Washington. Hanford officials are celebrating this first container of glass […]Read More
Shana McConville Radford is taking on the newly-formed position of tribal affairs director with the state of Oregon. (Courtesy of Shana McConville Radford) Listen (Runtime :57) Read Oregon Gov. Tina […]Read More
The last in-person public meeting about Hanford cleanup was in Richland in 2019. (Courtesy of Washington State Department of Ecology) Listen (Runtime :56) Read The public can ask questions and […]Read More
Freshly picked red delicious apples gather in a bin. Northwest red delicious and galas are again shipping to India after tariffs were lifted. (Courtesy: Washington Apple Commission) Read Many Northwest […]Read More
Energy Northwest is expected to get a second “white finding” from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission over worker exposures two years ago at the Columbia Generating Station near Richland. (Photo […]Read More
“Radio Free Olympia” is a book about a handful of characters, one of whom, Petr, is raised on the Olympic Peninsula. Without traditional parents, he’s also raised by the landscape. Petr guides readers through folklore of the peninsula by broadcasting spirits on a homemade radio. Reporter Lauren Gallup sat down with Jeffrey Dunn to discuss what inspired this surreal story Read More
Employees at Cornerstone Cottage alerted state officials to the dangers, only to be fired themselves Cornerstone Cottage opened in 2016 in Post Falls, Idaho, a booming bedroom community 25 miles […]Read More
There was a breeze, clouds and humidity in the air in West Seattle that hadn’t been there for days on the morning of July 30, as visitors to Alki Beach found seats or meandered down to the shore, waiting.
A little after 11 a.m., as the sun began to break through the gray, the tip of a canoe and its passengers’ paddles could just be seen cutting across the water, the Read More
This historical photo, provided to Oregon Public Broadcasting by Pacific University archivist Eva Guggemos, shows seven boys who came to the Forest Grove Indian Training School from the Spokane Tribe […]Read More
David Turk, federal Deputy Secretary of Energy, speaks to about 100 people during an informational meeting about potential clean energy development at Hanford. (Credit: Anna King / Northwest News Network) […]Read More
Ethan Chapin (left) Maizie Chapin (middle) and Hunter Chapin (right) in a family photo. Hunter and Maizie are still attending University of Idaho and are part of Greek life. (Courtesy: […]Read More
The historic Marcus Whitman Hotel in Walla Walla is taped off and shut down until officials can learn more about the plume of gasoline underneath some of downtown Listen (Runtime […]Read More
Children play recently at Howard Amon park in Richland, near a sign warning of toxic algae. (Credit: Anna King / Northwest News Network.) Read The Environmental Protection Agency will begin […]Read More
Large fires surrounding Spokane level homes and send people and livestock fleeing Read More
Maple, the 7-year-old yellow lab, takes a swift lick on a couple of milkers near Sunnyside, Washington. (Photo: Anna King) Listen (Runtime 3:54) Read It’s hot! It hit about 110 […]Read More
Fire crews tend the Trinity Fire just outside the Tri-Cities on August 14. (Photo: Anna King) There is a new several hundred acre fire burning part of Rattlesnake Mountain near […]Read More
Northwest wine industry leader, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, dumps about 40 percent of its contracts with Washington growers. (Photo courtesy of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates.) Read The massive Northwest wine […]Read More
Holstein dairy cattle loaf in their pens at Threemile Canyon Farms. New regulations adopted by Oregon seek to tighten cattle watering regulations. (Photo: Courtesy of Friends of Family Farmers.) Read […]Read More
Cody Easterday walks with family members from the Federal Courthouse on South Third Street after being sentenced to 11 years, on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, in Yakima. KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer […]Read More
Director Dan Merchant signals to actors on set during a “Going Home” scene filmed in Rosalia, Washington. (Credit: D.S. Schaefer / Outlier Imaging) Listen (Runtime 1:02) Read While the writer’s […]Read More
