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Diana Tomback studies whitebark pine across the West in places like the Custer-Gallatin National Forest outside Yellowstone. (E.R.

Whitebark pines are in trouble. That means our water supply is, too

Diana Tomback studies whitebark pine across the West in places like the Custer-Gallatin National Forest outside Yellowstone. (E.R.

April 15, 2024, 6:03am Latest News

At the Dorena Genetic Resource Center near Cottage Grove, Ore., scientists are collecting whitebark pine cones, growing seedlings, examining them for resilience to disease and then gathering cones from the strongest survivors. Read story

Amazon's immense multi-level warehouse, called a fulfillment center, in Kent, Washington.

WA has one of the highest workplace injury rates in the U.S. But is that really a problem?

Amazon's immense multi-level warehouse, called a fulfillment center, in Kent, Washington.

April 15, 2024, 6:00am Business

At first glance, Washington’s workplace injury numbers are alarming. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, the state saw 3.9 injuries and illnesses for every 100 full-time workers, tied for the second highest rate of any state in the country. When you factor in government workers, that number rises to… Read story

A supervisor looks up at a worker pulling honey crisp apples off trees during a thinning operation June 16 at an orchard in Yakima.

‘Gone for good.’ U.S. workers flee farms, leaving WA growers struggling under old rules

A supervisor looks up at a worker pulling honey crisp apples off trees during a thinning operation June 16 at an orchard in Yakima.

April 15, 2024, 6:00am Business

The beating heart of Washington’s agriculture industry is in danger, but a central Washington lawmaker has a plan to help shore up the most critical issue farmers are facing — a disappearing workforce dependent on migrant labor. Read story

Washington orchardists prepare for water shortage, conservation

April 14, 2024, 4:24pm Northwest

Washington orchards are preparing for water shortages with a possible drought after a winter of low snowpack levels. Read story

Tracy Toulou, the outgoing Director of the Office of Tribal Justice, stands in a hallway lined with flags of tribal nations at the Department of Justice, Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Washington. For more than two decades, Toulou has confronted the serious public safety challenges facing Indian Country by working to expand the power of tribal justice systems. Today, tribal law enforcement finally has a seat at the table when federal authorities coordinate with state and local police, according to the Justice Department&rsquo;s point person on Native American tribes.

How to tackle crime in Indian Country? Empower tribal justice, ex-Justice Department official says

Tracy Toulou, the outgoing Director of the Office of Tribal Justice, stands in a hallway lined with flags of tribal nations at the Department of Justice, Thursday, March 14, 2024, in Washington. For more than two decades, Toulou has confronted the serious public safety challenges facing Indian Country by working to expand the power of tribal justice systems. Today, tribal law enforcement finally has a seat at the table when federal authorities coordinate with state and local police, according to the Justice Department&rsquo;s point person on Native American tribes.

April 14, 2024, 4:23pm Northwest

A quarter-century ago, the Justice Department had few meaningful relationships with Native American tribes. Read story

FILE - Amanda Knox, left, talks to reporters as her mother, Edda Mellas, right, looks on outside Mellas&#039; home in Seattle, Friday, March 27, 2015. Amanda Knox faces yet another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last remaining guilty verdict against her nine years after Italy&#039;s highest court definitively threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher. (AP Photo/Ted S.

What to know about the latest trial involving Amanda Knox

FILE - Amanda Knox, left, talks to reporters as her mother, Edda Mellas, right, looks on outside Mellas&#039; home in Seattle, Friday, March 27, 2015. Amanda Knox faces yet another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last remaining guilty verdict against her nine years after Italy&#039;s highest court definitively threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher. (AP Photo/Ted S.

April 14, 2024, 3:16pm Northwest

Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Read story

The Rogue River is seen on Friday, March 22, 2024, in Grants Pass, Ore. The rural city of Grants Pass in southern Oregon has become the unlikely face of the nation&#039;s homelessness crisis as its case over anti-camping laws goes to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case has broad implications for cities, including whether they can fine or jail people for camping in public.

Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the U.S. Supreme Court

The Rogue River is seen on Friday, March 22, 2024, in Grants Pass, Ore. The rural city of Grants Pass in southern Oregon has become the unlikely face of the nation&#039;s homelessness crisis as its case over anti-camping laws goes to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case has broad implications for cities, including whether they can fine or jail people for camping in public.

April 14, 2024, 12:13pm Latest News

A pickleball game in this leafy Oregon community was suddenly interrupted one rainy weekend morning by the arrival of an ambulance. Paramedics rushed through the park toward a tent, one of dozens illegally erected by the town's hundreds of homeless people, then play resumed as though nothing had happened. Read story

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney speaks during a visit by President Barack Obama to the Everett widebody jet plant in 2012. McNerney led Boeing for 10 years, during which he fought the unions and set up the company&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s East Coast manufacturing facilities.

Boeing’s long fall, and how it might recover

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney speaks during a visit by President Barack Obama to the Everett widebody jet plant in 2012. McNerney led Boeing for 10 years, during which he fought the unions and set up the company&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s East Coast manufacturing facilities.

April 14, 2024, 6:05am Business

The intense backlash against Boeing after the near catastrophe aboard an Alaska Airlines 737 Max in January wasn’t a reaction to an isolated manufacturing error but to a yearslong decline of safety standards. Read story

Boeing employees work on the 737 MAX on the final assembly line at Boeing&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s Renton, Washington, plant on June 15, 2022. (Ellen M.

FAA’s ‘cozy’ relationship with Boeing at issue again after Alaska Air blowout

Boeing employees work on the 737 MAX on the final assembly line at Boeing&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s Renton, Washington, plant on June 15, 2022. (Ellen M.

April 14, 2024, 6:00am Business

Following the crashes of two 737 MAX jets that left more than 300 people dead and Boeing’s reputation for safety in tatters, Congress held probing hearings that unmasked limp and malleable federal oversight of how American planes are built. Read story

University of Washington School of Medicine graduate Lili Szabo recently matched to a Spokane internal medicine residency with Providence Sacred Heart, and she hopes to remain in Spokane. She did her UW studies in Spokane.

Recent Spokane UW med school grads share hopes of healing as residencies come into focus

University of Washington School of Medicine graduate Lili Szabo recently matched to a Spokane internal medicine residency with Providence Sacred Heart, and she hopes to remain in Spokane. She did her UW studies in Spokane.

April 14, 2024, 6:00am Health

Caitlin Quaempts, a new University of Washington-Spokane medical school graduate, will begin a family medicine residency this June for a path she hopes returns her to the Yakama Nation. Read story