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'It's really a crisis': The fight to save small town newspapers
A handful of small town newspapers in the Pacific Northwest are facing uncertainty as they look for new publishers. It's a daunting page to turn in an ever-evolving industry, and locals are searching for ways to save them.
US wheat prices to jump, just as the Northwest is in harvest
This week, Russia bombed key Ukrainian ports – crippling major wheat exports. It also pulled out of a key agreement that allowed the export of Ukrainian grain. That’s spiking U.S. wheat futures prices on soft red winter wheat just as the Northwest starts to harvest.
As Swift arrives in Seattle, this weekend could be the busiest ever
Megastar Taylor Swift is playing two sold out shows at Lumen Field this weekend in Seattle, and the impact on the local economy is expected to be huge. "I think this is possible to be one of the busiest weekends that we can remember, in Seattle," said Rachel Smith, CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
Activists, birders rally around a massive cedar slated for removal
A massive red cedar in Seattle's Wedgwood neighborhood is slated to be removed Friday. Activists are calling attention to the tree's impact two months after the city passed its new tree ordinance.
Tribes and dairy farmers made a model renewable energy program. It’s about to get even better
Dairy farms produce large quantities of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. One Washington dairy farm, in partnership with the Tulalip Tribes, is about to take its carbon capture efforts to the next level.
Crowd of caddisflies: dingy little moth-like creatures aren't all bad
Marsha Stipe lives near the Columbia River in Richland and pretty much every day she goes for a walk along the scenic path. “Well, they’re quite annoying I’ll say that,” Stipe said. She’s talking about caddisflies, and they’re nearly everywhere in the Columbia Basin. Tan-ish, small, like...
Oregon's Cannon Beach reopens after cougar sighting on iconic coastal rock led to closure
Oregon's popular Cannon Beach has reopened after closing because of a cougar sighting on Haystack Rock. A game camera captured an image of the animal leaving the rock Sunday night, and tracks were also found heading away.
Washington legal pot farms get back to work after pesticide concerns halted operations
State regulators recently lifted the restrictions against legal cannabis growers whose products were determined to have unapproved levels of a chemical related to DDT, a pesticide banned in the U.S. in 1972. The growers didn't use DDT themselves, but their crops sit on old fruit orchards where it was used decades ago.
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