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‘Love who you want to love:’ Spokane Pride Parade celebrates love, acceptance

June 9, 2024, 2:55pm Northwest

Covered head to toe in rainbow-colored clothing, Grant Ogren cruised Saturday through downtown Spokane in a blue Ford Mustang, acknowledging the thousands of people cheering and waving rainbow flags on the curbs and sidewalks. Read story

Yakima Pride celebrates diversity at State Fair Park

June 9, 2024, 2:52pm Northwest

Attendees and organizers summed up this year's Yakima Pride Festival with two words: Bigger, safer. Read story

Camilo Martin, left and Jesus Pablo sit in the shade of a truck to eat lunch at the Coopertiva Tierra y Libertad farm Friday, July 7, 2023, in Everson, Wash. Farms and workers must adapt to changing climate conditions.

‘Not enough beds’: A look at the farmworker housing crisis in eastern Washington

Camilo Martin, left and Jesus Pablo sit in the shade of a truck to eat lunch at the Coopertiva Tierra y Libertad farm Friday, July 7, 2023, in Everson, Wash. Farms and workers must adapt to changing climate conditions.

June 9, 2024, 6:05am Business

Each morning at 5 a.m., Marcos Gonzalez Rios and Rogaciano Sonchez Tapia board a van with other H-2A farmworkers and take a one hour ride to an apple orchard in Royal City. They arrived from Mexico to work in eastern Washington at the end of February this year. Read story

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Northwest ski mountaineers tackle new Mount Baker glacier race

Mount Baker, Washington (iStock.com)

June 9, 2024, 6:02am Latest News

MT. BAKER NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Whatcom County — The lead skiers zipped down the Easton Glacier to a checkpoint with only handkerchief-sized red flags flapping in the stiff alpine breeze to guide them. Attached to fiberglass wands and stationed at 30-foot intervals, the course markers were among the only artificial… Read story

Seattle tries new approach for treating addiction — gift cards

June 9, 2024, 6:00am Northwest

Michael Crowley knew he wanted to quit drinking. He’s tried before, but without someone checking on his progress, holding him accountable, it hasn’t stuck. Read story

Seattle now has two of the largest outdoor murals in North America

June 9, 2024, 5:30am Life

With a frenzy of final paint strokes Wednesday morning, Seattle became home to two of the largest outdoor murals in North America. Read story

Hanford reactor tours extended by a month

June 8, 2024, 6:05am Life

Another month of tours of historic B Reactor on the Hanford nuclear site will be offered before tours close at least through 2025. Read story

Gifford Pinchot was the first director of the U.S. Forest Service. He died in 1946. (U.S.

How the Gifford Pinchot National Forest got its name — and lost its soul

Gifford Pinchot was the first director of the U.S. Forest Service. He died in 1946. (U.S.

June 8, 2024, 6:05am Entertainment

Imagine your favorite Cascades hike. Now imagine, instead of that special pocket or two of old growth you always visit along the way, every mile of that hike is lined with massive, untouched old-growth trees. Read story

Demonstrators advocating for transgender rights and healthcare stand outside of the Ohio Statehouse on Jan. 24, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday, April19, 2024, by the Biden administration. Notably absent from Biden&rsquo;s policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes.

Science alone can’t solve fairness debate on transgender athletes, says expert endocrinologist and UW professor

Demonstrators advocating for transgender rights and healthcare stand outside of the Ohio Statehouse on Jan. 24, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday, April19, 2024, by the Biden administration. Notably absent from Biden&rsquo;s policy, however, is any mention of transgender athletes.

June 8, 2024, 5:35am Health

In recent years, debate has gripped society regarding whether it is fair to allow transgender women participate in women’s sports. One University of Washington professor believes an answer to the debate cannot be found in science or simple biology. Read story

FILE - A person puts their ballot in a drop box on Oct. 27, 2020, at a library in Seattle. A Washington state judge on Friday, June 7, 2024, turned back an attempt by GOP backers of three initiatives to keep the fiscal impact of the measures off the November ballot. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Washington judge denies GOP attempt to keep financial impact of initiatives off November ballots

FILE - A person puts their ballot in a drop box on Oct. 27, 2020, at a library in Seattle. A Washington state judge on Friday, June 7, 2024, turned back an attempt by GOP backers of three initiatives to keep the fiscal impact of the measures off the November ballot. (AP Photo/Ted S.

June 7, 2024, 4:05pm Latest News

Information about how much money three GOP-backed initiatives would cost the state of Washington must appear on the November ballot, where voters can see it, a judge on Friday ruled. Read story