Idaho Legislature passes bill to expand prison sex abuse law
The bill, inspired by InvestigateWest reporting, is awaiting Gov. Brad Little’s signature
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Administrative delays cost Yakima County $1.1M in federal rent relief
Yakima was the only Washington county to have rent assistance funds forcibly reallocated under the federal 'use it or lose it' approach.
When the heat is unbearable but there’s nowhere to go
How last year’s record-breaking heat wave caused misery and chaos for Washington’s incarcerated population — and why it’s set to happen all over again.
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
Water contamination worsened as DEQ went easy on Port of Morrow
SPECIAL REPORT: State officials rarely intervened and never stopped the port as it dumped hundreds of tons of excess nitrogen over a critical groundwater area
Idaho’s ‘wind rush’ meets opposition outside a WWII prison camp
Friends of Minidoka say the Lava Ridge wind farm’s 400 turbines would disrespect a sacred memorial.
