Pregnant Oregonians need more addiction and mental health support — but the state’s network is fragile
Substance use and mental health disorders are driving more maternal deaths in Oregon than any other cause
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Tree justice? Lawmakers look to revive forests in Washington cities with eye on racial environmental disparities
Despite pandemic budget crunch, push is on in Olympia to resurrect urban forestry effort killed in the last recession
After climate-protection drift and despair, a blueprint for success emerges in Cascadia
Washington state’s redoubled climate goals and fresh action plan revive hope to cut emissions. But ongoing fossil fuel development in BC could undercut Cascadia’s progress.
A Thin Green Line with Global Impact
During a decade when Cascadia's governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists fighting fossil fuel exports exceeded their wildest expectations.
A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled in Cascadia
Washington, Oregon and British Columbia pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions. In a decade full of big talk and some epic battles, they all failed.
In the wake of insurrection, Washington lawmakers look for options to derail ad hoc militias
Gun bans and new anti-paramilitary laws proposed after armed attacks on seats of government, complaints of intimidation from Black Lives Matter demonstrators
Coming Soon: "Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia"
A yearlong reporting initiative launched in January 2021, this series explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.
Outdated sewage treatment is suffocating fish in Puget Sound
Inadequately treated human waste from 79 sewage treatment plants is an important and growing cause of a breakdown in the Puget Sound ecosystem that is causing unnatural explosions of jellyfish and smelly algae, among other effects.
Washington misses its deadline to bring foster kids home from troubled out-of-state group facilities
When a Michigan boy died in May after being restrained by employees at a Sequel institution, child-welfare advocates in Washington demanded that the state bring home the foster kids remaining at Sequel facilities.
Washington foster kids detail abuse at Sequel group homes
Washington foster youths recount mistreatment at out-of-state Sequel Youth & Family Services facilities.
Laws banning private armies go unenforced in Washington
Paramilitary organizations are illegal in Washington and many other states.
Regulators crack down on misleading thrift operations
Within the last decade, state regulators across the country have accused many for-profit secondhand stores of masquerading as charities
