Idaho leaders urged to address systemic failures following prison abuse reports
InvestigateWest reporters uncovered years of sexual abuse by women’s prison guards prompting calls for independent investigation
Environment
Yakima residents aim to boost walkability with new Mile Loop concept
Although the Central Washington city's car culture reigns, intentional planning in similar small cities might be the ticket to getting environmental best practices to stick.
How Cascadia Can Prevent Another Lost Decade
Climate-warming pollution is rising in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Action in 2022 can get the region on track for 2030.
Cleaner buildings? We need to spend billions
Retrofitting programs across Cascadia make a difference, but results are probably too small and too slow.
How Vancouver aimed high yet fell short
Driven to become the world’s ‘greenest city,’ it discovered how bumpy the road could get.
An electric future? Natural gas proponents won’t go without a fight
Even a green city like Bellingham has learned it’s not easy to cap demand for fossil fuel.
Biochar ambassadors hope to save the Methow
Couple launches a nonprofit project to improve forest health, limit fires and capture carbon.
Can the West learn to share renewable power?
Insights: Proponents of a heftier, coordinated grid assess its importance — and barriers to their visions.
Fish pay the price for failed water management
Time ran out on efforts to cooperate in the Klamath Basin — and it’s now running out for two species of suckers.
A stronger electricity grid is crucial to cutting carbon. Does that make it green?
Three viewpoints: A proposal to lay cables beneath the Columbia River is met with skepticism from an Indigenous activist and the river’s advocates.