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NPR's Kirk Siegler has been reporting on the urban-rural divide in America, including coverage in Idaho and throughout the Northwest. We talk about some…
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This is an encore of this interview which was first aired in March of 2015. Jonathan Evison’s novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, is an…
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Eleven biologists who study the greater sage grouse tell top federal officials the government isn't preparing to do enough to protect the ground-dwelling…
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Northwest history is colliding with the need to upgrade the region’s electric transmission grid. It’s happening on a windblown patch of riverfront…
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“Hackerspaces" are popping up all over the Northwest. These aren't dens of computer infiltrators but rather community workshops for tinkering, machine…
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A fire that started Saturday morning near Wenatchee, Wash., has now burned more than 60 square miles in rugged terrain. The fire has burned five homes and…
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This week federal officials roll out a series of public meetings around what to do about radioactive materials that are near the Columbia River. This area…
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A long delayed experiment to demonstrate how a global warming gas can be locked up forever deep underground has finally started. Technicians working with
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Federal agencies have expanded how much of the Northwest they think is suffering from drought. Updated figures released Thursday shows 88 percent of…
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North America’s blueberry crop is so substantial this year that farmers say prices are dropping. That’s after about a decade of rapid expansion of new…