Northwest

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…

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…

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…

Northwest history is colliding with the need to upgrade the region’s electric transmission grid. It’s happening on a windblown patch of riverfront…

“Hackerspaces" are popping up all over the Northwest. These aren't dens of computer infiltrators but rather community workshops for tinkering, machine…

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…

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…

A long delayed experiment to demonstrate how a global warming gas can be locked up forever deep underground has finally started. Technicians working with

Federal agencies have expanded how much of the Northwest they think is suffering from drought. Updated figures released Thursday shows 88 percent of…

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…