Anna King
Podcasts
Stories
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Tariffs stopped many Washington apples from reaching India. Lawmakers want to fix that
The Northwest ships many of its apple harvest to India, including boat loads of red delicious apples.
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Cody Easterday is in the federal pen after one of the largest cattle swindles in U.S. history
Northwest rancher Cody Easterday recently turned himself in to a minimum security prison camp at Lompoc just south of Santa Maria, California. Easterday carried out one of the largest cattle swindles in U.S. history, from near Pasco, in Washington state.
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New podcast uncovers a true story of family, fraud, land and power in the American West
Kim Malcolm talks with Anna King, host of the new podcast Ghost Herd.
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In 'Ghost Herd,' greed and deception illuminate the fight for land ownership in the rural West
A new podcast from Northwest Public Radio and KUOW takes listeners to the Columbia Basin, where the value of dirt is illuminated by one family's story of deception and greed.
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Part 1: The Empire Builders
Meet the Easterdays – ranching royalty rooted in the Columbia Basin in southeast Washington state. But behind the well-known family name hides a dark secret, concealed in spreadsheets and bum invoices, that’s eating away at their vast empire.
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Earliest stone point artifacts found in Idaho, tribes say deep knowledge could help Americans' survi
Researchers with Oregon State University in coordination with the Nez Perce tribe have found stone artifacts that date back about 3,000 years earlier than other finds in the Americas. Fourteen projectile points found along Idaho’s Salmon River - some just fragments - are delicately flaked, razor sharp and made of various stones.
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Mapping the spaghetti highways of the West
Matthew Kauffman, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey, has been working along with many tribal and state officials over the last several years to create new maps that chart wildlife. They want to see where the deer, elk, and pronghorn highways are that run throughout America’s Western states.
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A 3.5-million-pound problem: More than a million chickens near Pasco have bird flu
More than a million chickens at a farm in Franklin County, Washington, are set to be destroyed because of bird flu. Officials are now deliberating on how to transport, bury, compost or incinerate the birds.
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THEM APPLES: Prices up, but Northwest apple growers aren’t grinning
Northwest apples will be fewer, smaller and more expensive this year. Blame a cold spring, a challenging growing season. Farmers say they’re struggling under that darn inflation of everything.
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Introducing Ghost Herd, coming January 10
It started as an American success story. The Easterday family took a couple hundred acres of farmland in Eastern Washington and grew it into a farming and ranching empire worth millions. Then, it all came crashing down.