Anna King
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Mild Northwest fire season could blow up in late summer as fuels dry out
You might have noticed some smoky skies lately, particularly in the Inland Northwest from the Williams Flats Fire near Grand Coulee Dam.
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Feds Say Hanford’s PUREX Plant Is Degrading, Needs Stabilizing Soon
A new federal report says that a massive building at the Hanford Nuclear Site is worse off than managers thought. The so-called PUREX -- Plutonium...
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Cracking The Tab On Summer: Northwest Wine Brands Increasingly Pour Into Cans
Several years ago, Union Wine Company of Tualatin, Oregon, put some wine in cans for a food festival. It was such a hit, says owner Ryan Harms, he...
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Washington Supreme Court Upholds Ruling Against Florist Who Denied To Serve Same-Sex Wedding
In a unanimous decision Thursday, the Washington State Supreme Court upheld its earlier decision against a Richland florist that refused to sell wedding...
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Worker At Hanford Contaminated In Lab Scheduled For Demolition
A worker at the Hanford Nuclear Site was recently contaminated with a speck of radioactive material after work in a lab building scheduled for...
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Federal Report Says Hanford’s Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant Is Built With Questionable Parts
Like the crumbling gasket in your kitchen faucet, sometimes even small parts can mean a lot. Now, federal watchdogs are looking into all types of parts...
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Northwest's Only Nuclear Plant Dinged For Low-Level Infraction In Federal Inspection
Have you ever ignored your car’s oil change a bit too long? That’s essentially what happened at the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant this...
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The complicated relationship between temporary and local farmworkers in Mattawa, WA
A report from central Washington state.
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They came to Washington to work, then they got the mumps
We roll up a long, gravel road about 20 miles outside Mattawa, a small farming town in central Washington state. We’re on the King Fuji Ranch where there's four suspected cases of the mumps and over a 100 exposed workers quarantined.
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Federal Government Says 2nd Hanford Tunnel With Radioactive Waste All Sealed Up
The project to stabilize and seal a large tunnel of radioactive waste has been completed at the Hanford nuclear reservation, according to the U.S....