There's a growing move to end what some call "the orphan tax". And stop states from taking benefit checks from children and youth in foster care.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of 2025 films that made a number of Best-of-the-Year lists: Josh Safdie’s "Marty Supreme" and Brazilian ...

Owen Henderson hosts Morning Edition for SPR News, but after he gets off the air each day, he's reporting stories with the rest of the team. Owen a 2023 graduate of the University of Illinois ...

A who’s who from Washington state business and Democratic politics on Thursday extolled the virtues of alternative jet fuel and said the state would strive to become the nation’s leading enabler of ...

Washington and Idaho legislators open their respective off-year sessions Monday in Olympia and Boise. Budgets will be top of mind in both statehouses as a slowing economy and pending federal tax cuts ...

The Omak Library has been part of NCW Libraries since 1961. NCW Libraries is an intercounty Rural Library District formed to serve Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant and Okanogan counties. The Omak City ...

A federal judge in Washington state on Friday permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a 2025 executive order that sought to require voters prove citizenship and that all ballots be ...

A rally attendee holds a sign in support of the 2019 Keep Washington Working Act, which prevents local police from collaborating with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, a protest outside Spokane ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Elliot Williams, a former U.S. deputy assistant attorney general, about the Trump administration's narrative around the fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an ICE agent.

Jennifer Ludden helps edit energy and environment stories for NPR's National Desk, working with NPR staffers and a team of public radio reporters across the country. They track the shift to clean ...

President Trump's White House ballroom plan had its first hearing in front of a planning commission Thursday. The latest details on the controversial project.

(Original Air Date January 11, 2026) Join Zan as she takes you through a collage of moody music for the season of snow and darkness with a SPOT on some cool jazz and a new cover release of Thin ...