For years, families in Pomeroy have driven at least 30 minutes to find childcare. Now, a community-led effort is working to bring those services back to town. For nearly two years, nonprofit ...

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 ...

Washington state lawmakers begin a 60-day session today, in which a fiscal reckoning, flood recovery, and their own reelections loom large. They departed Olympia last spring, fingers crossed that a ...

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 ...

For more on the Justice Department investigation, we're joined by David Wessel. He's the director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution. Good morning, David. DAVID WESSEL: Good morning.

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 ...