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A new three-day film fest that features stories about Mexico City's punk scene starts today [THURS]. It’s being held at the Egyptian Theater in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

More from KNKX reporter Freddy Monares.

[Latinx film fest temporarily reopens Egyptian Theater for debut

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An immigration attorney is alleging that a recent arrest in Seattle was unlawful. That’s after ICE agents arrested a man at the Seattle immigration court after his asylum hearing. KUOW’s Gustavo Sagrero has more.

For the fourth year in a row, Washington’s Department of Ecology has issued a drought declaration.

The man who killed Sharon Schuman in a Eugene car crash last year was sentenced today [Wednesday] to more than six years in prison.

PacifiCorp [[Pacific CorP]] has won a notable victory in a lawsuit tying it to four Oregon wildfires. OPB's April Ehrlich reports.

LEDE: The heads of several Washington state agencies gathered near Yakima on Wednesday morning [April 8] to declare a statewide drought. N-W-P-B’s senior correspondent Anna King has more.

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Lane County’s efforts to build a food waste diversion facility south of Eugene were rejected for a second time today [Wednesday]. The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a previous denial of a required zoning change.

KLCC’s Rebecca Hansen-White reports.

Today is Equal Pay Day for Asian American women. It marks how far into 2026 those women have to work to earn the same as white men did in 2025. Black, Latina and Indigenous women’s equal pay days are much further into the year.