Recent warm, dry weather kicked up tree pollen in the Willamette Valley [[or in the northwest]] . As KLCC’s Karen Richards reports, what you react to may be linked to your upbringing.

[Tacoma leaders push back on possible light rail cut 4/6/2026 Nate Sanford/Amy Jeffries]

ERROR CORRECTION: We have a correction to a story... An earlier report on Sound Transit said the agency was facing a $34 million budget shortfall... it is actually a $34 *billion* shortfall.

The Tacoma City Council is urging Sound Transit not to abandon a planned light rail extension to the Tacoma Dome.

[Tacoma leaders push back on possible light rail cut 4/6/2026 Nate Sanford/Amy Jeffries]

The Tacoma City Council is urging Sound Transit not to abandon a planned light rail extension to the Tacoma Dome.

[Tacoma leaders push back on possible light rail cut

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4/6/2026 Nate Sanford/Amy Jeffries]

ERROR CORRECTION: We have a correction to a story... An earlier report on Sound Transit said the agency was facing a $34 million budget shortfall... it is actually a $34 *billion* shortfall.

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A planned light rail extension to the Tacoma Dome could be on the chopping block as Sound Transit grapples with a $34 billion budget shortfall… But Tacoma leaders say they’ve been waiting a long time, and aren’t ready to give it up.

KNKX Murrow News Fellow Nate Sanford has more

[Tacoma leaders push back on possible light rail cut

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4/6/2026 Nate Sanford/Amy Jeffries]

A planned light rail extension to the Tacoma Dome could be on the chopping block as Sound Transit grapples with a $34 billion budget shortfall… But Tacoma leaders say they’ve been waiting a long time, and aren’t ready to give it up.

KNKX Murrow News Fellow Nate Sanford has more

A federal appeals court will hear arguments tomorrow/Tuesday (at 10a PST) about whether it's lawful to limit federal officers from using crowd control weapons outside the Portland ICE building. Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson reports.

Eugene Airport is receiving more than $6 million in federal money to help it expand and improve one of its concourses. KLCC’s Zac Ziegler reports:

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Two people are dead, one person is hospitalized and a fourth person is still missing after crashing into the Willamette ((wil-LAMM-met)) River in downtown Portland early this morning ((MON)).

LEDE: Washington’s Supreme Court will take up a constitutional challenge to a portion of the state’s new income tax on high earners.

State Government Reporter Sarah Mizes-Tan [MYE-zehz tan] has more.

Voters in Lane County will decide this May whether to pass an initiative that supporters call the Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights