Immigration authorities are holding a Gresham family who sought medical attention for their 7-year-old. As OPB’s Holly Bartholomew reports, agents arrested them before she could get care.

Host lead-in: When the National Labor Relations Act made it possible for workers to unionize, it excluded certain jobs, like farmworkers. Now, some Washington lawmakers want to give them a legal path to collective bargaining. N-W-P-B’s Lauren Gallup reports.

There’s a push to make collective bargaining legal for farmworkers in Washington.

Lucy Madrigal [ma·dree·gall] is the daughter of farmworkers —

OHSU’s board of directors held a special meeting this week to review a report on what it would take to close the Oregon national primate research center. Amelia Templeton reports.

Oregon starts processing 2025 tax returns today (Monday Jan. 26) -- a troubling proposition for many.

In fact, about 15 percent of Oregonians don’t file every year because they’re worried about a big tax bill or intimidated by the long, complicated tax forms.

But as Kristian Foden-Vencil reports, those people often miss out on significant refunds and there are several non-profits anxious to help everyone file.

Medford is reversing course just three years after installing dedicated bike lanes downtown. Jefferson Public Radio's Roman Battaglia (buh-TALLY-uh) reports the city council was split on the decision.

The Seattle city attorney has charged a 24-year-old man with assault, alleging that he used a Lime bike to approach women and slap or grab their rear ends in multiple incidents last spring.

Washington’s governor is requesting more than 20 million dollars from the federal government for disaster relief after December’s record flooding.

The State Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday [THURS] about the constitutionality of a citizen initiative that sought to preserve access to natural gas. Voters narrowly approved the measure in 20-24. But environmental groups sued and a Superior Court overturned it.

Washington’s Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday [THURS] in a case that could have broad implications for the initiative process and generally how state laws are written.