This weekend (10/31-11/2) on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, volunteers will search for 71-year-old Wesley Dixon Jones, a tribal elder who’s been missing since October 5th. As KLCC’s Brian Bull reports, the search team is testing a device that the coordinator says could be a “game changer.”

It’s been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools across the country. Remote learning has had a lasting impact on millions of students. The effects are even more pronounced in Oregon, where students were among the last to return in person.

Oregon Public Broadcasting's Natalie Pate went into one school in Yamhill County to check on two key groups of students: fifth-graders and kindergarteners.

Thousands of Indigenous people are among those who will lose SNAP food benefits if the government shutdown continues. The Mountain West News Bureau’s Daniel Spaulding reports that tribal officials are concerned about cuts to programs that were already stretched thin.

A group of Amazon employees has circulated an open letter calling for the company to be more responsible in pushing the use of artificial intelligence in their workplace.

Ambulances, fire trucks, tugboats and streetsweepers often run on diesel engines.The exhaust from diesel can cause health problems like asthma and cancer. N-W-P-B’s Lauren Paterson tells us about a new grant program in Washington state to switch out those engines for electric ones.

Engines that often run on diesel like fire trucks and street sweepers put out a lot of pollution. A new 25-million dollar grant from Washington State’s Department of Ecology is trying to get diesel engines switched out for electric vehicles.

Host Intro: Federal lawmakers are currently facing off over extending health subsidies that drive down the cost of Affordable Care Act insurance.

Some tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year and without them, tens of thousands in Washington state could lose their health insurance.

KNKX reporter Mitch Borden takes a look at who may still be able to qualify for help on Washington Health Plan Finder.

Host Tag: Washington Health Plan Finder's website will be unavailable on Friday as staff prepare for open enrollment beginning on Saturday.

Members of the Oregon National Guard under President Trump’s authority were deployed to a federal immigration facility in Portland earlier this month, despite a judge’s order.

Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson reports.

An animal found only on the Olympic Peninsula is now the subject of a federal lawsuit.

Environmentalists are suing the Trump administration to protect the Olympic marmot as an endangered species.

KUOW’s John Ryan reports.

Funding for some Head Start early-learning programs will expire in Washington state starting Saturday. As OPB's Erik Neumann reports, it’s the latest casualty of the federal shutdown.