Seattle officials have reached a new three-year contract with the city’s police officers’ guild.

It will expand a narrow pilot program of unarmed crisis responders, doubling their numbers, and allowing them to go to low-risk calls WITHOUT a police escort.

Oregon cities could more easily clear homeless camps, under a ballot measure proposal backed by a prominent business group. Dirk VanderHart reports.

Oregon is the first state in the nation to be considered ‘Accessibility Verified’ by a non-profit for travelers with disabilities.

Kristian Foden-Vencil talked to a few tourists to find out why.

Grants Pass has chosen a group for a $1.2 million grant to address homelessness.

Grants Pass is moving forward with giving a $1.2 million grant to a new organization called Pathways to Stability.

There’s a new effort afoot to pull eastern and rural Washington away from the progressive political pull of the Puget Sound region.

People in the U-S are predicted to spend a record thirteen-billion dollars on Halloween this year. Up a billion-and-a-half from last year, according to the National Retail Federation. N-W-P-B’s Lauren Paterson tells us what the data shows about spending during spooky season.

In 2005, about half of people surveyed by the National Retail Federation said they planned to celebrate Halloween. This year, it’s 73 percent of people.

The driverless taxi company, Waymo, is testing its autonomous vehicles – or AVs -- in Seattle and Bellevue – with human drivers *behind* the wheel.

If you see a white car with black sensors driving around, it’s probably part of a recently launched Waymo [WAY-moe] test fleet.