Opponents of a transportation funding package passed by Oregon lawmakers last month say Gov. Tina Kotek is delaying their efforts to refer it to voters.

A King County official who was arrested earlier this year is apologizing – and saying he won’t run for reelection. KUOW’s Scott Greenstone has more.

Two weeks after Oregon lawmakers passed a transportation bill pushed by Governor Tina Kotek, the governor has not signed it into law. As Dirk VanderHart reports, there’s a strategic reason for the delay.

For 7 years, Eduardo Chavez has been on film tours promoting his film “Hailing Cesar,” which chronicles his journey trying to understand his grandfather, labor leader Cesar Chavez.

But after visiting an elementary school in southern Idaho, his journey is now not only on screen but on colorful pages.

Members of tribal nations that live along the Skagit River basin are celebrating along with Puget Sound Energy and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. They’ve tallied a record run of sockeye salmon returning through the river system this year – of nearly 92-thousand fish.

Nearly 92-thousand sockeye salmon returned to the Baker River System this year. That’s an historic milestone for nearby tribes, state wildlife officials and the hydroelectric utility that caused the decline – and helped bring the fish back.

KNKX environment reporter Bellamy Pailthorp has the story.

The federal government is still shut down. That’s threatening national programs like WIC [WICK]. It provides food and nutrition help to mothers, infants and children. N-W-P-B’s Lauren Paterson reports on how a local WIC [WICK] program is at risk.

Social media and online influencers are playing a bigger role in national politics — and in Seattle’s mayoral race. Progressive organizer Katie Wilson has embraced the medium….and came in nearly 10 points ahead of incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell in the August primary.

KNKX Murrow News Fellow Nate Sanford has more

[HOST TAG:] Nate Sanford is a Murrow News Fellow for KNKX, in partnership with Cascade PBS.

White Bird Clinic has agreed to settle with a former CAHOOTS worker who sued them, claiming she’d been retaliated against.

LEDE: Washington is the top Apple-producing state in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But as NWPB’s Renee Diaz reports, wildfire smoke could affect the harvest in one of the states largest apple growing regions. :13]]