Students and families in Seattle will have to wait another year for the roll out of free, universal school meals.

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Fire crews continue to battle the state’s largest blaze.

The Kaiser Canyon Fire in Northeastern Washington has already burned almost 80-thousand acres and is still uncontained.

Most of those acres are on the Colville [COLL-ville] Reservation and it has displaced more than one-thousand people from the area, including the entire town of Nespelem [neh-SPEE-lum].

[Meanwhile] The Red Cross is among the agencies moving quickly to set up shelters and recruit volunteers to serve people who’ve been evacuated. As KNKX’s Gary Davis reports, this fire season has relief coordinators especially worried.

TAG: If you’re interested in volunteering with the Red Cross, you can learn more at their website, red-cross-dot-org. [redcross.org]

This year’s wildfire season is stretching aid resources across the region.

The City of Coos Bay is fronting roughly $200,000 to remove an uninsured fishing boat that sank beneath a city dock earlier this month.

An unmanned fishing boat sank earlier this month [07/02] while moored at the city dock in Coos Bay. JPR’s Theo Greenly reports the boat was uninsured, leaving the city on the hook for as much as $200,000 for an emergency cleanup.

“Self-care” and “career opportunities” might not be phrases that come to mind when you think about jail or prison.

But for a group of incarcerated girls at the Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility in Albany, a natural hair care program is providing both.

KLCC’s Natalie Pate reports.

Southern Oregon University has walked back some of the academic cuts it made a month ago in an effort to slash one fifth of its budget.

Some positions at Southern Oregon University that were previously slated to be cut have been restored, in the latest version of a financial plan meant to prevent the institution’s closure.

The FBI partnered with the Seattle Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to prevent violent crime during the World Cup.

With three months left until Election Day, the field of candidates for Oregon governor remains unclear. As Dirk VanderHart reports, many of the state’s minor parties are still deciding whether to enter the contest.