The contract is up for renewal for a private company that runs the Tacoma ICE detention center. The current contract expires this week and lawmakers are pushing for details. KUOW’s GS reports.

[VOICER: WA, ID, OR round out the top 10 on climate-health scorecard

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HOST LEDE: A new report ranks states on how climate change might affect your healthcare. The rankings say Washington, Oregon and Idaho will fare better than most. [N-W-P-B’s senior environmental correspondent Courtney Flatt has more.] [SOQ 0:44]

OPTIONAL HOST OUT: Out of all the states and Washington D.C., Maine came in as the least at-risk. West Virginia is at the bottom of the list.

As KNKX has reported, Kroger is closing several grocery stores in our region. One of them is in Seattle's Lake City neighborhood.

This has caused community advocates there to raise the alarm that the neighborhood is transforming into a food desert.

KNKX reporter Mitch Borden takes us there.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and First Lady Aimee Kotek Wilson will take their first trip overseas at the end of October for a trade mission. Lauren Dake reports.

Springfield-based Roseburg Forest Products has closed a Douglas County plant and laid off more than 100 workers. KLCC’s Zac Ziegler reports:

The federal government is investing more than 35-million dollars in five Inland Northwest wildfire fuels reduction programs.

A group of young women in a youth detention center in Albany have been rehearsing for a unique dance performance. KLCC’s Karen Richards visited and has this report.

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The public is now being excluded from timber auctions for federal forestland in Oregon and Washington.

An environmental activist in Southern Oregon says a new policy excluding the public from federal timber auctions hurts accountability and transparency. Jefferson Public Radio's Roman Battaglia (buh-TALLY-uh) reports.

The Seattle Mariner baseball club last night accomplished something it hasn’t done in nearly a quarter century. In the process, catcher Cal Raleigh [RAWL-ee] achieved something that’s only been done by a handful of players.