Owens Corning will close its facility in Prineville, laying off all 184 employees before the end of the year. KLCC’s Zac Ziegler reports:

Oregon and Washington are home to more than 14,000 immigrants from Iran. That’s according to the Migration Policy Institute.

As you’ve heard this week, a powerful new telescope perched on a mountain in Chile is about to begin mapping the night sky.

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released. Scientists at the University of Washington played a key role in getting the observatory up and running.

KNKX reporter Mitch Borden has the story.

Oregon has confirmed its first measles case of the year ((2025)).

Three years ago, the Supreme Court repealed the federal right to abortion. Now, possible cuts to Medicaid funding for clinics that provide abortion could affect Washington state. N-W-P-B’s Rachel Sun reports.

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A bill that aimed to boost Oregon newsrooms by charging big tech companies appears to have died in the Legislature. OPB’s Bryce Dole reports.

Spring Chinook [SHIN-ook] salmon went extinct from the Walla Walla River in the nineteen-twenties. But the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla [yoo-muh-TILL-uh] Indian Reservation have been working for decades to bring them back. They’ve been seeing progress — so much, they hope to have a harvest in coming years. N-W-P-B’s Susan Shain visited the river with Jerimiah Bonifer [jair-ih-MY-uh BAHN-if-ur], the tribes’ fisheries program manager.(:19)

More than nine-hundred spring Chinook [SHIN-ook] salmon returned to the Walla Walla River this year. That’s more than ten times the number in 20-23.

Planned Parenthood says about half of its Washington patients are Medicaid recipients.

Amid a shaky ceasefire between Iran and Israel, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee says it remains unclear how much damage Saturday's U-S airstrike did to Iran's nuclear sites.