South Lane County Fire and Rescue is cutting back on its ambulance services after the failure of its recent levy.

Many renters in Seattle pay a variety of fees on top of rent. Now city officials want to reign them in. KUOW’s Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reports

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities is doing a special review of Lane Community College’s accreditation status.

KLCC’s Natalie Pate reports.

A joint team of federal and Washington State investigators looking into the deadly implosion at a Longview mill are transitioning out of emergency operations.

Almost all of Washington and Oregon are experiencing higher-than-usual fire danger right now.

Parts of north and central Idaho and western Montana received more rain than usual in June and early July.

Instead of watching fireworks to commemorate America's 250th birthday this past weekend, about 400 people went on a pilgrimage to the site of a former camp where Japanese-Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Jefferson Public Radio's Roman Battaglia (buh-TALLY-uh) shares their story.

[WRAP] Fewer sockeye are returning to the Upper Columbia. Washington closed its fishery to protect the salmon.

[070826_CF_SockeyeNumbers_WRAP 07/08/26 Wrap Courtney Flatt/AW ERT: 0:49]

LEDE: Drastically fewer sockeye are returning to the Upper Columbia than expected. That’s why Washington isn’t allowing sockeye fishing this season there. [N-W-P-B’s senior environmental correspondent Courtney Flatt explains.]

[CC] Fewer sockeye are returning to the Upper Columbia. Washington closed its fishery to protect the salmon.

[070826_CF_SockeyeNumbers_CC 07/08/26 CC Courtney Flatt/AW ERT: 0:42]

There are much fewer sockeye swimming past Bonneville [BON-uh-ville] Dam this season than biologists expected. About 71 percent fewer fish. With counts that low, Washington didn’t open its sockeye fishery in the Upper Columbia River.

Many pear farmers in the Northwest say they’re going into deep debt, or are getting out of the business. That’s concerning given that 87-percent of all fresh U.S. pears come from the Northwest [according to the Pear Bureau Northwest].

N-W-P-B’s Senior Correspondent Anna King reports.