Northwest Reports

After Evans' appearance at a Northwest Power and Conservation Council meeting, Venice Buhain and Knute Berger discuss his impact on Washington.

Dan Evans has been a force in Washington for decades.  

The public figure, now 98, has plenty of titles under his belt: Engineer. Washington governor. U.S. Senator.  

In this episode of Northwest Reports, host Maleeha Syed speaks with Cascade PBS associate news editor Venice Buhain about th...

Cascade PBS reporter Mai Hoang talks with the former state legislator about her newest gig, including key issues affecting the city's community members.

This week, Lisa Brown officially passed the 100-day mark in her new role as Spokane’s mayor. 

Brown started her term at the beginning of the year after defeating incumbent Nadine Woodward. She has worked in several different capacities over the years, including as a lawmaker in the...

We spoke with Cynthia Brothers, founder of the project that highlights disappearing institutions and cultures in the city, about losing public spaces.

Coffee shops. Churches. Gyms.   

These are just a few examples of what you might consider your “third place” – a spot you go outside of work and your home to hang out and connect.  

The concept of third places isn’t new, but it has seen renewed interest in recent years as we navigate...

Lizz Giordano takes us behind the scenes on how dozens of foreign Filipino fishermen wound up stranded on a boat in Grays Harbor.

A fishing company allegedly left two dozen Filipino men stranded at the Westport Marina for months last year, according to the latest reporting from the investigative team at Cascade PBS.  

The men were contracted with McAdam’s Fish, which decided to dock their boats in September amid a slow season. None...

The newspaper’s future was in question after founder Sandy Williams died. Reporter Mai Hoang talks about the push to get it up and running again.

For years Black readers in Eastern Washington could rely on The Black Lens, a Spokane-based newspaper, for community news.  

That changed in 2022, when founder Sandy Williams died in a floatplane crash. 

Suddenly the fate of the publication — which had already been on hiatus — was left ha...

The two, who met years ago through a peace organization, spoke about their lives before and after Oct. 7 at a Town Hall Seattle event on Friday.

All eyes have been on Gaza since October 7, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel that killed around 1,200 people. Since then, Israel has killed upward of 30,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.  

The war between Israel and Hamas has sparked global outrage, trig...

The environmental crisis has brought on anxiety, grief and a reluctance to have kids, says UW Bothell professor Jennifer Atkinson.   

It’s hard to miss the signs of climate change.   

The ocean’s heating, ice sheets are melting and – in places like Washington – wildfire seasons are getting longer.  

But climate change isn’t just impacting our landscape: It’s also affecting our mental health.  

In this episode of Crosscut Repo...

News editor Donna Blankinship interviewed Steve Hobbs about boosting voter confidence ahead of this year's elections.

Washington’s Secretary of State has a big year ahead.  

The 2024 election is already underway as Washington voters begin to cast their ballots in the presidential primary. Voters have until March 12 to choose among a handful of candidates, including Joe Biden and Donald Trump — the likely nominees for president.  

I...

Reporter Jadenne Radoc Cabahug shares the stories of Black Seattleites who are continuing to work for equity and police accountability.

In May 2020, amid a global pandemic, protests erupted around the United States following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.  

People marched to demand greater accountability from law enforcement across the country, including in Seattle, where protesters occupied several blocks of Cap...

A Bellingham tenant and a housing advocate explain how steep rent increases are hurting state residents, and how HB 2114 could help.

For many tenants across Washington, rent is too high – and it keeps climbing. Right now, landlords face no limit on when or how much they can raise rents.  

HB 2114 would cap rent and fee increases to 7 percent in a 12-month period and prevent landlords from raising rent at all in the first year of a ...

Reporter Brandon Block shares an example of how the state intercepts parental assistance to people who also receive TANF, or welfare.

In 2017, Amy Roark applied for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program after one of her exes stopped paying his child support.    

She began to receive money through the program, but as these funds started coming in, she stopped getting payments from her exes altogether.   

This wa...

June Guzman and Audrey Baedke offer housing and emotional support through the nonprofit Real Escape from the Sex Trade (REST).

The Seattle area is a known hub for sex trafficking. Some estimates suggest that more than two thousand people could be trafficked in the region every night. 

June Guzman manages the 24/7 hotline and emergency shelter for Real Escape from the Sex Trade, or REST. Audrey Baedke is director of programs at REST...

Reporter Mai Hoang talks about the ongoing fight to redraw majority-Latino legislative districts between Yakima and Pasco.

A yearslong debate over redistricting in Central Washington could close just in time for the 2024 election.  

Plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in January 2022 over the 15th Legislative District, arguing that its boundaries as drawn diluted Latino votes. In August, a U.S. District Court judge ruled in favor of those p...

Reporter Nimra Ahmad describes a day on the job with the city's experimental mental health crisis program staff.

Seattle is now dispatching mental health crisis responders on 911 calls – and reporter Nimra Ahmad got to watch them work in real time. 

In October, the city soft-launched the Community Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) team, made up of crisis responders who are dispatched with police as needed. This dual disp...

The governor spoke with Crosscut's Paris Jackson about mental health, climate change and the Huskies ... prior to their national championship game.

In November, voters will cast their ballots for someone to succeed Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington for more than a decade. 

Until then, Inslee has some key issues he wants to address. 

The governor sat down with Crosscut’s Paris Jackson in early January to discuss some of his pri...

The third episode of the investigative series co-produced with Crosscut focuses on one woman's experience with foster care and homelessness in WA. 

A few months ago, Crosscut collaborated with the nonprofit organization Youth Today to produce a three-part multimedia series on youth homelessness.  

Reporter Elizabeth Whitman and producer Sam Leeds investigated several pilot programs designed to support young people who’ve been invol...

Earlier this year, Crosscut reported on an Aberdeen park facing rising rents and cut services. Farah Eltohamy shares how the story has evolved.

Mobile home parks are often considered one of the most reliable forms of affordable housing. Some tenants in Washington beg to differ.  

This summer, Farah Eltohamy and Mai Hoang investigated allegations that one management company, Hurst & Son LLC, raised rents and fees while reducing ...

Taylor Swift shows and MLB All-Star Week brought business this summer, but the city center is still hurting. Reporter Josh Cohen offers some updates.

Downtown Seattle got plenty of visitors this year thanks to the MLB All-Star Game and concerts from big-name musicians like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.  

Events like these make Downtown feel like a far cry from the early days of COVID-19.  

Still, there are some post-pandemic challe...

But there still isn't a contract. Crosscut reporter Lizz Giordano updates us on employees’ unionizing efforts.

Unions have been flexing their muscles to advocate for workers’ rights across sectors from the auto industry to Hollywood.   

Coffee shops are no exception: Employees at more than 300 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize under Starbucks Workers United since December 2021, when a shop in Buffalo became the first t...