BC government has a $1.5 billion surplus, troubled start for a program for formerly incarcerated black women in Portland, where have all the mountain caribou gone?, an Indigenous-owned winery in BC's Okanagan Valley, and poetry by Alex Gallo-Brown.

BC government has a $1.5 billion surplus, troubled start for a program for formerly incarcerated black women in Portland, where have all the mountain caribou gone?, an Indigenous-owned winery in BC's Okanagan Valley, and poetry by Alex Gallo-Brown.
Hike Washington's Mount McCausland + man who sought sanctuary in Seattle for over a year detained by ICE, can cities in WA charge an income tax?, slow progress at a Native American boarding school in OR, eagles take a video selfie on Haida Gwaii, and a poem translated by Seattle's Don Mee Choi.
Big thumbs up for a high-speed rail network across Cascadia, US company pleads guilty in BC oil spill case, conservative media buys up local papers in southern OR, surprising support in Idaho for dam removal, Ashli Akins on keeping hopeful as an activist and a review of Ian Williams' new novel.
California quakes a wake-up call for Cascadia, working to counter WA's increasing youth suicide rate, Canadian Intelligence spied on BC pipeline protesters, the risks to Indigenous women from "man camps," Portland's "Drammys" awarded, & poetry by Elisa Chavez.
BC will have a new national park, & Cascadia Magazine has a hike you can take there. + Oregon is ignoring tsunami risk, Seattle's (sort of) plan for homeless living in vehicles, WA poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna on the trauma of immigration, and a review of a new collection of writing about Salish Sea islands.
Paul Lask wins the first award for journalism at Cascadia Magazine, Vancouver is getting even more expensive, harder WA sales tax exemptions for OR residents, a BC First Nation fights a new mine, an exhibit of forgeries in Vancouver, and an essay by Amy Fung.
Cascadia Magazine investigation into US Navy pollution in Puget Sound + harsh realities of Seattle's aging homeless population, protecting a deepwater ecosystem off Vancouver Island, Justin Huertas' great new musical: The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion & poetry by Erika Brumett.
Outdoor movie nights across Cascadia, chaos in the Oregon legislature, preparing for endless summer smoky skies, the importance of naming orcas, a crisis in WA over nursing home care? And an interview with commercial angler and poet Sierra Golden.
A great hike near Mt. St. Helens + BC's flawed caribou protection plan, should seawalls protect WA coast from climate change?, reconciliation pole raised in Vancouver, activists want Portland transit to be free, the 10 top bands in PDX right now & a personal essay by Raine Lee.
Listen to the Defining Cascadia panel discussion on the UpZone podcast, OR GOP flees legislature again, debating a ban on homeless camping in Langley, BC, goats to help reduce wildfire risk, a preview of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, & an essay by Shazia Hafiz Ramji.