WA governor's $1.1 billion orca recovery plan, 75 percent of BC people want to ban fish farms, OR looks to curtail death penalty, tolls move forward on Portland freeways, local holiday shopping beyond Amazon, Portland's Tin House magazine ceases publication, and fiction by Joe Galván.
Portland to spend some of tourism tax on homeless services, thousands of OR residents missing health coverage, WA to replace aging mental health facility, Site C dam could imperil national park, Dark Horse Entertainment producing comics & movies for 30 years and a prose poem by Chelene Knight.
Meet Rachel Rose, Cascadia Magazine's poetry editor, Chelene Knight wins Vancouver Book Award, if Portland rezoned, rents would decline, fracking halted after BC earthquakes, homeless in high school near Seattle, Miranda Schmidt on salmon homecoming, and poetry by Cedar Sigo.
Bookish events across Cascadia next week, Cascadia apple exports plummet in Trump's trade war, ICE raids taking a toll on Yakima families, the toxic legacy of BC coal mines, Seattle police accountability in question, the untold stories of Wild Wild Country, and an essay on poet WS Merwin by Michael Wiegers.
WA supreme court rules in favor of safe injection, Vancouver passes renter protections, blocking a BC gas pipeline, Trump threatens Oregon sage grouse, and poetry by Dujie Tahat.
Hike in Portland's Forest Park, BC announces ambitious climate plan, Portland mayor Ted Wheeler is fed up with his job, court challenge to Idaho Medicaid expansion, Seattle gets an NHL team, WA poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna's letter to asylum seekers & fiction by Richard Chiem.
Single-family zoning driving up rents in Seattle, will Oregon legalize psychedelic mushrooms?, half of BC's chinook salmon runs endangered, assaults on the rise in WA mental facility, Seattle Symphony plays in prison, and a new play, "Cop Out" looks at the police perspective on racial issues in Portland.
Major earthquake hits Anchorage as Cascadia prepares for bigger quakes, Vancouver empty homes tax nets $38 million, Canada failing climate goals thanks to BC pipeline, Portland miffed its not the most sinful city in US, Timbers head to MLS final, and an essay by Oregon writer Tara K. Shepersky.
Why Seattle does not love Dave Matthews, OR state budget would boost education by $2 billion, Seattle transgender activist seeks asylum in Sweden, WA tribes join First Nations in opposing BC pipeline, Olympia ends apartment bans, and "The Stage Diver," short fiction by Kevin Sampsell.
Feds toss out wilderness deal in eastern WA, rents climb in Vancouver, BC First Nations in debt from wildfires, Vancouver's Hootsuite celebrates 10 years, support grows for Columbia River ferry, the mystery of eastern Oregon's yellow cedars, the troubled princes of 1990s Portland, and poetry by Floyd Skloot,
