Court rejects challenge to BC pipeline project, a history of how Seattle zoning killed affordable housing, OR citizens may get a tax refund, Cascadia farmers await a federal farm bill, how an Idaho schizophrenic man fell through the cracks, and the story of Vanport, an Oregon city wiped out by floods in 1948.
Plan your Memorial Day getaway, will KinderMorgan walk away from BC pipeline?, companies to test self-driving cars in Cascadia, dangerous insects thrive in climate change, Amazon pushes spy software to police, how basketball became part of BC First Nations culture, and short fiction by Darla Mottram.
OR legislature passes business tax cut, BC sues Alberta over threat to shut off oil, WA progressive women run for office, OR timber industry's huge impact on climate, what's next for Seattle as a UNESCO city of literature, and Charles Demer's comic novel about Vancouver's high housing costs.
UpZones podcast interviews Andrew Engelson, teenager owes $36 million for Oregon wildfire, Seattle's costly bike lanes, cougar attack leaves one mountain biker dead, Puyallup Tribe welcome first salmon, a "accidental cartoonist" fights racism against Sikhs, and Kim Stafford is new OR poet laureate.
Happy Cascadia Day! Flooding continues in eastern BC & WA, nobody likes Kate Brown's business tax cut, OR businesses compete to become the Starbucks of pot, the gentrification of Tacoma, The Blob killed Cassin's auklets, and BC First Nations writer Terese Mailhot on facing racism.
Cascadia Magazine's Almost Summer Reading event is June 1! Idaho could elect first Native American governor, eastern WA dam may fail, BC fish farm company wants "no go" zone, Christie Charles: Vancouver's first Indigenous poet laureate, & and an interview with Seattle author Nicola Griffith.
Seattle passes business tax to help homeless, flooding hits eastern BC & WA, Ian Campbell, chief of Squamish Nation, to run for Vancouver mayor, the activist who unionized Burgerville, an interview with Portland still-life painter Sherrie Wolf, and poetry by Seattle's Quenton Baker.
When home is a parking spot, Seattle moves forward on "head tax" for housing & homeless services, Portland delays on earthquake retrofits, Vancouver's high overdose death rate, taking the Sounders-Timbers rivalry to new levels, how moss can help prison inmates, and fiction by Spokane's Sharma Shields.
Oregon and Seattle battle over new taxes, BC residents concerned about housing affordability, Chinook tribe fights in court for federal recognition, a Cascadia no-hitter for the Seattle Mariners, an artist who forages for materials in the Salish Sea, and a poem at The Capilano Review by Ian Williams.
Spokane outlaws homelessness, BC lowers its greenhouse gas reduction targets, WA tribe on Puget Sound confronts opioid crisis, new Portland podcast on racial equity in the cannabis industry, farmed salmon spread disease to wild Chinook, and new music from Vancouver band The Long War.
