Could cost of BC's Trans Mountain pipeline cost taxpayers $20 billion? Salem's drinking water is contaminated, Seattle tech worker immigrants stuck in green card backlog, WA state park eroding away, is "Prospect" Cascadia's first sci-fi film? And humorous fiction from Spokane's Jess Walter.
Canada to purchase BC's Trans Mountain pipeline, wildfires burn in eastern BC, is WA ready for universal health care?, the fastest growing cities in Oregon, BC Indigenous architects to represent Canada at Venice Biennale, and poetry by Seattle-based poet Gabrielle Bates.
A poet and scientist listen to the bees, how Seattle can get transit right, tribe sue managers of Klamath dams, BC govt wants to boost primary care, eagles and otters cooperate on nest-building, a profile of unconventional brass band The Westerlies, and fiction by BC author Sarah Jade Mcpherson.
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.
