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Microchips or microgreens? Oregon tweaks farm protection law
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoOregon is changing a half-century-old land-use law to make room for semiconductor development and...
Northwest swelters under 'uncomfortable' multiday heat wave
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoUnder the sweltering heat, Matthew Carr spent his lunch break in a fountain in downtown Portland,...
'A holy war on sprawl': States seek to shape new housing development by limiting local control
Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrom tent cities in the traffic circles of Washington, D.C to Los Angeles’s Skid Row, a crisis of...
California and Nevada may ban forced prison labor, servitude
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoLawmakers in Nevada and California are advancing legislation to remove “involuntary servitude” from...
Allergy season starts earlier now thanks to climate change
Yahoo News· 1 year agoA person uses a handkerchief while standing near a blossoming tree. (Getty Images) Getty...
From China to New York City, climate change is making drought conditions worse
Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs climate change makes droughts more frequent and severe, major population centers across the world...
For once-mild Seattle, extreme summer heat waves are the new normal
Yahoo News· 2 years agoJim Benvenga has lived in Seattle for almost 50 years, and until last week he never thought he...
Pandemic, culture wars revive 'school choice' policy push
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoNichole Mason first became concerned when she learned administrators at her children's public school...
New data shows COVID crime surge starting to recede. Can Republicans still rely on crime to counter...
Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn April 4, abortion rights won — and crime fears lost — in two Midwestern races symbolic of how the...
Finding safe haven in the climate change future: The Pacific Northwest
Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Pacific Northwest region has in recent years been forced to reckon with the misconception that...