Anna King
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Environment
Farmers Are Feeling The Pain As Drought Spreads In The Northwest
It's as dry as it's been in a century in parts of Washington and Oregon. Some farmers are watching their crops fail, while others are selling cattle because they don't have the grass to feed it.
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Health
A long haul: Reporter's snail-slow recovery after Covid-19
Sometimes I feel as low as this cold-early-morning snail on the Richland river path. June 3 marks a year since COVID-19 blasted through my immune system. I have never figured out how I got it. And my recovery has come in fits and starts. But mostly it’s just been incredibly, snail-slow.
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Environment
'Somber harvest': Crops may fail, cattle sold as the NW descends into drought
Nicole Berg wades into her stunted wheat field. It’s so short and sparse, she doesn’t think the combine can even reach the wheat without eating rocks. “Combines don’t like dirt and rocks,” Berg says. “They get indigestion.” Berg is a dryland wheat farmer in the sweeping Horse Heaven Hills of south-eastern Washington. She shows off one head of half-turned golden wheat amid a sea of them. Besides being too short, the plant’s kernels didn’t fill out properly.
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You can still die of dysentery but Oregon Trail reboot aims for more accurate portrayals
Jazz Halfmoon remembers playing the educational video game Oregon Trail as a reward for doing well in her Oregon grade school class.
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Crime
As Easterday Family Property Is Auctioned, Giant Buyers Attracted To Water-Rich Deal
Redtail hawks glide off telephone poles sailing above verdant fields that scoop downward along a basalt slope to the bending Columbia River. This unique...
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Health
It's Complicated: why some Northwest Latinx residents and farmworkers hesitate on Covid Vaccine
Vanessa Delgado’s dad didn’t want to take a whole unpaid day off of work to get a vaccine appointment. She’s working on her doctorate in Irvine, Calif.,...
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Mysterious Northwest Cattle Mutilations Crop Up Again, This Time With 7 Dead In Central Oregon
You can drive an hour on the highway and still be in central Oregon’s Crook County. Perhaps, then, it’s easier to understand why patrolling the vast...
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Crime
Alleged Massive-Scale Easterday Heist Is The New Brand Of Cattle Rustling
Cattle rustling is as old as the West. And a recent $225 million alleged cattle heist involving Easterday Ranches and Tyson Fresh Meats in Washington is one of the largest cases in U.S. history. And that case, like others nowadays, happened on paper, not on the range.
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Short On Cattle, Long On Losses: Easterday Had An Alleged Habit Of Big-Money Trading
The starting point of a Northwest-based saga of alleged invented cattle , a multi-million dollar lawsuit and two bankruptcies may lie in a short...
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Easterday-Tyson Saga Shows: Counting 200K Cattle Isn’t Easy, Especially When They Might Not Exist
Just how do you miss 200,000 phantom cattle over several years? That’s what some people in the Columbia Basin cattle-feeding industry are wondering in...