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Editor’s Note: Anna King knew John Zachara, he was a friend and colleague of her husband at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.  John Zachara was a

Anna King Anna King calls Richland, Washington home and loves unearthing great stories about people in the Northwest. She reports for the Northwest News Network from a studio at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. She covers the Mid-Columbia region, from nuclear reactors to Mexican rodeos. The South Sound was her girlhood backyard and she knows its rocky beaches, mountain trails and cities well. She left the west side to attend Washington State University and went abroad to study language ...

As drought in the Western U.S. deepens, farmers are feeling the pain. Some are watching their crops fail, while others are selling cattle because they don't have the grass to feed it.

Anna King calls Richland, Washington home and loves unearthing great stories about people in the Northwest. She reports for the Northwest News Network from a studio at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. She covers the Mid-Columbia region, from nuclear reactors to Mexican rodeos.

Farmers Are Feeling The Pain As Drought Spreads In The Northwest Nicole Bergs stunted wheat field is so short and sparse she doesnt think the combine can even reach the wheat without, as she puts it, eating rocks. "Combines dont like dirt and rocks," Berg says, standing amid the damaged rows. "They get indigestion." Berg is a dryland wheat farmer in the sweeping Horse Heaven Hills of southeastern Washington state. She shows off one head of half-turned golden wheat amid a sea of them. Besides ...

Anna King calls Richland, Washington home and loves unearthing great stories about people in the Northwest. She reports for the Northwest News Network from

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 .

It’s bone dry from Spokane, near the Washington-Idaho border, clear to Harney County in Southern Oregon, with triple digit temps on the way even later this week for some parts of the Northwest.

Correspondence between councillors in Northampton, disclosed under Freedom of Information legislation, reveals that the rental vehicles were used to hold scooter discos.

Wheat at the farm of Nicole Berg in Washingtons Horse Heaven Hills shows signs of a drought so far in 2021, with a damaged curled head. Credit: Anna King / NW News Network Somber harvest: Crops may fail, cattle sold as the NW descends into drought By 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. “...