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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.  “See how t...

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Both are 2021 Teachers of the Year in the Killeen Independent School District. The Elementary Teacher of the Year is James Cook, a fifth-grade teacher at Cedar Valley Elementary School. The Secondary Teacher of the Year winner is Tracy King, a special education teacher at Manor Middle School. In a livestreamed event on KISD-TV Tuesday, two groups of district representatives surprised the elementary and secondary teacher of the year in back-to-back presentations at the teachers’ homes. Resp...

A window into the ocean: New SeaLife Rescue Center helps injured marine animals Slow down--not every seal pup needs your help! Some seals are just plump, happy and resting. But how can you help the others? We hear from SR3, a new center thats striving to provide care for injured and sick marine life, about what you can do to help! Then, moving through the world both invisible and hypervisible is a difficult reality for author Reagan Jackson, she tells us about her new book. Also, what should ha...

And so, it was on Saturday night when I attended the Waimumu Art Exhibition artists’ night as a plus one. It was a bit of a journey from Invercargill and fortunately this time, I did not get lost. From the moment I got out of my car I was enveloped in an experience that was carefully curated by a team who have a winning formula. Outside the hall were light panels that lead you into the exhibition through a small foyer complete with native bird song. Once inside the hall, hosts Debbie, Joc...

Jazz Halfmoon, 38, remembers playing the educational video game Oregon Trail as a reward for doing well in class. "It was on a super-old computer," she says. "The green screen was like the only color." She says it was really exciting, and the kids would often clamor and fight over who could play the game at their school on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, in northeast Oregon. Halfmoon says, "I remember being like, Oh, like the Indians killed off somebody in your wagon...

3 slides Credit: Anna King/NW News Network As Easterday Family Property Is Auctioned, Giant Buyers Attracted To Water-Rich Deal May 04, 2021 Redtail hawks glide off telephone poles sailing above verdant fields that scoop downward along a basalt slope to the bending Columbia River. This unique swath of ground is about to get a new owner; the roughly 12,000 Easterday family acres in Benton County are to be auctioned off starting in mid-June.  The crisis that began with a...

GO NZ: Mothers Day treat ideas and best restaurants around New Zealand 4 May, 2021 03:07 AM 5 minutes to read Treat mum at tītī, Dunedin. Photo / Supplied NZ Herald Anna King Shahab This Mothers Day, whether youre treating your mum, the mother of your children, patting yourself on the back for doing the mum thing, or perhaps seeking a treat to perk you up on a day that gives rise to some heavy emotions, there are plenty of deliciously fitting culinary experiences up and down the country. Dune...

Originally published on April 29, 2021 2:25 pm At Hanford, a hazardous concoction of radioactive waste and chemicals sits in World War II and Cold War-era tanks. Now one of those old tanks has a serious leak. CREDIT: Anna King/N3 READ ON BY ANNA KING / N3 & NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS / AP At Hanford, a hazardous concoction of radioactive waste and chemicals sits in World War II and Cold War-era tanks. Now one of those old tanks has a serious leak. The U.S. Department of Energy which manages Hanford...

3 slides Credit: Courtesy of Vanessa Delgado Its Complicated: why some Northwest Latinx residents and farmworkers hesitate on Covid Vaccine By 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., but helped her father, Victor Delgado, get a vaccine close to his home in Benton County, Wash. “In my own personal experience, it’s been very complicated,â€...