In a reversal that likely transfers authority to EPA headquarters, southwest Alaska's Pebble Mine gets closer to being built despite concerns for the bay's productive fisheries.
Native women disappear and are murdered at alarming rates, but many aren't even accounted for. By hosting community data-gathering events, the Seattle Indian Health Board hopes to address the crisis.
An attempt to recognize the Duwamish Tribe as a sovereign nation within the course of study failed.
A report by the Washington State Patrol documented 20 cases of missing Indigenous women in Yakima County, the most in the state. A scholar who is a Yakama tribal member reflects on the dire situation.
The project will dramatically increase tanker traffic in the Salish Sea, and with it the risk of a major spill.
