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Tacoma shelters face $10M shortfall after pandemic funds end
As the American Rescue Plan Act expires, the resulting budget gap equals more than 300 emergency beds for those experiencing homelessness.
Ashli Blow
Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal
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Culture
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s new guard brings diversity center stage
Seattle’s largest dance company is at a turning point with a fall roster that’s younger and 50 percent BIPOC.
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Local Armenians seek community, support in Redmond
Allies in the Pacific Northwest gather to raise awareness and funds amid ongoing attacks in Artsakh, a region in Azerbaijan.
Environment
Why isn’t the Pacific Coastal rainforest treated like the Amazon?
Authors of a new book say the 2,500-mile-long ecosystem stores more carbon than other forests — but its lack of an ‘inspiring’ name is keeping it in the dark.
News
What WA leaders are watching for in the Manuel Ellis police trial
Members of law enforcement, community organizers and more weigh in on the trial of three Tacoma officers charged in the 2020 death of Ellis.