Alanna Mayham

2 months ago | wweek.com | Alanna Mayham

Everything grows back bigger and better in the spring, and the Portland EcoFilm Festival is no exception. PEFF screens movies emphasizing how film intersects with global ecology and Indigenous perspectives from around the world. It began in 2013 as a signature program of the Hollywood Theatre, but also shows on select nights at Cinema 21 across the Willamette River for the first time in its history.

Jun 7, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Alanna Mayham

Seattle Pacific University can now continue some claims against Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson after his office began investigating the school’s ban on hiring LGBTQ+ staff. SEATTLE (CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel cut Seattle Pacific University a break Friday morning by partially reviving its First Amendment challenge against Washington state’s investigation of the religious school’s homophobic hiring practices.

Jun 2, 2024 | savingseafood.org | Alanna Mayham

June 2, 2024 — Environmental groups sued the federal government on Thursday for concluding that an 807-mile pipeline project across Alaska would not harm imperiled polar bears and Arctic whale species. The Ninth Circuit complaint filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club challenges two biological opinions by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for a new liquified natural gas project called the Alaska LNG Project.

May 30, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Alanna Mayham

It only took six hours for an Idaho jury to decide that doomsday author Chad Daybell was guilty of murdering his previous wife and the two youngest children of his mistress, Lori Vallow Daybell. (CN) — A 12-person jury convicted doomsday author Chad Daybell of eight felonies on Thursday, including those involving the first-degree murders of his previous wife and the two youngest children of his mistress, Lori Vallow Daybell.

May 30, 2024 | courthousenews.com | Alanna Mayham

(CN) — Environmental groups sued the federal government on Thursday for concluding that an 807-mile pipeline project across Alaska would not harm imperiled polar bears and Arctic whale species. The Ninth Circuit complaint filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club challenges two biological opinions by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for a new liquified natural gas project called the Alaska LNG Project.