John Ryan

2 weeks ago | kuow.org | John Ryan

An infrared image from about 1:40 a.m. on Nov. 24, 2022, shows a person running beneath a transmission tower inside a Bonneville Power Administration substation in Oregon City, Oregon. FBI Portland A Tacoma man has been charged with sabotaging six electrical substations in western Washington in 2022. Zachary Rosenthal, 33, is charged with conspiring to destroy the high-voltage equipment in Oakville, Puyallup, Toledo, Tumwater, and Woodland, Washington, in 2022.

3 weeks ago | kuow.org | John Ryan

Rush-hour traffic on Interstate 5 on Nov. 4, 2019, from Northeast 92nd Street in Seattle. KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced measures Tuesday to cut the city’s stubborn carbon emissions, including more electric-vehicle charging stations and a program for e-cargo bike deliveries. For more than 20 years, mayors have been announcing actions to tame Seattle’s climate impacts, with mixed results.

1 month ago | kuow.org | Scott Greenstone |John Ryan

The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied a request from Washington state last week to help pay for damage caused during a storm last year. In November 2024, about two weeks after the election, winds from a cyclone struck the Pacific Northwest, pelting Washington with gusts over 70 miles per hour. Trees fell on power lines and hundreds of homes and businesses, shattering the window of an Amtrak train and damaging highways.

1 month ago | kuow.org | John Ryan

A kokanee salmon heads upstream in Ebright Creek above Washington's Lake Sammamish on Nov. 26, 2024. KUOW Photo/John Ryan The Trump White House wants to eliminate several programs that benefit Pacific salmon, the iconic but widely threatened species of the Pacific Northwest. Much of the effort to keep Pacific salmon from disappearing is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

1 month ago | spokanepublicradio.org | Owen Henderson |John Ryan |James Dawson |Doug Nadvornick

"Wealth taxes" off the table in budget talks in OlympiaWashington legislative Democrats say they’ll give up on efforts to impose so-called “wealth taxes” in their effort to craft a two-year budget that balances. The Northwest News Network reports the governor has made it clear he won’t sign a budget that includes a tax levied on stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other financial assets held by the state’s richest citizens.