Community and Economic Development

For two taxing days last week, our region withered under record-breaking temperatures. Now, following cooler temps, hot weather is back.

Family forest owners and managers in western Washington invited to learn how to plan, manage and protect their forests at the Westside Family Forest Owners Field Day.

With temperatures shooting up to 110 degrees in parts of Washington state, people are at increased risk of suffering from heatstroke – the most serious of heat-related illnesses.

The last meaningful rainfall in the Inland Northwest was on June 21, and the National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning.

Food professionals and budding snack entrepreneurs can learn how to develop extruded food products at an “Extrusion Processing Short Course.”

There’s a 70 percent chance of El Nino conditions from December through February, according to the U.S. Climate Prediction Center.

Engineers at WSU’s Laboratory for Atmospheric Research are using a computer modeling system to predict air pollution levels for the Pacific Northwest, including wildfire smoke.

TWISP, Wash. – It’s a truism among small business consultants everywhere that if you want to grow your business beyond the equivalent of subsistence farming, you need to work on your business, not in it.

A historical look at Fourth of July weather in eastern Washington. Find out your odds for good weather.

Solstice to deliver 16 hours of sunlight to the Pacific Northwest on Thursday, compared to only 13 hours, 45 minutes in Miami. So open the curtains and grab an iced tea.