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Columbia Insight: A small, historical family farm is now surrounded on all sides by data centers, as the farm owners struggle to make ends meet on a property that is now rezoned for industry.

Columbia Insight: Tribal leaders invite the public for a rare visit to a site of deep ancestral significance that is at risk of being overrun by a renewable energy facility likely to be used for powering a proposed data center.

Columbia Insight: Longtime Gorge resident Pat Arnold is a conservationist and stalwart leader for responsible development in Klickitat County.

The Seattle Times: Vi Nguyen describes the terrifying moment the Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft she was on suffered a blowout once a door plug tore off the fuselage.

Voice of America: Ten months after most of Oregon's Republican state senators ended a six-week boycott of the legislature, they’re facing steep consequences for their protest.

Columbia Insight: Porcupines appear to be experiencing a widespread decline, but reports are largely anecdotal because government agencies have little interest in, or resources for, studying the animals.

Columbia Insight: Alix Danielsen is at the forefront of an effort to reverse environment degradation caused by development and is leading a team to rehabilitate a section of a once-thriving salmon stream.

Voice of America: With voting underway in a tightly contested presidential race, election officials in the U.S. are facing additional challenges in the state of North Carolina, Washington and Oregon.

Voice of America: In the Pacific Northwest, one U.S. state is trying a novel approach to combatting opioid abuse — decriminalizing small amounts of hard drugs

Voice of America: Two-thirds of Americans say their country feels more divided than usual. In Oregon, some rural voters are pushing to leave their state.

Voice of America: Idaho has some of the toughest laws against abortion, and that may be having an impact on women who are trying to have babies.

Columbia Insight: Master botanist Barbara Robinson, whose spent her life protecting the unique ecosystem of the Columbia River Gorge, takes us on a wildflower hike.

Voice of America: One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, refugees fleeing the violence have settled around the world. We meet a mother and daughter who have settled in Oregon.

Voice of America: In this midterm election, in the traditionally progressive Pacific Northwest, conservative Republicans are challenge Democrats for what could be the first Republican governorship in Oregon in 40 years.

Columbia Insight: Hikers venture deep into a national forest in Washington to retrieve wildfire cameras as part of a study tracking fishers — elusive, weasel-like mammals brought back from the brink of extinction after 2008.

Columbia Insight: A massive habitat restoration project to restore the free passage of salmon and replant a native riparian forest on the Lower Columbia River is nearing completion.

Columbia Insight: Four years since a wildfire devastated tens of thousands of acres in the Columbia River Gorge, the woodlands are struggling to rebound with native growth — overtaken by invasives and noxious weeds.

Columbia Insight: The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Central Oregon have faced a multi-year drinking water crisis — the result of aging infrastructure and a lack of state and federal funding.

Columbia Insight: London Fletcher, 13, is an authority on marine life and an undaunted spokesperson for the movement to breach the Snake River dams to ensure the continuation of Southern Resident orcas in the Salish Sea.

Voice of America: A police academy in Washington state has incorporated what’s known as “brain training” as a part of its curriculum.

Voice of America: Recent protests on the streets of Portland, Oregon featured confrontations between demonstrators and federal agents deployed to the city by the Trump administration.

Voice of America: Right-wing groups and anti-fascist counterprotesters faced off in the streets of Portland, Oregon as police struggled to avert violence.

Voice of America: Georgia’s gubernatorial race between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican (and Secretary of State) Brian Kemp becomes marred in accusations of voter suppression.

Brut: A former Ku Klux Klan member joins his Muslim friend for Iftar Dinner and discusses his path to overcoming Islamophobia.

CNN: Phyllis Omido has spent several years battling the Kenyan government to save a village poisoned by toxic lead emissions from a factory — despite the danger this activism poses on her safety.

Voice of America: After the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, students throughout the US are holding rallies in support of tighter gun laws. But not all students support such measures.

Voice of America: Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore face off in a special election for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

CNN: An elementary school in West Baltimore uses meditation in place of detention, sending kids to a quiet space to stretch, do yoga and practice emotional regulation.

CNN: Facing a life as a teenage bride as an Afghan refugee in Iran, Sonita Alizadeh did the only thing she knew how: she rapped about it, and fled the arrangement to the U.S. to pursue a future in music.