In February, students from King Danylo University in Ukraine were scheduled to begin a business tourism class offered in conjunction with Washington State University. The timing was all wrong but the Ukrainian students persevered, some even found the class a welcome escape.

Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins discusses his reporting on cases where parents decide to send their children with developmental disabilities to out-of-state, therapeutic boarding schools after exhausting their options in Washington. He found these cases highlight institutional gaps in key support services for these families, a problem only made worse during the pandemic.

A subset of staff at the massive video game company Activision Blizzard voted to join the Communication Workers of America. The vote comes as Activision Blizzard is being purchased by Microsoft.

U.S. Department of Energy officials have released an environmental study for the Versatile Test Reactor, a proposed nuclear test reactor to be built in eastern Idaho that backers say is needed to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants. It would be the first new test reactor built in the U.S. in decades.

Amazon is planning to sublease some of its warehouse space because the pandemic-fueled surge in online shopping has slowed. That surge helped the e-commerce giant rake in soaring profits in the past two years. But as the worst of the pandemic eased, Amazon found itself with too much warehouse space and too many workers.