Anna King
Anna King is a senior correspondent for Northwest Public Broadcasting. She calls Richland, Washington home and loves unearthing great stories about people in the Northwest.
As a correspondent for the Northwest News Network, Anna's covered the Tri-Cities and Mid-Columbia region, from nuclear reactors to Mexican rodeos.
The South Sound was her girlhood backyard and she knows its rocky beaches, mountain trails and cities well. She left the west side to attend Washington State University and spent an additional two years studying language and culture in Italy.
While not on the job, Anna enjoys trail running, clam digging, hiking and wine tasting with friends. She's most at peace on top a Northwest mountain with her husband Andy Plymale and their muddy Aussie-dog Poa.
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In southeast Washington state, both farmers and farmworkers are contemplating the new Trump administration. But their worries about the future are often not the same. -
President Donald Trump's administration will have to face one of our state's thorniest environmental problems: radioactive waste warehoused in southeast Washington.
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A conservative policy roadmap — and past actions from the new president's first term — could offer clues as to what he might have in store for one of the most radioactive places in the world. -
Washington state and two federal agencies have finalized a deal on how to clean up the radioactive tank waste in Hanford. -
The two missing crew members of the EA-18G Growler crash are deceased, the U.S. Navy said Sunday. -
Investigations into two people killed, and another two shot at the Beyond Wonderland festival in 2023 are still ongoing. Families of the deceased have sued Live Nation. -
Cherry season is upon us as the summer weather warms up east of the Cascades. -
Over production of almonds has dropped prices and crushed the once-lucrative industry. Now, that’s a buzzkill for Northwest beekeepers that usually send millions of hives to California. -
New research out of Washington State University says that colonies of bees that fly in warm weather during fall and winter die quicker for lack of forage. -
Farmers in the Yakima and Kittitas valleys will be some of the hardest hit by Washington state’s declared drought. They might only get about 54% of their normal water this summer.
