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President-elect Trump announced he wants Governor Doug Burgham as interior secretary. The Interior Department oversees the federal government’s treaty obligations to tribes.
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Tens of millions of dollars raised by a landmark climate law in Washington state will go to Native American tribes that are at risk from climate change and rising sea levels.
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For nearly a decade, the Quinault Indian Nation has faced rising sea levels that have forced them to relocate residents and civic buildings in Taholah to higher ground.
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A Washington state task force voted to recommend the return of land at a former youth detention facility to the Chinook Indian Nation. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the fiscal committees of the legislature will review the task force report in June and make a decision.
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The Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state is gradually moving the village of Taholah away from a rising Pacific Ocean. Other communities in the U.S. may need to take a similar approach.
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Irreversible sea-level rise is among the permanent consequences of human-caused climate change. That’s one of the findings of the new report out this week…
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Wind and rain hammer the coast in the early morning hours at Copalis Beach in Ocean City. But Dawn Radonski is already out in her waders, waiting for the…
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A federal judge has ruled that production of the world’s first genetically engineered salmon was allowed to go ahead without the required evaluation of…
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“Extinction is not an option.”That’s the headline on a statement released Thursday by the Quinault Indian Nation, as the tribe formally announced its…
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The Chehalis River has flooded 18 times in the past 20 years, sometimes submerging Interstate 5 near Olympia. The local Flood Control Zone District is…