Yakima Valley

Loza Farms in Yakima Valley found success through its relationships with brewers. Now a new generation wants to boost other POC-owned businesses.

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.

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

Jose Martinez has picked America's food for decades. With all that experience on different farms, he saw workers lacking labor protections. Now he works to give farmworkers more rights.

Rosalinda Guillen sits at the kitchen table in her childhood home, and wrinkles her nose. “Hey, this water stinks,” Guillen said.Guillen and her brother…

Adeline Guerra is a 19-year old nursing student at Washington State University Tri-Cities, and is one of 1.4 million people living and working in the U...

The Northwest wine industry and the region’s grapevines are both getting older.Many of the distinct wine grape-growing regions are now celebrating 30…