News Calls, texts to helplines surge amid COVID-19 Over the course of the stay-at-home order, the federal Disaster Distress Hotline alone has seen calls from Washington state increase sevenfold. by Dean Russell & Jamie Smith Hopkins & Sally Deneen InvestigateWest / April 24, 2020
Mental health support can't keep up with wildfires or hurricanes As climate change drives more and more disasters, mental health support is in greater need than ever. America is not ready. by Dean Russell & Jamie Smith Hopkins & Molly Taft & Sally Deneen Columbia Journalism Investigations, Center for Public Integrity and InvestigateWest / September 23, 2020
Environment Can tribes sue the government over climate change? Tribal nations' efforts to force the U.S. to honor treaty rights could bolster environmental protections. by Anna V. Smith High Country News / May 21, 2019
Politics Trump could turn back clock on tribal land ownership Tessa Plainfeather and Emily Moccasin embrace in front of their grandmother’s home on the Crow Reservation in Montana. The reservation is one of the 20 tribes with a lot of land that will still be... by Anna V. Smith for High Country News / August 27, 2017
Tech How former Seahawk Ricardo Lockette got religion on science Former Seahawks wide receiver Ricardo Lockette poses with school kids at the Washington STEM conference. by Michelle Ranken / January 30, 2017
Politics Wanted: a few (hundred) good computer science teachers by Michelle Ranken / January 16, 2017
Equity Black Student Union is back at Rainier Beach Members of the Black Student Union at Rainier Beach High School. by Michelle Ranken / April 24, 2017
Politics Disorder in the Court: GOP wants to break up the 9th Circuit The interior of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco by Anna V. Smith for High Country News / March 21, 2017