Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What ...

Investigative reporting that holds power accountable and creates real-world impact across the Pacific Northwest.

Investigative reporting that holds power accountable and creates real-world impact across the Pacific Northwest.

Investigative reporting that holds power accountable and creates real-world impact across the Pacific Northwest.

"Guarded by Predators" is a series by InvestigateWest exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and the system that shields them. The series launched on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, at ...

He and Joelene had waited nearly a year for news about his commutation petition — a relatively rare form of clemency that, if approved by the governor, would allow his early release from prison. In ...

At the same time, Adult Protective Services workers say they’re under growing pressure to close investigations quickly.

Alone on the couch in her rural Idaho living room, Cyndy Piez sat stunned waiting for news about her son. Then her phone dinged. Her 30-year-old son was fighting for his life. “On an IV and oxygen ...

In 2021, Washington lawmakers expanded the state's power to strip cops of their certification. In an effort to keep officers fired for certain types of misconduct out of law enforcement, they passed a ...

Before she was incarcerated in Oregon, Angela Kim had grown accustomed to not being in charge of her own life. Her husband of 15 years controlled the money, when she went to sleep and woke up, even ...

On Aug. 6, 2025, a Lynnwood police officer got a call from a social worker at a nearby hospital. A girl, hospitalized for suicidal ideation, wanted to make a report about being assaulted by her former ...

On a recent Saturday afternoon in May, a head-on collision on a main highway in southwest Idaho required two ambulances and all of the staff that Payette County Paramedics had available. Then another ...