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Hallie Golden

Hallie Golden is a freelance journalist based in Seattle

July 2021

  • Red lesions and white fungus on the salmons’ bodies are the result of high water temperatures and stress.

    Video shows salmon injured by unlivable water temperatures after heatwave

    A conservation group recorded the video after a heatwave in the Pacific north-west on a day when water temperatures breached 70F
  • Student Abdi Yusuf at Seattle Central Community College

    ‘I have a future’: how Biden’s free community college plan could transform education

    Advocates argue the proposal would open doors to students who have historically been excluded from higher education and boost the economy
  • Firefighters deal with extreme conditions as Bootleg Fire expands, in Oregon<br>Thick smoke causes the sun to glow red over an abandoned farmhouse as the Bootleg Fire expands to over 200,000 acres, near Beatty, Oregon, U.S., July 13, 2021. Picture taken July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Mathieu Lewis-Rolland

    Heat exhaustion, apocalyptic scenes: what it’s like fighting the US’s biggest wildfire

    Matthew Montoya, as told to Hallie Golden
    I’m proud to take on devastating blazes. But sometimes I wonder if anyone else sees the scale of the crisis

June 2021

  • U.S. Pacific Northwest faces heat wave<br>A person carries bags of ice during an unprecedented heat wave in Portland, Oregon, U.S. June 27, 2021. REUTERS/Maranie Staab

    The ‘heat dome’ explained: why the Pacific north-west is facing record temperatures

    Portland and Seattle are among cities grappling with 100F-plus days in a typically moderate climate
  • Record-high heat is forecast in the Pacific north-west this weekend.

    US Pacific north-west braces for ‘unprecedented’ sweltering heatwave

    Oregon, Washington and Idaho could surpass their all-time heat records for June in unusual weather event
    • US politics live
      Joe Biden signs bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday – as it happened

    • ‘Targeted for violence’: the dangers LGBTQ+ Native Americans face

    • Salmon face extinction throughout the US west. Blame these four dams

May 2021

  • People hold signs reading ‘Manual Ellis is Tacoma’s George Floyd’ and ‘Justice for Manuel Ellis’ in Tacoma, Washington last June.

    Three Tacoma police officers charged in killing of Manuel Ellis

  • Illinois students try to keep Chief alive despite decades of criticism<br>Student Omar Cruz, 20, inside the State Farm Center as he portrays Chief Illiniwek during halftime at a University of Illinois basketball game on February 28, 2016, in Champaign, Ill. Chief Illiniwek was the official mascot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but was retired in 2007 after controversy involving the NCAA and several Native American groups. An unofficial group still names a student to act as the Chief at select games. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

    ‘It’s derogatory’: one man’s four-decade fight against his town’s Native ‘mascot’

April 2021

  • Deb Haaland announced the formation of the Missing &amp; Murdered Unit just two weeks after being sworn in.

    ‘Suddenly I’m breathing’: hope as Haaland takes on crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans

  • FILE - In this June 15, 2018 file photo, twenty dollar bills are counted in North Andover, Mass. A small change in spending habits may improve your chances of reaching your savings goals. Researchers have found that so-called middle savers set aside about 3% more of their salary than low savers. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

    If you pay them, they will come: the US city giving tourists cash to visit

March 2021

  • Dr. Amy Portacci, an osteopath with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, reaches out to catch a baseball as she plays catch with a colleague in the outfield of T-Mobile Park, the home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, Monday, March 22, 2021, in Seattle. The Mariners invited health care workers to play catch Monday so they could experience the ballpark ahead of Opening Day on April 1, 2021, and as a way of saying thanks to workers throughout the region who have battled the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

    'The earlier you act, the more impact': how Seattle tech industry led on Covid

    Technology companies rallied to apply their expertise as King county went from the US center of the pandemic to one of the country’s lowest death rates
  • Deb Haaland, center, with Kamala Harris, right, during Haaland’s swearing-in for interior secretary in Washington DC on 18 March.

    'She's representing all of us': the story behind Deb Haaland's swearing-in dress

    The skirt, a traditional Native garment, outshone everything in the Eisenhower building – and there is a story of empowerment and survival behind it
    • This land is your land
      Avid Black hiker hopes to ‘break down stereotypes’ with 1,200-mile trek

    • Coronavirus live
      Greece extends lockdown – as it happened

    • Up to 18 US states haven’t prioritized Covid vaccines for homeless, study finds

February 2021

  • Bev Belgau receives her first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in Sequim, Washington.

    Covid 'angels': the volunteers helping at-risk strangers get vaccinated

    Thousands of Washington state residents have found vaccine appointments with help from a Facebook group
  • ‘Our people are born with a spiritual connection to the land that we all feel and we all know and our elders teach us about,’ said Willa Powless, Klamath Tribes’ council member at large.

    This land is your land
    'Piecing together a broken heart': Native Americans rebuild territories they lost

    Tribes across the US are buying back land lost during and after the colonization period on the open market
  • *** BESTPIX *** Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Lies In Honor At U.S. Capitol<br>*** BESTPIX *** WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 03: U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) attends a congressional tribute to the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick who lies in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on February 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. Officer Sicknick died as a result of injuries he sustained during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He will lie in honor until February 3 and then be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

    US politics live with Joan E Greve
    Liz Cheney retains House leadership role as vote on rightwing congresswoman's post looms – as it happened

    Congresswoman could be punished over racist and fringe beliefs, while Nancy Pelosi mocks Kevin McCarthy as member of the ‘Q’ party – follow live
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